Premier League preview of Minai - Shakhtar Donetsk: Visitors believed to win

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sun 29.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Avanhard (12080 seats)

Minai open their doors to Shakhtar Donetsk for another interesting Premier League game here at Stadion Avanhard.

Insights:
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Premier League

Shakhtar Donetsk could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Champions League game only four sleeps ago.

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Minai form and stats

Minai have only played one Premier League game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 4 wins, 2 draws and 7 defeats from 13 matches.

Minai lost their last game at Veres (placed 10th) after a 0-1 scoreline. Some supporters pointed their nail-bitten fingers at Dmytro Bilonog for missing a penalty kick versus Veres in the 66th minute. It's possible that a goal in that situation would have changed the outcome.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Zorya that finished 1-1.

Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of a positive outcome are very slim. When Minai have been in this position before, they have won zero, drawn zero and lost one from one game. one defeat by at least two goals.

At Stadion Avanhard, Minai has the goal stats of 1-0 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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Shakhtar Donetsk form and stats

Shakhtar Donetsk are on a winning streak away after three games, as mentioned below. A maximum 6 points in the bag from 2 travels in the Premier League.

Shakhtar have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov. It's been 249 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.

Shakhtar Donetsk's last game was the home draw against Monaco (after extra-time) (2-2). Andriy Pyatov was the team player of the game with the player rating of 7.64. The agile goalkeeper Pyatov stopped the opponent with six saves. The match against Monaco (after extra-time) looked like a defeat for Shakhtar, but they did not accept the outcome and clawed their way back to 2-2. Ruben Aguilar equalized in the 114th minute. Goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov made a total of six saves, making him a hero against Monaco (after extra-time). Heavily contributing to the draw after 90 minutes.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Chornomorets at their stadium, the result 3-0.

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 given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed twelve matches with seven wins as expected, three draws and two surprise home wins. The favourites won five of these games by at least two goals.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Shakhtar Donetsk has managed 6 goals and let in 0 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Minai victories, zero draws and two Shakhtar Donetsk wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Minai missing players

Shakhtar Donetsk missing players

Minai Shakhtar Donetsk
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
4 1 0 Played P 2 2 5
1 1 0 Won W 2 2 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 0 0 Lost L 0 0 1
2 1 0 Scored S 6 6 11
4 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 80%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 40%
25% 100% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 100% 60%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
1.5 2 0 Corners for (avg) C F 7 7 5.8
4.5 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 1.5 1.5 1.6
3 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.5 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.8 7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 21.5 21.5 17.4
1.8 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 10 10 7.4
29% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 30% 30%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Shakhtar Donetsk have the the best goal difference (+6) away in Premier League
Minai Last season Shakhtar Donetsk
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
26 13   Played P   13 26
4 4   Won W   7 16
6 2   Drew D   4 6
16 7   Lost L   2 4
16 11   Scored S   24 54
47 21   Conceded C   10 19
88% 85%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   92% 96%
65% 62%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   77% 77%
54% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   54% 50%
23% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   31% 35%
8% 8%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   8% 15%
35% 38%   BTTS BTTS   31% 42%
15% 23%   Clean Sheets C S   62% 46%
62% 54%   Failed to Score F T   15% 15%
 
4.7 4.9   Corners for (avg) C F   5.6 5.5
4.4 3.6   Corners against (avg) C A   3.8 3.6
2.7 2.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.9 1.7
6 3   Red cards R C   1 2
 
7.1 7.4   Shots (avg) S (   12.7 13.9
2.6 2.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   5.2 6
24% 31%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 34%

  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 5 4 1 0 13 2 3 3 0 0 10 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 11 13
2 Shakhtar Donetsk 5 4 0 1 11 3 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 2 0 0 6 0 8 12
3 Desna 5 4 0 1 9 6 3 3 0 0 7 1 2 1 0 1 2 5 3 12
4 Vorskla 5 3 2 0 11 4 4 3 1 0 10 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 7 11
5 Dnipro-1 5 3 1 1 10 5 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 1 1 1 6 4 5 10
6 Oleksandria 5 3 1 1 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 1 5 3 2 10
7 Zorya 5 2 1 2 11 8 3 0 1 2 2 4 2 2 0 0 9 4 3 7
8 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 5 2 0 3 5 8 2 2 0 0 5 3 3 0 0 3 0 5 -3 6
9 Kolos Kovalivka 4 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5
10 Veres 5 1 2 2 3 7 3 1 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 1 6 -4 5
11 Minai 4 1 1 2 2 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 1 4 -2 4
12 Rukh Vynnyky 5 1 1 3 4 8 1 1 0 0 2 1 4 0 1 3 2 7 -4 4
13 Inhulets 5 1 1 3 5 11 2 0 1 1 2 6 3 1 0 2 3 5 -6 4
14 Chornomorets 5 1 0 4 5 14 2 0 0 2 0 6 3 1 0 2 5 8 -9 3
15 Lviv 5 0 2 3 4 11 4 0 2 2 3 7 1 0 0 1 1 4 -7 2
16 Mariupol 5 0 1 4 8 12 3 0 0 3 6 9 2 0 1 1 2 3 -4 1

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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.