The Dynamo Kyiv & Shakhtar Donetsk managers M. Lucescu and L. Ribeiro de Castro are both dreading and looking forward to this decisive game in the upper regions of the Premier League league table.
There haven't been much time to rest for the hosts, as they played a Champions League match only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Barcelona.
Dynamo Kyiv form and stats
The story so far in the Premier League for Dynamo Kyiv, who have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier League, at their home stadium (NSK Olimpijs'kyj) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
Dynamo Kyiv lost their last game at Barcelona after a 1-2 scoreline. In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Dnipro-1.
Ruslan Neshcheret had a busy but productive day in the Barcelona match. Despite making twelve saves the loss could not be prevented.
Dynamo are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 4 games. Defensively Dynamo have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (20) in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 0 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. It's been quite a sequence of draws for Shakhtar when traveling as their last four away games have all ended all square. Not since the Zorya match has the points been distributed unevenly.
Shakhtar Donetsk failed to get anything from their last game, a Champions League home match vs Borussia M'gladbach that ended with defeat 0-6. A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs Mariupol.
Shakhtar lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-6 beating and focus on this one.
The travelling fans enjoy Shakhtar's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. Shakhtar have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dynamo two wins, three draws and Shakhtar Donetsk five victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  V. Tsygankov 4 goals |   V. Kovalenko 4 goals |  A. Lourenço 3 goals |
Dynamo Kyiv missing players
Shakhtar Donetsk missing players
| Dynamo Kyiv | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 20 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 88% | 75% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 88% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 12% | 25% | 100% | 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 |
| 1.5 | 1.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 77 | 46 | 19 | Total Shots | T S | 33 | 43 | 106 |
| 35 | 19 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 12 | 16 | 51 |
| 49% | 26% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 38% | 39% |
- All of Shakhtar Donetsk's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Dynamo Kyiv has the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv has the the best goal difference (+13) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have not yet lost a game.
- Dynamo Kyiv have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Dynamo Kyiv is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals (20) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk has the most scored goals in the second half (11) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have not yet lost a game.
- 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 yet to win a game away.
- 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 | 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 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 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 | Zorya | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 10 |
| 9 | Oleksandria | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 10 | Dnipro-1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 11 | Inhulets | 8 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 12 | Minai | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 6 |
| 13 | Lviv | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | -16 | 4 |
| 14 | Rukh Vynnyky | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -12 | 3 |