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Dynamo – Shakhtar: before the match

Sunday, April 21, 2019

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The Miners will face Dynamo in the Premier League round 25 major game in Kyiv

The game is to take place at the NSC Olympiyskyi on April 24. It kicks off at 18:30.

This season

Shakhtar enjoy a 7-point lead. After 24 rounds, the champions have got 20 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. This figure is better than last season’s one (18/3/3). Dynamo also perform better now: 18 wins vs 15, fewer draws (6 back then, and 2 now), but more defeats (3/4).

Attacking leaders

Junior Moraes is topping the scorers list with 17 goals, Lviv’s Marian Shved and Kyiv’s Viktor Tsyhankov boast 14 goals each.

In great shape

The Miners won 7 games in a row, enjoying an aggregate goal difference of 16–0. Dynamo are approaching the Clasico with a winning streak of 8 UPL games (goal difference of 23-4). Alyaksandr Khatskevich’s men suffered their most recent defeats at the hands of Shakhtar and Oleksandriia in November.

Tough games

For the last time, Shakhtar and Dynamo scored more than 3 goals per game against each other in 2016/17 season, when the Kyiv outfit was headed by Serhii Rebrov. Paulo Fonseca and Alyaksandr Khatskevich met on 10 occasions in all competitions, with 2-0 being the biggest win during that period (the Miners' Super Cup and Cup final wins).
In November, the Orange-and-Blacks defeated Dynamo in Kharkiv thanks to the goals by Junior Moraes and Viktor Kovalenko (2-1)
Popov, Jadson, Teixeira

Serhii Popov is the first UL goalscorer vs Dynamo. Moreover, the former captain of the Donetsk team netted goals in two meetings in a row, which ended with the same score of 1-1. And the league‘s top scorers against the White-and-Blue team are the Brazilians Jadson and Alex Teixeira (5 goals each).

At the Olympiyskyi

The opponents’ last 5 UPL meetings at the NSC Olympiyskyi: 3 wins by Shakhtar (3-0, 4-3,1-0), one draw (0-0) and one defeat (0-1).

Passes and shots

On average, over 90 minutes, Shakhtar made 567 passes, with Dynamo having 469 passes. The Miners are leaders for the total number of shots (366/341). Interestingly, Moraes and Tsyhankov made the same number of attempts at goal (65 each) by that round.

Even distribution

Here is the distribution of goals in the last 5 league rounds: Shakhtar - 6/5, Dynamo - 7/5.

Nearing the milestones
 
For Dentinho, the next match will be his 150th appearance with Shakhtar, for David Khocholava it will be the 50th appearance.