UPL Fate: Relegation Predictions for 2023/24 Season
Predicting the results of the UPL season 23/24 is a thankless task; this draw turns out to be very unpredictable. But for fans, the abundance of sensations is only a plus! And a great reason to think and argue – with friends, colleagues or bookmakers.
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Let us remind you. 15th and 16th places are definitely relegated. 13th and 14th positions give the last chance to cling to the elite. Clashing with the third and fourth teams of the First League.
When predicting the losers, we offer odds from bookmakers for their direct relegation – that is, even without play-offs. So, let’s look at the main candidates.
Minai – 1.01
How many seasons has Minaj played in the UPL? For so many years he is regularly predicted to be relegated before the start of the Ukraine Premier League.
The team from Transcarpathia managed to escape, even taking last place. Such is the reality of Ukrainian football that opponents can unexpectedly withdraw from the competition. But you can’t be lucky forever, and this time, it seems, nothing will save the club.
Judge for yourself – by the winter the team had not bothered to win at least once. Six draws in fifteen matches would not have looked so bad if not for the previous thesis. The team that ruined the autumn part of the season was mostly disbanded. It is very doubtful that the new set will be of better quality, especially since the composition was not the most unknown.
Veres – 1.5
The People’s Club could have been relegated in the previous season. But was able to catch on in the play-offs. It left no chance for Zaporozhye Metallurg.
In winter, the team turned out to be penultimate. The same 6 draws as Minai, but with two victories. Despite the fact that 16 matches were played. In terms of points, they are equal with Zarya. But she has better additional indicators and has two fewer matches played.
The club from Rivne worked to strengthen its squad.Questions about its quality remain. These are either little-known free agents or very cheap purchases.
In fact, it’s not too late even to maintain your registration without participating in “joints,” but you will have to work hard for this.
Metalist 1925 – 2.3
To be honest, this choice by the bookmakers of the third most likely candidate for relegation looks very strange. First of all, because the team is not even in the zone of transition matches in winter – it is one point ahead of it, taking the saving twelfth place.
True, there is an important nuance: among the residents of the second half of the standings, only Kharkiv residents played all the required autumn matches, the rest have at least one match in reserve.
Moreover, Metalist 1925 recently acquired an investor whose intentions look very serious. The WhiteBIT crypto exchange has already contributed to the invitation to the post of coach of Viktor Skripnik, people such as Raymond Owusu (played for the coach in Zarya), Vladlen Yurchenko (another protégé and once a candidate for the national team) and Denis Garmash (a bit old, but in his mind exactly does not need). Loud successes are promised no earlier than next season, but won’t all these transitions help you stay in the elite?
With this approach, getting into the “joints” will already be a failure.
Obolon – 2.5
Even before the start of the season, the modest Kievites were considered one of the main contenders for relegation, but they are still staying afloat. The team met the winter in thirteenth place – this is a zone of transitional matches, but there is only one point to a safe twelfth position, plus an advantage over the competitor above in the form of a postponed match.
The Brewers only strengthened themselves in the offseason with free agents. Although there are no big names among them, these are not unknown people who have experience playing in the UPL.
Whether this will be enough to play in the elite next season is a question, because the handicap above the direct relegation zone is still an insignificant two points.
Zarya and Alexandria – 4.0 each
Last season, the UPL’s Luhansk team almost took silver in the championship with a ticket to the Champions League qualification, and the Alexandrians literally at the last moment lost fifth place and a pass to the Champions League along with it. Now these achievements seem like a forgotten dream – both clubs look like pale shadows of their former selves.
Regarding Zarya, bookmakers are still optimistic – she is considered only the fifth (together with Alexandria) candidate for direct relegation, although she ranks third from the bottom. Veres, which, according to the winter table, is relegated directly, lags behind only in additional indicators.
The Luhansk team has three postponed matches, but there are such opponents there that even one point scored would be an achievement. The team also held a training camp without a permanent coach, but at least the incoming transfers don’t look the worst.
Alexandria is much higher – in eleventh place, but upon closer examination we see only two points of advantage over the UPL play-off zone, and only four – before the abyss of direct relegation.
Ruslan Rotan is unable to improve the team’s play, but the transfers of several foreign players and Denis Kostyshin give hope that the club will not fall below the “joints”.
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