Illichivets Mariupol vs Zorya Luhansk Live Stream, Predictions

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Illichivets Mariupol

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Illichivets Mariupol will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 0-1 Premier League defeat last time out to Oleksandria.

It has been all too rare in recent games where Illichivets Mariupol haven’t conceded. In fact, Mariupol have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 9 goals during that time. Let’s see whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

Going into this encounter, Illichivets Mariupol are without a win at home for the past 3 matches in the league.

Zorya Luhansk

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Zorya Luhansk will go into this match following a 2-1 Premier League win in the defeat of Desna Chernihiv in their previous game.

A series of dependable performances from the Zorya Luhansk defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 4 from their past 6 clashes combined. During the same period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves is 11.

Going into this encounter, Zorya Luhansk are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 20/10/2018 tells us that Illichivets Mariupol have won 4 of these & Zorya Luhansk 1, with the tally of draws being 1.

14 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 9 for Mariupol and 5 created by Zorya. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.33.

📰 Team News: Illichivets Mariupol

Illichivets Mariupol boss Ostap Markevych will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all before this game owing to a completely healthy squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Zorya Luhansk

With a fully healthy group to pick from, Zorya Luhansk manager Viktor Skrypnyk has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this match.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Illichivets Mariupol have enough to get a goal against this Zorya Luhansk lineup, but one goal possibly won’t quite prevent defeat.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be a very close game with a 1-2 victory for Zorya Luhansk when the referee blows the final whistle. Let’s just see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 11:19 16/02/2021