Kharkiv thrash Obolon in dominant 5-0 victory

Kharkiv secured a comfortable 5-0 victory over Obolon in a match that was effectively over before the half-hour mark. The hosts capitalized on their superior numbers to dismantle the visitors.

The turning point arrived in the 7th minute when Roman Volokhatyi received his second yellow card, reducing Obolon to ten men. Itodo stepped up to convert the resulting penalty just two minutes later. The floodgates opened quickly thereafter, with Parako, Zabergdza, and Krupskyi adding three more goals by the 24th minute. Itodo completed his brace just before the halftime whistle.

Kharkiv: Yermakov — Krupskyi, Salyuk (Profini, 46), Shabanov (Dubko, 71), Smolyakov — Gadzhiev, Kalyuzhnyi, Pavlyuk, Zabergdza (Castillo, 59) — Parako (Arevalo, 71), Itodo (Antyukh, 46).

Obolon: Fedorivskyi — Medynskyi (Zhovtenko, 29), Yermakov, Prokopchuk, Polehenko — Volokhatyi, Chekh (Shostak, 46) — Shulyanskyi (Shevchenko, 81), Slobodyan, Matkevych (Moroz, 29) — Sukhanov (Ustymenko, 72).