It's only the second fixture in the Persha Liga for these contenders. And fresh optimism here at Stadion Ukrajina as Karpaty welcome Bukovyna. Get smart with this preview!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Karpaty form and stats
The previous season, Karpaty's league results were 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses, providing 5th place in the Second League: Group A. Over these eight matches they scored {12 goals} and conceded 16. Performing at their own stadium in the previous season Karpaty delivered 1-2-1 (win-draw-lost) with {4 goals} and 3 conceded. Karpaty have only played one Persha Liga game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat from 4 matches.
The fans hope that Karpaty will strike back in this game, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the Ukrainian Cup fixture against Prykarpattia.
Before that, Karpaty had a Persha Liga home game versus Khust City which ended with a victory 1-0.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Karpaty at home in the league. 1 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Bukovyna form and stats
Let's have a look at how Bukovyna performed last season in the Second League: Group A: They landed a 3rd position in the league table after playing out 3 victories, 4 draws and 1 defeat. In total they scored 18 and conceded {14 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 2 and lost 1 with 3/3 goals scored/conceded.
Skrypnyk was the last player to score for the away team. Bukovyna haven't scored a league goal in the last 180 minutes.
Two away games in a row for Bukovyna, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Mykolaiv in the Ukrainian Cup.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Nyva Ternopil'.Head 2 Head
Head to head statistics (for the last five meetings): Karpaty won three games, zero matches ended with a draw and Bukovyna got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / one.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Pidlepenets 1 goals |
Karpaty missing players
Bukovyna missing players
| Karpaty | Bukovyna | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Karpaty | Last season | Bukovyna | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 22 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 22 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Scored | S | 6 | 21 | ||
| 22 | 10 | Conceded | C | 13 | 30 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 82% | 86% | ||
| 77% | 82% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 68% | ||
| 41% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 50% | ||
| 14% | 18% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 23% | ||
| 9% | 9% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 5% | ||
| 50% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 55% | ||
| 32% | 36% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 18% | ||
| 18% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 41% | ||
| 6.7 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.6 | 3.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.6 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 6.5 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.5 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 39% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 47% | ||
| 8.1 | 8.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 5.9 | 5.4 | ||
| 2.8 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nyva Buzova | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Karpaty | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Nyva Ternopil' | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Epitsentr Dunayivtsi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Prykarpattia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Ahrobiznes Volochysk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 8 | Metal Kharkiv | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 9 | Bukovyna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Khust City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Polessya | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Obolon'-Brovar | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 29 |
| 3 | LNZ Cherkasy | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 |
| 4 | Metalurh Zaporizhya | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 |
| 5 | Karpaty | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 18 |
| 6 | Epitsentr Dunayivtsi | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 15 |
| 7 | Nyva Ternopil' | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | -7 | 8 |
| 8 | Kremin' | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -20 | 7 |
