Premier League fixture prediction and preview for the Metal Kharkiv vs Rukh Vynnyky battle

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sun 05.March
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist (40003 seats)

Premier League: We're expecting an absorbing and important fight involving Metal Kharkiv and Rukh Vynnyky at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist. This duo need points like a fish needs water!

Insights:
  • Metal Kharkiv have the most conceded goals (23) in Premier League
  • Rukh Vynnyky have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier League

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Metal Kharkiv form and stats

Metal Kharkiv's results here at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist in the Premier League have been very modest with 1 victory, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Metal Kharkiv are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 466 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Panasenko).

Kharkiv are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-3 away versus Dynamo Kyiv.

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-3 away at Dynamo Kyiv.

A fact: This side have finished 5 league fixtures in a row with only one (or none) team scoring.

Metal Kharkiv have scored {5 league goals} here from 6 matches, not a lot. Kharkiv have conceded 11 from these games.

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Rukh Vynnyky form and stats

There's been little loot from Rukh Vynnyky's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Premier League. Rukh Vynnyky only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws. The last three matches for Rukh Vynnyky have all ended in a draw.

There were no winners in Vynnyky's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Chornomorets (placed 15th). Rukh Vynnyky's last match (vs Chornomorets) ended in drama as all points looked lost at the score 0-2. They did not give up, fought back and in the end a courageous finish rescued a draw after 90 minutes thanks to a 84th minute equalizer by Karabin.

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Chornomorets.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Rukh Vynnyky playing away and similar expectations, we found 4 relevant matches. Results were 0 Rukh Vynnyky wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Sports betting fact: Both sides have scored at least once in 9 of this club's latest 11 league matches.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Rukh Vynnyky as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games in the league. Vynnyky struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 10 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

Metal Kharkiv and Rukh Vynnyky have met already this season: Rukh Vynnyky - Metal Kharkiv 1-2.

Top Goalscorers

Metal KharkivM. Priadun
M. Priadun
6 goals
Rukh VynnykyT. Brener de Paula
T. Brener de Paula
5 goals
Rukh VynnykyO. Dovgiy
O. Dovgiy
3 goals

Metal Kharkiv missing players

Rukh Vynnyky missing players

Metal Kharkiv Rukh Vynnyky
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 6 1 Played P 1 6 14
4 1 0 Won W 0 1 3
4 2 1 Drew D 0 2 5
7 3 0 Lost L 1 3 6
15 5 1 Scored S 1 5 17
23 11 1 Conceded C 2 10 22
87% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
60% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 86%
47% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 57%
27% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 29%
20% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
53% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 71%
13% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 7%
47% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 21%
 
3.2 3.3 9 Corners for (avg) C F 3 6.8 5.7
6.7 6.7 5 Corners against (avg) C A 2 5 6
2.4 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 4.3 3.4
5 2 0 Red cards R C 1 2 5
 
6 6.2 7 Shots (avg) S ( 7 5.8 7.1
2.5 2.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 2.8 3.6
41% 33% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 29% 34%
 
10.7 10.2 15 Shots against (avg) S A 6 7.8 9
5.3 5 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.7 3.7
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Metal Kharkiv have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Metal Kharkiv have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Metal Kharkiv have the most conceded goals (23) in Premier League
  • Metal Kharkiv is in the worst form (0-2-4)
  • Rukh Vynnyky have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier League
  • Rukh Vynnyky 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 Dnipro-1 14 11 2 1 31 10 7 6 1 0 16 4 7 5 1 1 15 6 21 35
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 13 9 3 1 29 11 9 6 3 0 19 8 4 3 0 1 10 3 18 30
3 Dynamo Kyiv 15 9 3 3 24 13 9 5 3 1 14 6 6 4 0 2 10 7 11 30
4 Zorya 15 8 4 3 32 22 7 4 3 0 18 11 8 4 1 3 14 11 10 28
5 Oleksandria 13 7 3 3 23 19 7 5 1 1 15 8 6 2 2 2 8 11 4 24
6 Kolos Kovalivka 15 5 5 5 14 18 8 4 2 2 9 6 7 1 3 3 5 12 -4 20
7 Vorskla 15 5 3 7 18 20 7 3 2 2 7 5 8 2 1 5 11 15 -2 18
8 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 14 4 6 4 13 17 8 3 2 3 10 13 6 1 4 1 3 4 -4 18
9 Hirnyk 15 5 3 7 11 16 7 3 2 2 5 5 8 2 1 5 6 11 -5 18
10 Veres 15 5 2 8 17 20 5 0 1 4 3 8 10 5 1 4 14 12 -3 17
11 Metal Kharkiv 15 4 4 7 15 23 6 1 2 3 5 11 9 3 2 4 10 12 -8 16
12 Rukh Vynnyky 14 3 5 6 17 22 8 2 3 3 12 12 6 1 2 3 5 10 -5 14
13 Minai 14 3 5 6 10 15 6 1 2 3 3 5 8 2 3 3 7 10 -5 14
14 Inhulets 14 3 4 7 12 18 7 3 0 4 6 7 7 0 4 3 6 11 -6 13
15 Chornomorets 15 2 5 8 10 20 8 1 2 5 4 12 7 1 3 3 6 8 -10 11
16 Lviv 14 2 3 9 9 21 6 1 1 4 6 12 8 1 2 5 3 9 -12 9

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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.