Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Nikopol & Krystal face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Ukrainian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nikopol form and stats
Last season, Nikopol's Ukrainian Cup journey ended in the 1st round.Nikopol have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.
A strong away win for Nikopol against Real Pharm the last match. A goal frenzy last time out for Nikopol, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Real Pharm. Fun stuff to watch!
Preceding that game was the home draw versus Trostianets that ended 2-2.Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Second League: Group B game versus Tavriya in only three days. This game is also played here at Stadion Elektrometalurh-NFZ.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Nikopol, who have participated in one training match. Nikopol have won 0 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 1 game.
Krystal form and stats
Krystal was sent out of Ukrainian Cup in the 2nd round last season.The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Krystal have lost on their last two travels.
Krystal are travelling again after losing away to Peremoga in their previous match (0-5). Krystal lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.
Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Sumy.Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - one - eight (Nikopol wins - draws - Krystal wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Gora 3 goals | M. Rogulin 2 goals | V. Rubchynskyi 1 goals |
Nikopol missing players
Krystal missing players
| Nikopol | Krystal | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 14 | 6 | Lost | L | 11 | 17 | ||
| 27 | 11 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | ||
| 53 | 17 | Conceded | C | 32 | 51 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 56% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 24% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 16% | ||
| 52% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 71% | 56% | ||
| 4.2 | 3.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 3.3 | ||
| 6.2 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 5.9 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 8 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.1 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 2 | ||
| 28% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 21% | ||