The Dynamo Kyiv & Zorya bosses Lucescu and Skripnik are both fearful of and feeling excited about this vital game in the upper part of the Premier League league table.
- Dynamo Kyiv have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Premier League
- Zorya have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
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.
Dynamo Kyiv form and stats
Dynamo Kyiv have performed here at NSK Olimpijs'kyj this season with 6 wins from 8 Premier League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 1 game and lost 1.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan not having conceded a league goal in 226 minutes.
The fans are hoping that Dynamo will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Champions League game against Benfica. Midfielder Mykola Shaparenko was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.42 (out of ten) in that game. Shaparenko hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 82 successful passes (of 88 total).
In the game before, an away victory in the Premier League match versus Veres with a 3-0 scoreline.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Dynamo home games with this odds we find nine games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, four draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.
Dynamo are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at NSK Olimpijs'kyj in their league games, having scored an impressive 21 goals in 8 matches. Dynamo Kyiv have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 2 goals. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Zorya form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 5 wins, 1 draw and only 2 losses in the Premier League.
The Zorya goalkeeper Dmytro Matsapura is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 238 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Zorya delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Bodø / Glimt in their previous match; a Europa Conference League game. Midfield player Egor Nazaryna was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.45/10. Nazaryna scored one goal and hit two key passes.
Prior to that match, a home win 1-0 against Inhulets in the Premier League.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Zorya played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected two times.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 23 goals in 8 league games away this season. Zorya's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 14 goals from these trips.
Head 2 Head
Dynamo Kyiv and Zorya have duelled before this season: Zorya - Dynamo Kyiv 1-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - three - one (Dynamo wins - draws - Zorya wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  V. Tsygankov 11 goals |  V. Buyalskyy 8 goals |  D. Harmash 7 goals |
Dynamo Kyiv missing players
Zorya missing players
| Dynamo Kyiv | Zorya | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 46 | 21 | 3 | Scored | S | 5 | 23 | 36 |
| 8 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | 18 |
| 94% | 88% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 88% | 75% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 71% |
| 53% | 50% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 75% | 53% |
| 35% | 38% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 62% | 29% |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 50% | 24% |
| 35% | 12% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 47% |
| 65% | 88% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 47% |
| 6% | 12% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 7.6 | 6.2 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4.2 | 4.8 |
| 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.6 | 4.9 |
| 2 | 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.4 | 13 | 9.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.5 | 11.5 | 11.4 |
| 6.1 | 6.1 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
| 44% | 43% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 83% | 56% | 45% |
| 5.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 9.8 | 9.1 |
| 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
- Dynamo Kyiv have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Dynamo Kyiv have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have the fewest conceded goals (8) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have the most clean sheets (11) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have the most clean sheets (7) at home in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have the most scored goals in the first half (25) in Premier League
- Dynamo Kyiv have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Dynamo Kyiv have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Zorya have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Zorya have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Zorya 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 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 47 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 38 | 44 |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 17 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 46 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 38 | 44 |
| 3 | Dnipro-1 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 37 |
| 4 | Zorya | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 18 | 35 |
| 5 | Vorskla | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 32 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 26 |
| 7 | Desna | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -4 | 25 |
| 8 | Veres | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | -5 | 22 |
| 9 | Kolos Kovalivka | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -10 | 21 |
| 10 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 17 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -11 | 19 |
| 11 | Rukh Vynnyky | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -5 | 17 |
| 12 | Lviv | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -16 | 16 |
| 13 | Chornomorets | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -21 | 11 |
| 14 | Inhulets | 16 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 17 | -16 | 10 |
| 15 | Minai | 17 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 28 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 16 | -17 | 10 |
| 16 | Mariupol | 17 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 19 | -20 | 8 |