Match preview Premier League: Inhulets - Shakhtar Donetsk at Stadion Zirka

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sun 13.December
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Zirka (14628 seats)

Struggling Inhulets will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Shakhtar Donetsk in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Inhulets have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals (30) in Premier League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Champions League. That game was also an away game, at Inter. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Inhulets form and stats

Inhulets have collected 8 points from their Premier League home games so far after 1-5-1.

Inhulets manager S. Lavrynenko and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Lviv (placed 13th) in the Premier League. Previous to that game, a home match hosting Olimpik Donetsk in a game that was won 2-1.

Inhulets are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 7 goals in 7 games. On the other hand, Inhulets have conceded 8 goals.

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Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats

Playing away, Shakhtar Donetsk, who have the most scored goals (30) in Premier League, have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premier League this season. Shakhtar has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Inter in their previous outing. The Champions League match ended in a draw 0-0. Before that, Shakhtar secured a home win against Minai with the score 5-1.

Shakhtar are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 9 times in 5 away games so far. Shakhtar Donetsk have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

InhuletsM. Bartulović
M. Bartulović
4 goals
Shakhtar DonetskV. Kovalenko
V. Kovalenko
4 goals
Shakhtar DonetskA. Lourenço
A. Lourenço
4 goals

Inhulets missing players

Shakhtar Donetsk missing players

Inhulets Shakhtar Donetsk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
12 7 2 Played P 2 5 12
1 1 0 Won W 1 2 7
8 5 1 Drew D 1 3 5
3 1 1 Lost L 0 0 0
13 7 1 Scored S 2 9 30
17 8 3 Conceded C 1 5 11
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
92% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 80% 92%
25% 14% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 58%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 50%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 25%
75% 86% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 60% 75%
8% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 40% 25%
25% 14% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.8 3.9 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.2 1.5
3 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
11.3 10.9 11.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 9.8 13.8
3 2.9 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.6 6.5
36% 35% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 39% 38%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Inhulets's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Inhulets have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Inhulets haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals (30) in Premier League
  • Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Premier League
  • Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals in the second half (17) in Premier League
  • Shakhtar Donetsk has the the best goal difference (+19) in Premier League
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have not yet lost a game.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have scored more than double the goals of Inhulets.
  • Shakhtar Donetsk haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dynamo Kyiv 12 9 2 1 23 8 6 3 2 1 7 5 6 6 0 0 16 3 15 29
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 12 7 5 0 30 11 7 5 2 0 21 6 5 2 3 0 9 5 19 26
3 Desna 12 5 5 2 16 11 6 4 1 1 10 5 6 1 4 1 6 6 5 20
4 Vorskla 12 5 4 3 16 9 4 3 1 0 10 2 8 2 3 3 6 7 7 19
5 Zorya 11 4 5 2 21 10 6 2 3 1 10 5 5 2 2 1 11 5 11 17
6 Kolos Kovalivka 12 4 5 3 16 14 7 2 4 1 10 6 5 2 1 2 6 8 2 17
7 Oleksandria 12 4 4 4 19 16 7 4 2 1 15 9 5 0 2 3 4 7 3 16
8 Olimpik Donetsk 11 5 1 5 19 19 7 3 1 3 13 13 4 2 0 2 6 6 0 16
9 Mariupol 12 4 4 4 14 17 1 0 0 1 1 2 11 4 4 3 13 15 -3 16
10 Inhulets 12 1 8 3 13 17 7 1 5 1 7 8 5 0 3 2 6 9 -4 11
11 Minai 11 2 3 6 8 22 6 2 1 3 4 10 5 0 2 3 4 12 -14 9
12 Dnipro-1 12 2 2 8 15 24 7 1 1 5 7 12 5 1 1 3 8 12 -9 8
13 Lviv 11 2 2 7 7 25 5 1 1 3 4 12 6 1 1 4 3 13 -18 8
14 Rukh Vynnyky 12 0 6 6 8 22 6 0 4 2 4 7 6 0 2 4 4 15 -14 6

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The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of football in Ukraine. It was created in 1991 as Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union. Twelve teams play each other twice in a 22 match regular season to create a league table. The table then splits in half resulting in a Championship round and a Relegation round, each playing ten more fixtures.