Premier League match prediction: Little separates Inhulets and Mariupol in quality

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sun 25.October
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Inhulets (1720 seats)

Inhulets hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 4 points and a 10th position in the Premier League table. Visiting Mariupol holds 5th place with 10 pts.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Inhulets form and stats

Inhulets have played three Premier League home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead. The Inhulets fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Stadion Inhulets and will expect new points from this game. Inhulets has played 23 games in a row here without a defeat.

The fans are hoping that Inhulets will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 3-4 away loss in the Premier League game against Oleksandria (placed 7th). Prior to that, an away loss at Oleksandria in the Ukrainian Cup.

As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?

Inhulets has scored 3 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. 3 goals have been conceded.

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Mariupol form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most points (10) away in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Two travels in a row for Mariupol, whose manager O. Markevych could celebrate last time after the Premier League win against Minai. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Kolos Kovalivka wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.

Late drama in the previous game, when Artem Bondarenko scored the winning goal two minutes into stoppage time to defeat Minai.

The attacking power of Mariupol when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 6 league matches away. 6 goals have been conceded by Mariupol in these games.

Head 2 Head

Last three meetings between the teams: Inhulets won one, Mariupol won one and one draw. one game with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

InhuletsN. Sitchinava
N. Sitchinava
2 goals
MariupolA. Bondarenko
A. Bondarenko
2 goals
InhuletsD. Balan
D. Balan
1 goals

Inhulets missing players

Mariupol missing players

Inhulets Mariupol
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 2 6 6
0 0 0 Won W 2 3 3
4 3 1 Drew D 0 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 0 2 2
6 3 1 Scored S 3 5 5
9 3 1 Conceded C 1 6 6
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 83%
83% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 33% 33%
17% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 33%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 17%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 17%
67% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 33% 33%
17% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 50% 50%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 33%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.5 4 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3.2 3.2
2 0 0 Red cards R C 1 3 3
 
64 30 7 Total Shots T S 16 54 54
20 9 3 Shots on Target S O 7 22 22
30% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 23% 23%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Inhulets's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Inhulets have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Inhulets have yet to win a game.
  • Mariupol has the most clean sheets (3) away in Premier League
  • Mariupol has the most points (10) away in Premier League

  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 6 4 2 0 14 3 3 1 2 0 4 2 3 3 0 0 10 1 11 14
2 Vorskla 6 4 2 0 12 4 3 2 1 0 7 2 3 2 1 0 5 2 8 14
3 Shakhtar Donetsk 6 3 3 0 15 7 3 3 0 0 10 2 3 0 3 0 5 5 8 12
4 Kolos Kovalivka 6 3 2 1 9 5 3 2 1 0 5 0 3 1 1 1 4 5 4 11
5 Mariupol 6 3 1 2 5 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 1 2 5 6 -1 10
6 Desna 5 2 3 0 9 5 3 2 1 0 8 4 2 0 2 0 1 1 4 9
7 Oleksandria 6 3 0 3 14 11 4 3 0 1 12 7 2 0 0 2 2 4 3 9
8 Olimpik Donetsk 6 3 0 3 10 10 4 2 0 2 7 7 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 9
9 Zorya 6 1 3 2 10 8 3 0 2 1 3 4 3 1 1 1 7 4 2 6
10 Inhulets 6 0 4 2 6 9 3 0 3 0 3 3 3 0 1 2 3 6 -3 4
11 Minai 5 1 1 3 2 9 3 1 0 2 1 5 2 0 1 1 1 4 -7 4
12 Dnipro-1 5 0 2 3 6 12 3 0 1 2 4 7 2 0 1 1 2 5 -6 2
13 Rukh Vynnyky 6 0 2 4 5 13 4 0 2 2 2 5 2 0 0 2 3 8 -8 2
14 Lviv 5 0 1 4 2 17 1 0 0 1 0 5 4 0 1 3 2 12 -15 1

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.