It was an important win for Shakhtar Donetsk against Young Boys at the Veltins-Arena, the home of Schalke. Shakhtar won 2-1 and Sudakov was no doubt the man of the match. After a poor pass lead to Young Boys taking a surprise lead, Sudakov then created Shakhtar's opening goal, as he ran down the left wing towards goal and excellently crossed the ball for Zubkov to tap the ball into the net. But Sudakov would then go on to score himself, with a lovely effort. Sudakov played a clever one-two pass with a team-mate, Sudakov then skilfully skipped past a tackle challenge by the Young Boys defender, ran towards goal and then unleashed a lovely strike from outside the area, that found the back of the net at the far post. The Young Boys keeper Keller had little chance in keeping that effort out and Sudakov's goal would prove to be the winning goal for Shakhtar Donetsk.
In a country where the war is still ongoing and Ukrainian clubs do not have the luxury of playing on their home ground, a win like Shakhtar just had is a real achievement. It was also good to see that Shakhtar played well with a team mainly comprised of young Ukrainians, namely 8 in the starting line-up, which bodes well for football in the country.