Dynamo Kiev-Lazio: lineups and TV schedules. European debut for Baroni

Hamburg, 25 September 2024 - The fifth day of the championship has also been archived, if the last week of continental football was dedicated to the start of the Champions League, this one instead is all ready for the start of the new Europa League. New format, the same as its "big sister", with 36 teams and eight games each to play against drawn opponents, one at home and one away, selecting two teams from each reference group during the pairings. Defending the colours of the Serie A, there will be the two Roman teams, with Lazio, the first to take to the field. Today in fact the boys of FRAME Baroni will debut against the Dynamo Kiev in the away game on neutral ground in Hamburg at the Volksparkstadion. A stadium rich in history, with the local team capable of winning not only the Bundesliga, but also the Champions Cup, but which is now fighting to climb back up to the top German league. 

The Biancoceleste coach is expected at the pass, at his first career clash on the bench with Europe after so much apprenticeship in Italian football. A sort of leap in the dark for a team, like Lazio, always accustomed in the modern era to living annually with a double commitment. Precisely this inexperience of the Tuscan coach, who arrived after the two excellent salvations achieved with Lecce before and Verona then, it was one of the objections raised by the Lazio fans to his choice for the bench. His start in Serie A it has been up and down so far. The performances, in terms of quality, have practically never been lacking, but the team from the capital has lacked a bit of continuity, both between one match and another, and within the matches themselves, sometimes paying for some individual errors more heavily than the team would have deserved. The European debut (and the subsequent championship match) will be the litmus test of what the ambitions of the team from the capital could be: the dream is to return to Champions League, but as he said Fabiani In summer, revolutions cannot bear fruit immediately.

On the other side is a team whose ambitions have become more modest over the years. Dynamo Kiev is no longer the undisputed leader of the Ukrainian championship. For years now the white and blues of the capital have abdicated that role to Shakhtar Donetsk, and both at home and in Europe, the formation plays the role of outsider. In recent years, under the guidance of Mircea Lucescu, the Kiev team managed to break the hegemony of the orange and blacks Donetsk, but the success was fleeting, even if today it seems to have found its heir at home. Alexander Shovkovskiy has been the current coach of Dynamo since December 2023: former captain and goalkeeper of the team, he was part of the great Ukraine of Andriy Shevchenko, playing as a starter in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup against Italy, the highest point of the yellow-blue national team. As a leader on the pitch, the former goalkeeper has also shown himself capable on the bench, making his team play entertaining football, based on high pressing and quick verticalizations to enhance the talent of the attackers. A style of play that has earned him five wins and a draw, without defeats, in the first days of the championship, even coming within a whisker of qualifying for the Champions League via the preliminaries. An opponent therefore not to be underestimated in an accessible debut, but not as simple as it might initially seem.

For today's challenge the Uefa he appointed the Greek as the referee for the match Tasos Sidiropoulos. His assistants will be Kostaras (Greece) and Dimitriadis (Greece). Fourth official Fotias (Greece). At the VAR, instead, there will be Evangelou (Greece) together with the Belgian Van Driessche. The referee is among the most experienced of the Hellenic country and will be today at his fifth refereeing of his season. His third in the international arena, after having refereed a match of Countries League and also one of the qualifications for this Europe League, to which he adds two challenges Super League Hellenic. For the Greek race director this is the first meeting with the Lazio, while instead it boasts precedents with the yellow and red cousins ​​of L'Aquila, just as there is a past crossover with the Dynamo Kiev, dating back to the first day of theEuropa League 2013-14, when the Ukrainians lost 0-1 against Genk.

Probable lineups

The bitterness for the defeat in the championship against Fiorentina is still alive, for this reason we will not see any particular upheavals, even if some second line will surely be on the pitch. Provedel between the posts appears to be the favourite over Mandas, while only Romagnoli should be confirmed among the starters for the Franchi challenge. At the centre of the department he will be joined by Patric, while on the outside they will go Marusic e Pellegrini. In the median rovella e Vecino will give Guendouzi a day of rest, while forward Tchaouna, Dele Bashiru e Pedro will provide support to noslin. Initially only on the bench for Taty Castellanos. 

La Dynamo starts again from one of its leaders in the goalkeeper Bushchan, protected by the four-man line composed of Tymchyk e Vivcharenko on the lanes, the latter in a ballot with Dubinchak; while in the centre of the department there will be the young player born in 2005 Mykhavko with the Colombian Ceballos. In the median Brazhko e Shaparenko, while in the three-quarter line there will be Yarmolenko, with the captain Buyalskyi in the center e Kabaev on the left. In attack instead there is the powerful Vanat trying to make space for himself among the Lazio central defenders.

Lazio (4-2-3-1) Provedel; Marusic; Patric, Romagnoli, Pellegrini; Vecino, Rovella; Tchaouna, Dele-Bashiru, Pedro; Noslin. All. Marco Baroni.

Dynamo Kiev (4-2-3-1): Bushchan; Tymchyk, Ceballos, Mykhavko, Vivcharenko; Brazhko, Shaparenko; Yarmolenko, Buyakskyy, Kabaev; Vanat. All. Olesksandr Shovkovskyi.

Where to watch the match on TV

The match between Dinamo Kiev e Lazio of the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg, valid for the first day of the championship phase of Europa League, will start at 21pm on Wednesday 25 September 2024. There will be several options available to watch the match. The match will be visible on satellite on the platform Sky, to the channels Sky Sports One (channel 201) e Sky Sports channel 252. The match will also be available in streaming on NOW for those who have subscribed to the platform and on Sky Go for those who have a Sky subscription. You can follow the match by downloading the app on your smart TV or by connecting the TV to a PlayStation 4/5 console, Xbox, or to a TIMVISION BOX, an Amazon Fire TV Stick or Google Chromecast device. Viewing is also possible via the NOW app or website on tablets, PCs and smartphones. On Sky the commentary of the match valid for the first day of the championship phase of Europa League, will be entrusted to Maurizio Compagnoni and Luca Marchegiani.