Fresh off the back of their Champions League thrashing of RB Leipzig, Shakhtar Donetsk continued their unbeaten start to the Ukrainian Premier League season with a last gasp win over Chornomorets Odessa. Goals from former Hoops flop Marian Shved and Oleg Ocheretko cancelled out Maksym Bragaru's early opener to give Igor Jovićević side all three points deep into second half stoppage time.
Shakhtar host Celtic in Warsaw on Wednesday in match day two of Europe's elite competition as they look to try cement their place in the knockout stage. And Ange Postecoglou's men will be fresh and ready for the tie after having their Scottish Premiership clash with Livingston called off due to the sad passing of Her Majesty, The Queen on Thursday.
The Ukrainians preparations got off to the worst possible start as Bragaru opened the scoring for the visitors after just ten minutes. Shakhtar pushed for an equaliser but struggled to muster any clear cut attempts at Dmytro Nepogodov in the Odessa goal despite dominating the bulk of possession. They were resulted into trying to break down a resolute defence with crosses into the box and almost ended up two goals down when the visitors had a gilt-edged chance fired narrowly wide before going in one behind at the break.
