Friendly Roundup: LNZ Double Up, Kryvbas Fall Short in Netherlands

Ukrainian Premier League sides continued their preseason preparations for the 2026/27 campaign with a series of friendlies on Saturday, July 11. Kryvbas traveled to the Netherlands to face Belgian side Zulte Waregem but came away with a 2-1 loss. The Ukrainian team conceded just past the half-hour mark and, after equalizing early in the second half through a Yurchec penalty, could not hold on. Panduro grabbed the winner for Zulte Waregem late on. Zulte Waregem 2-1 Kryvbas Goals: Lemoine 31, Panduro 89 — Yurchec 47 (pen.) Kryvbas lineup: Kemkin, Yurchec, Vilivald, trialist, Borges, Shevchenko, Navi, Kamenskyi, Herbert, Sek, trialist. Subs: Khoma, Sychov, trialist, Jones, Chernushkin, trialist, Bekavac, Mayakov, Kononykhin, Mashadu, Myronyuk, Butenko, Bodnar, Mulyk. LNZ had a much brighter day in Slovenia, posting two wins. First, they thumped Hungarian club MTK Budapest 4-0, then edged Slovenian side Olimpija Ljubljana 1-0. MTK Budapest 0-4 LNZ Goals: David 59, trialist 72, Tsara 85, Talles 90 LNZ vs MTK: Samoilenko, Daiko, trialist, Roman, Khamko (Smotrytskyi 57), Donyk (Miklyash 57), Talles, Pastukh, Bennett (Matkivskyi 31), Tsara, Kravchuk (David 46) Olimpija Ljubljana 0-1 LNZ Goal: Tverdokhlib 25 LNZ vs Olimpija: Ledvii (Palamarchuk 46), Muravskyi, Horin, Drumbaiiev, Kytela, Kuzyk, Riabov, Yashari (Pastukh 23), Tverdokhlib (Donyk 69), Mykytyshyn, Assinor (Kravchuk 69) Also in Slovenia, Karpaty beat local side Bravo 1-0 thanks to a Karabin strike in the 68th minute. Bravo 0-1 Karpaty Goal: Karabin 68 Karpaty: Zhylkin, Sych, Bahohlo, Stetskov, Tsymbalistyi, Sapuha, Reznik, Mokha, Karabin, Rusyn, Diedov. Second-half subs: Liakh, Shakh, Marchenko, Kholod, Chachua, Miroshnichenko, Kokodyniak, Hlots, Alkaïn, Eriki, Kostenko. In Slovakia, Bukovyna shared a 1-1 draw with Zemplín. Both goals came in the first half. Zemplín 1-1 Bukovyna Goals: Lemishko 35 (pen.) — Putrya 12 Bukovyna first half: Penkov, Busko, Pryimak, Skochelias, Stasiuk, Vitenchuk, Klepach, Zaderaka, Dubovyk, Putrya, Kozhushko. Second half: Kanevtsev, Ilin, Karas, Bezuhlyi, Stasiuk, Hrusha, Babak, Petrov, Pidlepenets, Putrya, Voitikhovskyi. On home soil, Livyi Bereh crushed Kudrivka 4-0 in Kyiv region. Livyi Bereh 4-0 Kudrivka Goals: Shastal 9 (pen.), N. Voloshyn 18, Wendell 54, trialist 63 Livyi Bereh first half: Zhmurko — Kovalenko, Banada, Samar, Sidney — Kosovskyi, trialist, V. Voloshyn, Vorobchak, Shastal — N. Voloshyn. Second half: Ihnatenko — Kotukha, Chepurnyi, Bondarenko, Bonsu — Tishchenko, D. Enrike, Hunichev, Haloyan, Wendell — trialist. Kudrivka: Yashkov, Macheliuk, Serdiuk, Potimkov, Melnychuk, Dumaniuk, trialist, Bieliaiev, Svitiukha, Owusu, trialist. Subs: Lavuta, Viktor, Vekliak, trialist, Oharkov, trialist, trialist, Smyrnyi, Verlei, trialist, trialist.