Premier League: Zorya thought to get the better of Lviv

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Lviv, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.

Both participants have had plenty of rest since their previous competitive action. Let's agree to expect an active fixture!

Zorya form and stats

15 points is a decent return from 7 Premier League games here at Slavutych-Arena for Zorya. The data says 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. Zorya have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A strong away win for Zorya against Vorskla the last match, as Rusyn and Brazhko (2) were on target. The game against Vorskla had lots of late drama as Zorya came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured the victory through Brazhko's goal in the 90th minute. A late climax in the match against Vorskla as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by Brazhko.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Zorya home games with this odds we find 4 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 1 match were won by at least two goals.

Goal party? Who knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 13 of the 16 most recent league matches with this team has seen at least three goals.

Goals are plentiful at Slavutych-Arena in the league this season as Zorya has scored 18 goals here in 7 home games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Zorya defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Lviv form and stats

Lviv have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-2-5 (8 played). Bitter travels for Lviv as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Metalist 1925 Kharkiv match.

Lviv go into this game after a win, the home game against Minai that ended 1-0. That win felt sweet as this team had gone three league matches without winning. Remenyak came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Minai last time out, making the manager Dulub feel like a tactical genius.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Lviv played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 1 time, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 4 times.

Lviv are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {3 goals} from 8 away games. As opposed to that, Lviv have seen the ball go into their own net 9 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides face each other this campaign, as the statistics show this recent game: Lviv - Zorya 2-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Zorya six wins, three draws and Lviv one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

I. Kyryukhantsev 5 goals

S. Buletsa 4 goals

N. Rusyn 4 goals

Zorya missing players

Lviv missing players