Minai hope to sell many tickets for this fixture even though the season has been difficult up to now with 22 points and a 12th place in the Premier League table. Visiting Metalist 1925 Kharkiv have 10th place with 25 pts.
- Minai haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Metalist 1925 Kharkiv have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Premier League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Minai form and stats
Minai's struggle is real here at Stadion Mynai with only 9 points collected from 10 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-3-5.
Minai travelled for their previous game, a trip to Veres that ended 1-1.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Hirnyk in a game that was won 1-0.Trench warfare? Looking at this club's last 19 league matches, 16 have contained two goals or less.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Minai as they are travelling to their away game against Shakhtar Donetsk in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Minai here at Stadion Mynai in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 10 games). On the other hand, Minai have conceded 12 goals.
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv form and stats
Playing away, Metalist 1925 Kharkiv have won 2 games, drawn 7 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premier League this season.
206 minutes! That's how long the Metalist 1925 Kharkiv goalkeeper Denys Sydorenko and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
It's the second away game in a row for Metalist 1925 Kharkiv, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Lviv (placed 16th) last time out. Yippee; their first three points in the league after eight rounds not winning.
A draw for Metalist 1925 Kharkiv before that, at their own venue hosting Oleksandria (0-0).Stats flash: 8 of the latest 10 league games featuring this team have had only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting terms).
The visitors have scored 9 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H match ended Metalist 1925 Kharkiv - Minai 0-1, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: three - zero - one (Minai wins - draws - Metalist 1925 Kharkiv wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less. The matches between these teams have sometimes been ill-tempered, having seen 2 red cards from the last four duels.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Tverdokhlib 4 goals |  R. Rusyn 4 goals | O. Vyshnevskyi 3 goals |
Minai missing players
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv missing players
| Minai | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 22 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 26 | 12 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 34 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 64% | 73% |
| 59% | 50% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 64% | 68% |
| 23% | 20% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 27% | 45% |
| 9% | 10% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 9% | 23% |
| 5% | 10% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 18% |
| 50% | 50% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 27% | 32% |
| 23% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 55% | 41% |
| 32% | 30% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 55% | 55% |
| 3.6 | 3.3 | 1.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4 | 3.8 |
| 5.1 | 5.4 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 7.3 | 7.1 |
| 2.2 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6.7 | 7.2 | 7.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 |
| 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| 27% | 25% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 33% | 29% |
| 9.9 | 9.1 | 9.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 11.8 | 11.9 |
| 3.8 | 4 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.2 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
- Metalist 1925 Kharkiv have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Premier League
- Metalist 1925 Kharkiv have the most clean sheets (6) away in Premier League
- Minai haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 53 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 8 | 37 | 53 |
| 2 | Zorya | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 45 | 27 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 46 |
| 3 | Dnipro-1 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 26 | 45 |
| 4 | Dynamo Kyiv | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 41 |
| 5 | Oleksandria | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 33 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 33 |
| 6 | Kolos Kovalivka | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 19 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -2 | 30 |
| 7 | Vorskla | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -3 | 29 |
| 8 | Hirnyk | 22 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | -7 | 28 |
| 9 | Inhulets | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 20 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | -4 | 25 |
| 10 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 22 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 19 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -15 | 25 |
| 11 | Chornomorets | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | -7 | 23 |
| 12 | Minai | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -10 | 22 |
| 13 | Veres | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 17 | -7 | 21 |
| 14 | Rukh Vynnyky | 21 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -11 | 19 |
| 15 | Metal Kharkiv | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 36 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 18 | -12 | 19 |
| 16 | Lviv | 22 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 19 | -23 | 13 |
