📏 Form Guide

Vorskla Poltava

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Vorskla Poltava will play in this match after a 1-1 Premier League stalemate against Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.

It has not been often in recent times where Vorskla Poltava have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Vorskla Poltava have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 9 goals during that time.

Coming into this contest, Vorskla Poltava haven't been beaten in the league by Shakhtar Donetsk in their last 2 matches.

Shakhtar Donetsk

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Shakhtar Donetsk go into this encounter after a 3-1 Premier League win with the defeat of Rukh Lviv in their most recent game.

For Shakhtar Donetsk, the goals were scored by Artem Bondarenko (8', 17') and Oleksandr Zubkov (76'). Talles (36') was the scorer for Rukh Lviv.

In their last 6 outings, Shakhtar Donetsk have helped themselves to a tally of 19 goals. Shakhtar Donetsk have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they’ve had 5 goals go into their own net. We shall soon find out if that trend can be sustained here.

Going into this contest, Shakhtar Donetsk are undefeated in their previous 9 away league matches. Travelling very well.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 24/10/2020 shows that Vorskla Poltava have won 2 of these games & Shakhtar Donetsk 3, with the number of drawn matches being 1.

A combined total of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 7 of them for Zeleno-Bili and 10 created by Hirnyky. That’s an average goals per game of 2.83.

The last league match between the two was Premier League match day 9 on 30/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Shakhtar Donetsk 1-2 Vorskla Poltava.

In that game, Shakhtar Donetsk had 47% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Oleksandr Zubkov (57').

Vorskla Poltava had 5 shots on goal with 2 on target. Oleksandr Sklyar (22') was the scorer.

ℹ️ Team News: Vorskla Poltava

The Vorskla Poltava boss Viktor Skrypnyk has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go.

📰 Team News: Shakhtar Donetsk

Shakhtar Donetsk boss Marino Pušić has some current player fitness concerns. Eguinaldo (unknown injury), Tymur Puzankov (Cruciate ligament tear) and Dmytro Chygrynskyi (unknown injury) are those who can’t be considered.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that Shakhtar Donetsk should get the goals that they need when they come up against Vorskla Poltava, who might well find it difficult going to find the back of the net.

Our selection here is for a decent 0-2 winning margin for Shakhtar Donetsk at the end of the 90 minutes.

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

Lucas Pereira, 09:04 14/04/2024