Evenly matched teams: Veres vs Minai match preview

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Sat 22.April
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Kolos (20000 seats)

Pay more attention to their own game or switch tactics dependant on the opposition? Both Veres and Minai need to try something more fresh than in earlier matches. Read more!

Insights:
  • Veres have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
  • Minai have the fewest scored goals (15) in Premier League

It's quite the trip for Minai when visiting Veres as the cities are 1200 kilometers apart.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Veres form and stats

Veres's struggle is real here at Stadion Kolos with only 2 points collected from 9 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-7. Veres are slowly digging their own grave here at Stadion Kolos with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in nine attempts.

Veres drew their last game, 5-5 away at Metal Kharkiv (placed 15th). Trouble was brewing at the score 0-2 against Metal Kharkiv last time out, but a goal from Bliznichenko completed a comeback to a draw result for Veres.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Rukh Vynnyky that finished 0-0.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Veres have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 8 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 2 and lost 2.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Veres here at Stadion Kolos in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 9 games). Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 16 goals have been conceded.

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Minai form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Minai, who have the fewest scored goals (15) in Premier League, playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.

Minai are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Hirnyk (placed 7th).

Preceding that game, the 0-2 loss visiting Dynamo Kyiv's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Minai in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Minai, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Lacking goals? 15 of this team's latest 18 league fixtures have contained two goals or less.

The visitors have scored 8 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 13 goals have been conceded by Minai in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last head to head meeting ended Minai - Veres 1-1, earlier this season. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's two Veres victories, two draws and three Minai wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

VeresD. Klots
D. Klots
4 goals
VeresV. Dakhnovskiy
V. Dakhnovskiy
3 goals
VeresM. Gayduchyk
M. Gayduchyk
3 goals

Veres missing players

Minai missing players

Veres Minai
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 9 3 Played P 2 11 21
5 0 0 Won W 0 3 5
5 2 1 Drew D 1 3 6
11 7 2 Lost L 1 5 10
26 7 4 Scored S 1 8 15
33 16 7 Conceded C 2 13 25
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 95%
67% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 64% 57%
48% 56% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 27% 24%
33% 33% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 10%
14% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
52% 56% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 45% 48%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 27% 24%
38% 44% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 36% 33%
 
4.8 5.4 5 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.9 3.6
5.7 6.1 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 5.1 5.2
2.6 2.6 3.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.8 2.2
3 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.6 7.7 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 6.1 6.7
3.5 3.2 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.6 2.7
35% 24% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 27% 26%
 
7 7.3 5.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 10.6 9.8
3.2 3.3 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.5 3.8
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Minai have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Minai have the fewest scored goals (15) in Premier League
  • Veres have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Veres have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Veres have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Veres have the fewest clean sheets (0) at home in Premier League
  • Veres have the fewest points (2) at home in Premier League
  • Veres have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Premier League
  • Veres have yet to win a game at home.
  • Veres 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 20 15 4 1 50 15 11 8 3 0 22 8 9 7 1 1 28 7 35 49
2 Dnipro-1 20 14 3 3 43 17 9 7 1 1 21 7 11 7 2 2 22 10 26 45
3 Zorya 21 13 4 4 44 27 10 7 3 0 26 13 11 6 1 4 18 14 17 43
4 Dynamo Kyiv 21 12 4 5 30 17 12 6 3 3 16 9 9 6 1 2 14 8 13 40
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 21 8 6 7 19 20 10 5 2 3 12 7 11 3 4 4 7 13 -1 30
7 Hirnyk 21 8 4 9 17 23 10 5 2 3 7 8 11 3 2 6 10 15 -6 28
8 Vorskla 20 6 5 9 23 28 10 4 3 3 10 8 10 2 2 6 13 20 -5 23
9 Inhulets 20 6 4 10 19 24 10 4 0 6 9 11 10 2 4 4 10 13 -5 22
10 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 21 4 10 7 17 34 11 3 3 5 10 23 10 1 7 2 7 11 -17 22
11 Minai 21 5 6 10 15 25 10 2 3 5 7 12 11 3 3 5 8 13 -10 21
12 Veres 21 5 5 11 26 33 9 0 2 7 7 16 12 5 3 4 19 17 -7 20
13 Chornomorets 20 4 8 8 19 26 10 1 4 5 7 15 10 3 4 3 12 11 -7 20
14 Rukh Vynnyky 20 4 7 9 20 30 11 2 5 4 13 14 9 2 2 5 7 16 -10 19
15 Metal Kharkiv 21 4 7 10 22 33 10 1 5 4 11 18 11 3 2 6 11 15 -11 19
16 Lviv 20 3 4 13 16 35 10 2 2 6 10 18 10 1 2 7 6 17 -19 13

Read more about Premier League

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.