The league table in Premier League tells a story about these teams so far, with Desna leading Minai by 7 points. Match preview to follow:
Desna and Minai 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.
Desna form and stats
Desna have collected seven points from their first three Premier League games here, a promising start.
An away draw last time out for Desna, facing Oleksandria in a game that ended 2-2. In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Olimpik Donetsk.
The hometeam coach O. Ryabokon made a successful contribution in the game against Oleksandria, bringing on Pylyp Budkivskyi who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw.
Desna are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here in their league games, having scored an impressive 8 goals in 3 matches. Desna's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Minai form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Premier League for Minai with 2 draws and 1 loss from their first 3 attempts. Visiting Minai has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
Minai played 0-0 against Rukh Vynnyky in their previous match. Before that, Minai travelled to Kolos Kovalivka and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.
The visiting Minai have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 3 goals from 3 games. The Minai manager V. Kobin has some worries about the defense as 6 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Totovytsky 4 goals | P. Budkivskyi 3 goals |  A. Nuriev 2 goals |
Desna missing players
Minai missing players
| Desna | Minai | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 86% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 57% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 43% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 29% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 29% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 57% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.4 | 3.7 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 92 | 36 | 16 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 19 | 49 |
| 32 | 14 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 8 | 22 |
| 41% | 57% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 38% | 18% |
- All of Desna's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- All of Minai's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Desna has the most points from losing position (5) in Premier League
- Desna have not yet lost a game at home.
- Desna have scored more than double the goals of Minai.
- Minai have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Minai have yet to win a game away.
| 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 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 13 | 20 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 16 |
| 3 | Vorskla | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 4 | Desna | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Kolos Kovalivka | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 6 | Olimpik Donetsk | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | -1 | 12 |
| 7 | Mariupol | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -4 | 11 |
| 8 | Oleksandria | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | Zorya | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | Dnipro-1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | Minai | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 6 |
| 12 | Inhulets | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 13 | Rukh Vynnyky | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -12 | 3 |
| 14 | Lviv | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -17 | 1 |