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For [b]Dynamo Kyiv[/b], this has been a very odd year. At the halfway point of the Ukrainian season they trail Shakhtar Donetsk by five points [Shakhtar are 1.1 to win the title, and while they probably will win it, that is surely too short]. Dynamo lost their manager, Valeri Gazzaev, who protested that he was trying to build a team for three years time and never seemed to have the faith of Ihor Surkis, the club president. They went out of the Champions League in the qualifying round to Ajax. They drew at home to BATE Borisov and then lost to Sherriff in their first two games in the Europa League group stage. There was talk of traumatic times, of the need for a new direction, as there was two years ago before the appointment of [b]Yuri Semin[/b] as coach. And yet, almost despite themselves,...