Champions League betting and spectator preview: Shakhtar Donetsk and RB Leipzig meet at Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Shakhtar Donetsk and RB Leipzig.
Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats
Shakhtar Donetsk was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Champions League.Shakhtar Donetsk are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego. 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games. 1W-3D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Shakhtar Donetsk.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Shakhtar, who played 2-2 against Oleksandria. That match was also played at this venue (Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego). Mudryk has scored in four matches in a row. Badass!
In the match before, 1-1 away to Celtic (Champions League).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Shakhtar Donetsk, as the Premier League home game vs Inhulets is only three days away.
A decent goal production from Shakhtar in their home games so far, with 11 goals from 6 league matches. Shakhtar Donetsk are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
RB Leipzig form and stats
Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the group stage.There's been little loot from RB Leipzig's travels as they have only collected 3 points from 6 away games in the Bundesliga. RB Leipzig only have 0 wins to counter their 3 defeats and 3 draws. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses both home and away.
Nkunku and Werner scored in RB Leipzig's previous match, the home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen that ended 2-0. Nkunku has found the net for the away team three games in a row. The know-how! The attacker Werner got a match rating of 7.94 in that game. Werner scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 21 successful passes (of 26 total).
Before that game, the win at home against Real Madrid in the Champions League (3-2).
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the RB Leipzig manager Rose as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Hoffenheim.
For Leipzig, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
These two sides met each other before this campaign: RB Leipzig - Shakhtar Donetsk 1-4. Shved likes to meet RB Leipzig and have scored 2 goals in these games.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Nkunku 9 goals |   M. Mudryk 4 goals |  D. Sikan 4 goals |
Shakhtar Donetsk missing players
RB Leipzig missing players
| Shakhtar Donetsk | RB Leipzig | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 7 | ||
| 48 | 21 | Scored | S | 18 | 55 | ||
| 29 | 8 | Conceded | C | 18 | 40 | ||
| 96% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 45% | 68% | ||
| 36% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 28% | ||
| 64% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 9% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 16% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 5.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.1 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 9.5 | 10.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.1 | 13.8 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.8 | 6.3 | ||
| 45% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 35% | ||
| 10.8 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 9.9 | ||
| 4.2 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | RB Leipzig | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Celtic | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -7 | 2 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dnipro-1 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 16 | 22 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 20 |
| 3 | Zorya | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 19 |
| 4 | Oleksandria | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 |
| 5 | Veres | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 6 | Metal Kharkiv | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | -2 | 13 |
| 7 | Kolos Kovalivka | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -1 | 12 |
| 8 | Vorskla | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -2 | 11 |
| 9 | Dynamo Kyiv | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 10 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -4 | 10 |
| 11 | Minai | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -3 | 9 |
| 12 | Rukh Vynnyky | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 13 | Hirnyk | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 14 | Lviv | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 5 |
| 15 | Inhulets | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 4 |
| 16 | Chornomorets | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -8 | 3 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | FC Bayern München | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 38 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 28 | 25 |
| 2 | Union Berlin | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 23 |
| 3 | Borussia Dortmund | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
| 4 | Freiburg | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 5 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | RB Leipzig | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 19 |
| 7 | Werder Bremen | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Mainz 05 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 18 |
| 9 | Hoffenheim | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| 10 | Borussia M'gladbach | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 16 |
| 11 | Köln | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 16 | -3 | 16 |
| 12 | Wolfsburg | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -2 | 14 |
| 13 | Augsburg | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -6 | 14 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | Stuttgart | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
| 16 | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 9 |
| 17 | Bochum | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 19 | -21 | 7 |
| 18 | Schalke 04 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -15 | 6 |
