The visiting Shakhtar Donetsk side should be favourites in this visit to Lviv, as the away team holds a 27 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.
- Lviv have the fewest scored goals (11) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the most scored goals (40) in Premier League
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Europa League game only three days ago.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Lviv form and stats
With 1 Premier League win, 1 draw and 5 defeats from their home games, Lviv, who have the fewest scored goals (11) in Premier League, are certainly not brimming with confidence. Lviv has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager V. Shumskiy and the players. The Lviv manager V. Shumskiy might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
Lviv are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-4 away versus Zorya. Ahead of that match, Lviv lost 1-4 at home to Dynamo Kyiv.
As you see from the result above, Lviv suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. The game against Zorya was basically lost in the first half (0-4) and the second half was more of a formality.
No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Lviv had similar winning odds as today, and found four games. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost four. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Lviv lost three similar games by at least two goals.
Lviv have scored 5 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Lviv have allowed the opposition to score 18 goals here at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist.
Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats
Shakhtar Donetsk, who have the most scored goals (40) in Premier League, have an excellent away record in the Premier League so far with 4-4-0 from 8 games. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Zorya game have they lost an away game, meaning Shakhtar has taken points from eight away matches in a row.
Shakhtar Donetsk have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Anatolii Trubin. It's been 180 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.
Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against Desna in the Premier League.
As mentioned earlier, Shakhtar will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in eight wins (five by two or more goals winning margin), three draws and one surprising defeat.
The travelling fans enjoy Shakhtar's attacking play in away games, having scored 13 goals in 8 league matches away. Shakhtar are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Shakhtar Donetsk - Lviv 5-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Lviv one win, one draw and Shakhtar Donetsk seven victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Lemos Martins 5 goals |  M. Solomon 5 goals |  A. Lourenço 4 goals |
Lviv missing players
Shakhtar Donetsk missing players
| Lviv | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 13 | 40 |
| 37 | 18 | 9 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 12 |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 94% |
| 75% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 62% | 78% |
| 56% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 50% | 57% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 39% |
| 19% | 29% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 50% | 57% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 38% | 50% |
| 19% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 62% | 44% |
| 38% | 29% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 11% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 3.4 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9.6 | 8.4 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 10.3 | 13.7 |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 4.7 | 6.6 |
| 19% | 20% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 30% | 33% |
- Lviv have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Lviv have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Lviv have the fewest scored goals (11) in Premier League
- Lviv have the most conceded goals (18) at home in Premier League
- Lviv have the most conceded goals (37) in Premier League
- Lviv have the most conceded goals in the first half (22) in Premier League
- Lviv have the the worst goal difference (-13) at home in Premier League
- Lviv have the the worst goal difference (-26) in Premier League
- Lviv haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have not yet lost a game away.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have scored more than double the goals of Lviv.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the fewest conceded goals (12) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the most scored goals (40) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the the best goal difference (+28) 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 | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 38 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 25 | 43 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 18 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 28 | 39 |
| 3 | Zorya | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 18 | 32 |
| 4 | Desna | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 30 |
| 5 | Vorskla | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 28 |
| 6 | Kolos Kovalivka | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 26 |
| 7 | Oleksandria | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 26 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 26 |
| 8 | Dnipro-1 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 18 | -7 | 19 |
| 9 | Olimpik Donetsk | 17 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 22 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -8 | 17 |
| 10 | Mariupol | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -11 | 17 |
| 11 | Inhulets | 18 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 27 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -11 | 16 |
| 12 | Rukh Vynnyky | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 18 | -16 | 13 |
| 13 | Minai | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 33 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 19 | -21 | 13 |
| 14 | Lviv | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 19 | -26 | 12 |