Desna favourites for feisty fight facing Kolos Kovalivka

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sun 21.November
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Chernihiv Arena (1000 seats)

Most would pick Desna in this match vs Kolos Kovalivka, but the guests will resist to the end. Here's the Tipsway match preview!

Insights:
  • Desna haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Kolos Kovalivka have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Premier League

Desna and Kolos Kovalivka should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Desna form and stats

When playing at home in the Premier League, Desna have managed 4 wins, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 7 games.

A strong away win for Desna against Lviv the last match, as Vladislav Kalitvintsev and Taras Zaviysky were on target.

Heartbreak before that as Desna lost 1-4 at Shakhtar Donetsk's place.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Desna handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, one draw and two defeats.

Desna are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Desna's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 8 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Kolos Kovalivka form and stats

Playing away, Kolos Kovalivka, who have the fewest scored goals (2) away in Premier League, have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Premier League this season. With the Kovalivka losing streak of four defeats in a row, regardless of arena, optimism is low and sinking.

Home advantage was not enough for Kolos Kovalivka in their previous game, as they lost their Premier League-match, hosting Shakhtar Donetsk, 1-3.

A 0-1 loss hosting Lviv before that.

Kovalivka are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is four wins, one draw and five defeats. From a total of ten matches.

Kovalivka have another fixture away from home in just two sleeps, a Premier League match vs Minai. A gruelling fixture list for the visitors!

Goals are few and far between in Kovalivka's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. For Kovalivka, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - three - three (Desna wins - draws - Kolos Kovalivka wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

DesnaD. Bezborodko
D. Bezborodko
7 goals
DesnaV. Kalitvintsev
V. Kalitvintsev
3 goals
DesnaT. Zaviyskiy
T. Zaviyskiy
3 goals

Desna missing players

Kolos Kovalivka missing players

Desna Kolos Kovalivka
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 1 5 13
6 4 2 Won W 0 1 3
3 1 0 Drew D 1 1 2
5 2 0 Lost L 0 3 8
17 10 5 Scored S 0 2 8
21 8 0 Conceded C 0 10 21
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 92%
86% 86% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 60% 54%
57% 57% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 31%
29% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 23%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 8%
43% 43% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 31%
36% 43% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 23%
29% 14% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 80% 54%
 
4.5 5 7 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.6 4.3
4.3 4.1 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.6 5.2
2.2 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.3 10.3 13.5 Shots (avg) S ( 6 7.2 10.2
3.9 3.6 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 1.2 3.4
31% 40% 42% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 33% 18%
 
10.9 7 7 Shots against (avg) S A 9 13.4 11.2
4.1 2.7 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 5.6 4.8
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Desna have scored more than double the goals of Kolos Kovalivka.
  • Desna haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Kolos Kovalivka have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Kolos Kovalivka have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Kolos Kovalivka have the fewest scored goals (2) away in Premier League
  • Kolos Kovalivka have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
  • Kolos Kovalivka have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Shakhtar Donetsk 14 11 2 1 38 8 7 6 0 1 21 6 7 5 2 0 17 2 30 35
2 Dynamo Kyiv 14 11 2 1 35 7 8 6 1 1 21 2 6 5 1 0 14 5 28 35
3 Zorya 14 9 2 3 33 16 8 5 1 2 12 4 6 4 1 1 21 12 17 29
4 Vorskla 14 8 4 2 23 11 9 5 3 1 17 7 5 3 1 1 6 4 12 28
5 Dnipro-1 14 9 1 4 21 14 6 5 0 1 11 5 8 4 1 3 10 9 7 28
6 Oleksandria 14 6 5 3 14 10 4 3 0 1 6 3 10 3 5 2 8 7 4 23
7 Desna 14 6 3 5 17 21 7 4 1 2 10 8 7 2 2 3 7 13 -4 21
8 Veres 14 5 4 5 12 15 6 3 3 0 5 1 8 2 1 5 7 14 -3 19
9 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 14 6 1 7 16 22 7 4 0 3 12 13 7 2 1 4 4 9 -6 19
10 Rukh Vynnyky 13 3 4 6 13 18 6 2 3 1 6 6 7 1 1 5 7 12 -5 13
11 Chornomorets 14 2 5 7 16 29 7 1 3 3 8 14 7 1 2 4 8 15 -13 11
12 Kolos Kovalivka 13 3 2 8 8 21 8 2 1 5 6 11 5 1 1 3 2 10 -13 11
13 Lviv 14 2 4 8 9 22 8 0 3 5 4 14 6 2 1 3 5 8 -13 10
14 Inhulets 13 2 3 8 9 23 6 1 2 3 5 9 7 1 1 5 4 14 -14 9
15 Minai 13 1 5 7 8 20 6 1 3 2 5 7 7 0 2 5 3 13 -12 8
16 Mariupol 14 2 1 11 17 32 7 0 0 7 9 21 7 2 1 4 8 11 -15 7

Read more about Premier League

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.