Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Dynamo Kyiv & Oleksandria face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Ukrainian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's no vacation for neither Dynamo Kyiv nor Oleksandria as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Dynamo Kyiv form and stats
Dynamo Kyiv participated in Ukrainian Cup the last season, where they reached the quarter-finals.Overall Premier League stats at home this season for Dynamo Kyiv are 6-2-3 (wins-draw-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at NSK Olimpijs'kyj.
Happy days for Dynamo Kyiv in their previous game, a Premier League match away at Oleksandria that ended with a 3-1 victory. Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Kolos Kovalivka in a game that was won 2-0.
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 Dynamo Kyiv home games with this odds we find six games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in three wins, two draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, zero matches were won by at least two goals.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Dynamo Kyiv, as the Premier League home game vs Desna is only four days away.
The Dynamo Kyiv fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 19 goals in 11 league matches. Dynamo Kyiv have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Oleksandria form and stats
Oleksandria's mission in Ukrainian Cup last season failed in the 16th finals.4 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Oleksandria playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier League home defeat versus Dynamo Kyiv with 1-3 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Karpaty at their stadium, the result 4-0.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Oleksandria played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, two were draws and the home team won as expected two times.
A quick return to home after this game, as Oleksandria are hosting Kolos Kovalivka in the Premier League only three days away.
Oleksandria are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 11 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Oleksandria as they have only conceded 9 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Dynamo Kyiv seven wins, two draws and Oleksandria one victory. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  V. Tsygankov 8 goals |  B. Verbič 8 goals |  V. Buyalskyy 5 goals |
Dynamo Kyiv missing players
Oleksandria missing players
| Dynamo Kyiv | Oleksandria | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 54 | 34 | Scored | S | 11 | 39 | ||
| 24 | 13 | Conceded | C | 9 | 26 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 78% | 92% | ||
| 88% | 94% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 78% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 11% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 12% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 48% | ||
| 40% | 44% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 6% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.4 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.9 | 4.3 | ||
| 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 3 | ||
| 361 | 240 | Total Shots | T S | 59 | 145 | ||
| 135 | 86 | Shots on Target | S O | 25 | 57 | ||
| 36% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 35% | ||
| 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 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 59 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 45 | 59 |
| 2 | Dynamo Kyiv | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 44 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 27 | 45 |
| 3 | Zorya | 22 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 39 | 18 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 43 |
| 4 | Desna | 22 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 10 | 21 | 42 |
| 5 | Oleksandria | 22 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 30 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 37 |
| 6 | Kolos Kovalivka | 22 | 8 | 2 | 12 | 25 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 20 | -14 | 26 |
| 7 | Dnipro-1 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 20 | -8 | 25 |
| 8 | Mariupol | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 23 | -14 | 25 |
| 9 | Lviv | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -19 | 20 |
| 10 | Vorskla | 22 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 38 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 25 | -23 | 20 |
| 11 | Olimpik Donetsk | 22 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 37 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -20 | 18 |
| 12 | Karpaty | 22 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 40 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 23 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -23 | 13 |