National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Metal Kharkiv or Kolos Kovalivka that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Kharkiv nor Kolos Kovalivka 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.
Metal Kharkiv form and stats
Kharkiv participated in Ukrainian Cup the last season, where they reached the 1st round.6-1-0 is the performance here at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist so far in the Persha Liga, giving Metal Kharkiv a total of 19 from their 7 games here. Outstanding results! On the other hand, in the Ukrainian Cup, Metal Kharkiv has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. In general it's been a long time since Kharkiv tasted defeat here at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist, as they have taken at least one point from their last 18 home games in the league.
Kharkiv's previous game was a Persha Liga match also played at home, ending 3-0 versus Podillya Khmelnytskyi. The home side are looking to build on that result.
A Persha Liga defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Ahrobiznes Volochysk.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Kharkiv's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played one game, won one match, drawn zero and lost zero.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Persha Liga game versus Alians Lypova Dolyna in only four days. This game is also played here at Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist.
Metal Kharkiv are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (18 goals in 7 games). As for guarding their own goal, Kharkiv have only let in 3 goals at home.
Kolos Kovalivka form and stats
They also participated in Ukrainian Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.The visitors are W1-D1-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League. Kovalivka has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Kovalivka are looking to quickly end their 211 minutes long goal drought in the Premier League.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Kovalivka, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Zorya.
A 0-2 defeat away at Dnipro-1 before that.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Kovalivka playing away, we found four games. Results were zero away wins, two draws and two home wins.
After this away game Kolos Kovalivka return home for a Premier League game against Lviv. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Goals are few and far between in Kolos Kovalivka's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. For Kolos Kovalivka, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Vieira Campos Peixoto 12 goals |  F. Bahlouli 5 goals | E. Banada 4 goals |
Metal Kharkiv missing players
Kolos Kovalivka missing players
| Metal Kharkiv | Kolos Kovalivka | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 22 | 11 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 72 | 37 | Scored | S | 11 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Conceded | C | 15 | 27 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 84% | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 64% | ||
| 84% | 83% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 48% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 36% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 40% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | ||
| 7.1 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 5.8 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 12.1 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 9.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 3.4 | ||
| 46% | 49% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 25% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Metal Kharkiv | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | 31 | 38 |
| 2 | Hirnyk | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 31 |
| 3 | Obolon'-Brovar | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 27 |
| 4 | Alians Lypova Dolyna | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Olimpik Donetsk | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 23 |
| 6 | Prykarpattia | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 7 | Hirnyk-Sport | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | -3 | 19 |
| 7 | Minai | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Mykolaiv | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Nyva Ternopil' | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | -4 | 19 |
| 9 | Volyn | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 18 |
| 10 | Avanhard | 13 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 18 |
| 11 | Podillya Khmelnytskyi | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -1 | 17 |
| 12 | Polessya | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 |
| 13 | Kremin' | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 14 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 21 | -15 | 13 |
| 14 | Ahrobiznes Volochysk | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | -9 | 12 |
| 15 | VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka | 14 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 12 | -12 | 10 |
| 16 | Uzhhorod | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -22 | 9 |
| 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 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 28 | 32 |
| 2 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 25 | 29 |
| 3 | Vorskla | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 24 |
| 4 | Zorya | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 23 |
| 5 | Dnipro-1 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 22 |
| 6 | Oleksandria | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 19 |
| 7 | Metalist 1925 Kharkiv | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 19 |
| 8 | Veres | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 18 |
| 9 | Desna | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -3 | 18 |
| 10 | Rukh Vynnyky | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 11 | Kolos Kovalivka | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -10 | 11 |
| 12 | Minai | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 8 |
| 13 | Inhulets | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -13 | 8 |
| 14 | Lviv | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -12 | 7 |
| 15 | Chornomorets | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | -14 | 7 |
| 16 | Mariupol | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 29 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -16 | 4 |