Preview

At 16:00 Kyiv time, watch the match against the Polish Lech Poznan live exclusively on Shakhtar TVand Shakhtar Club. The club channel is available on the Volia network, satellite Xtra TV, as well as on the platforms of MEGOGO, OLL.TV, Sweet.tv and Divan.tv.

We’ve played for 3 years in a row

Shakhtar and Lech consistently hold their training camps in Turkey and have been meeting each other in friendlies for three years now. In January 2019, the Miners won 3-0 (goals scored by Junior Moraes, Manor Solomon and Olarenwaju Kayode), in 2020 they won 1-0 (a goal by Sergii Kryvtsov).

Vice-champions of Poland

Lech are the vice-champions of Poland. The Blue-and-Whites finished the 2019/20 season three points behind Legia. Interestingly, the teams finished the season with the same goal difference of 70-35. Although in winter Lechwerejust in the 5th spot, they managed to push Piast off the second spot after a successful performance in the championship round (5 wins, 2 draws, 0 defeats). The Railwaymen previously claimed the title in 2015.

He was a captain under Castro

The midfielder Pedro Tiba used to play under Luis Castro at Chaves back in the 2017/18 season, even as the team captain. He moved there from Braga, although he did not play under Paulo Fonseca due to his loan spell at the Spanish Valladolid. The player has been at Lech since the summer 2018.

Old acquaintances

The Ukrainian Vasyl Kravets who has been loaned out to Lech by Leganes will meet with his compatriots. When he used to be a Karpaty footballer, he suffered four defeats at the hands of Shakhtar. A Lech striker Mohammed Awaed previously played forIsrael U21 with Manor Solomon. They also confronted each other three times in the cleague playing for Maccabisof Haifa and Petach Tikva, with Solomon's team never losing. However, David Khocholava will not meet with his team-mate Nika Kacharava - unfortunately, the forward is injured.

At differentworkload stages

In nine days’ time (January 30), Lech will resume their campaign in the Polish Ekstraklasa with an away match vs Gornik, and will host Zaglebie on February 5th. Both opponents currently have a higher standing in the table than the 9th spot Lech Poznan.