The visiting Shakhtar Donetsk side are probably odds-on at Mariupol, as the guests own a 12 point edge from their seven league matches this season.
- Mariupol have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premier League
The visiting Shakhtar Donetsk played their last game only three days ago, a Champions League match. That game, against Sheriff, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Shakhtar Donetsk.
Mariupol form and stats
Three Premier League home games done for Mariupol, who are not happy collecting 0 points from these matches. Three consecutive losses here at Stadion Kovalivka is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.
It's back home for Mariupol, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Kolos Kovalivka away with the result 3-1. Andriy Kulakov and Dmytro Topalov (2) found the net in that victory.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Inhulets (0-3).The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Shakhtar Donetsk to win. Let's see if Mariupol are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: five games found revealing one Mariupol win, one draw and three defeats.
There will be little rest for Mariupol after this match as they are travelling to Volyn for a Ukrainian Cup game in only four days.
The Mariupol manager O. Markevych has got the team scoring with 6 from 3 home games in the league. Neutralizing the opposition is a challenge, Mariupol having conceded 9 goals here at Stadion Kovalivka so far. This has been a stadium of sighs so far as Mariupol have let the opposition score 9 times, an average of more than three per game.
Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats
Shakhtar Donetsk are happy with their away performances in the Premier League so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels.
Shakhtar are travelling again after losing away to Sheriff in their previous match (0-2). Midfielder Maycon was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.01. Maycon hit eight key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 94 successful passes (of 98 total).
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Dnipro-1 in the Premier League.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Shakhtar Donetsk given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed twelve matches with six wins as expected, four draws and two surprise home wins. The favourites won four of these games by at least two goals.
A new game in only four days for Shakhtar, the Super Cup home match versus Dynamo Kyiv. Busy days.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Shakhtar Donetsk are regular goalscorers on their travels. The Shakhtar defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (1 goal in 3 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mariupol zero wins, one draw and Shakhtar Donetsk nine victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Kulakov 5 goals |   L. Traore 5 goals | D. Topalov 2 goals |
Mariupol missing players
Shakhtar Donetsk missing players
| Mariupol | Shakhtar Donetsk | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 16 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 67% | 57% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 86% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 67% | 57% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.1 | 3 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| 6.3 | 6 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| 3.4 | 3.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 8.1 | 10.3 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 17 | 17 | 14.9 |
| 2.9 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.7 | 7.7 | 6.4 |
| 55% | 50% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 30% | 31% |
- All of Mariupol's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Shakhtar Donetsk's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Mariupol have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Mariupol have lost all their home matches so far.
- Mariupol have the fewest points (0) at home in Premier League
- Mariupol have the most conceded goals (9) at home in Premier League
- Mariupol have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Premier League
- Mariupol haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- 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 in all their matches so far.
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Premier League
- Shakhtar Donetsk have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- 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 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 19 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 16 |
| 3 | Oleksandria | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Dnipro-1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | Desna | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 13 |
| 6 | Vorskla | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 7 | Zorya | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | Veres | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 9 | Rukh Vynnyky | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 10 | Inhulets | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 7 |
| 11 | Minai | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 12 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -6 | 6 |
| 13 | Chornomorets | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -9 | 5 |
| 14 | Kolos Kovalivka | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | -9 | 5 |
| 15 | Mariupol | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 4 |
| 16 | Lviv | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 2 |