Match preview: Home crowd has high expectations when Zorya meet Veres

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Competition: Ukraine Premier League
Competition: Wed 03.May
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Slavutych-Arena (11983 seats)

The Premier League league table tells a tale about these participants up until now, with Zorya in front of Veres by 25 points. Tipsway full preview:

Insights:
  • Zorya have the most points from losing position (12) in Premier League

Zorya have less rest than Veres in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Premier League game only four days ago. This match was also played here at Slavutych-Arena. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Veres have had more rest.

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Zorya form and stats

27 points is a decent return from 11 Premier League games here at Slavutych-Arena for Zorya. The data says 8 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses. After failing to beat Kolos Kovalivka here at Slavutych-Arena, Zorya has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

Zorya's last game was hosting Chornomorets (placed 12th) and winning 3-1.

Before that match, a win away at Kolos Kovalivka.

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 5 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 3 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.

Zorya are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Slavutych-Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 29 goals in 11 matches. 14 goals have been conceded.

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Veres form and stats

5 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Veres playing as the away team in the Premier League this season. Two points from the last two away games for Veres, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

Veres go into this game after a win, the home game against Lviv that ended 3-2. That victory was so needed for this team, after a painful sequence of eleven league games in a row not winning. Which player has beaten the opponent goalie three games in a row for the away team? The answer is Bliznichenko and that is solid stuff!

A draw for Veres before that, at their own venue hosting Minai (1-1).

Veres are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 19 times in 12 away games so far. As opposed to that, Veres have seen the ball go into their own net 17 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The 5 most recent matches involving these sides have all finished as Zorya victories. Will history repeat itself?

The previous H2H match ended Veres - Zorya 0-1, earlier this season. The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be ill-tempered, having seen 4 red cards from the last seven duels.

Top Goalscorers

ZoryaN. Rusyn
N. Rusyn
8 goals
ZoryaS. Buletsa
S. Buletsa
6 goals
ZoryaV. Brazhko
V. Brazhko
5 goals

Zorya missing players

Veres missing players

Zorya Veres
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 5 Played P 2 12 23
15 8 4 Won W 0 5 6
4 3 1 Drew D 0 3 6
4 0 0 Lost L 2 4 11
48 29 13 Scored S 2 19 30
28 14 5 Conceded C 5 17 36
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 96%
78% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 70%
74% 91% 80% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 42% 48%
57% 73% 60% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 35%
22% 27% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 25% 17%
61% 91% 80% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 57%
26% 9% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 13%
13% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 35%
 
5.4 5.7 6.4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.2 4.4
5 4.9 3.6 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.3 5.3
1.8 1.4 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
10.9 11.5 14.4 Shots (avg) S ( 3.5 7.6 7.7
4.9 5.3 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 3.8 3.7
42% 50% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 42% 36%
 
7.9 8.7 7 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 6.8 7
3.9 3.5 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 3.1 3.1
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Zorya's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Zorya have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Zorya have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Zorya have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Zorya have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Zorya have the fewest matches under the total-line (6) in Premier League
  • Zorya have the most points from losing position (12) in Premier League
  • Zorya have the most scored goals (29) at home in Premier League
  • Zorya 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 Shakhtar Donetsk 23 17 5 1 56 17 12 9 3 0 24 8 11 8 2 1 32 9 39 56
2 Dnipro-1 22 16 3 3 48 19 10 8 1 1 24 9 12 8 2 2 24 10 29 51
3 Zorya 23 15 4 4 48 28 11 8 3 0 29 14 12 7 1 4 19 14 20 49
4 Dynamo Kyiv 23 13 5 5 34 19 13 6 4 3 17 10 10 7 1 2 17 9 15 44
5 Oleksandria 22 8 10 4 34 28 12 6 5 1 24 14 10 2 5 3 10 14 6 34
6 Hirnyk 23 9 4 10 21 27 12 6 2 4 11 12 11 3 2 6 10 15 -6 31
7 Vorskla 23 8 6 9 28 31 11 5 3 3 13 10 12 3 3 6 15 21 -3 30
8 Kolos Kovalivka 23 8 6 9 20 24 12 5 2 5 13 11 11 3 4 4 7 13 -4 30
9 Inhulets 23 7 5 11 20 26 12 5 0 7 10 13 11 2 5 4 10 13 -6 26
10 Metalist 1925 Kharkiv 23 5 11 7 20 35 11 3 3 5 10 23 12 2 8 2 10 12 -15 26
11 Veres 23 6 6 11 30 36 11 1 3 7 11 19 12 5 3 4 19 17 -6 24
12 Chornomorets 23 5 8 10 23 32 11 1 4 6 7 16 12 4 4 4 16 16 -9 23
13 Minai 23 5 8 10 17 27 11 2 4 5 8 13 12 3 4 5 9 14 -10 23
14 Rukh Vynnyky 23 4 8 11 23 35 12 2 6 4 14 15 11 2 2 7 9 20 -12 20
15 Metal Kharkiv 23 4 7 12 25 39 11 1 5 5 12 21 12 3 2 7 13 18 -14 19
16 Lviv 23 3 4 16 18 42 11 2 2 7 10 20 12 1 2 9 8 22 -24 13

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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.