Before the match

The Ukrainian League round 12 game kicks off at 17:00 at the OSK Metalist. You can purchase tickets at the stadium ticket office and online. We bring you a number of interesting facts before the game.

Only Shakhtar

Shakhtar is the only club in Europe to have lost no points in the current league season. Until recently, Liverpool were Shakhtar’s companions in this sense, but Jurgen Klopp's men were tied with Manchester United last weekend.

After European competitions

The current champions and bronze medalists will lock horns in Kharkiv. Both clubs had some European club cup games during the week: Shakhtar hosted Dinamo Zagreb, and Oleksandriia met with Saint-Etienne in France.

Who will win?

A very interesting game awaits fans. Oleksandriia are among the top UPL sides for the number of interceptions and the second best team in terms of pressure intensity after Zorya, while Shakhtar are the absolute leaders for attacking effectiveness and performance.

We score regularly

The Miners’ goalscoring run in the league comprises 18 games, with 53 goals scored.

Recent meetings

In 5 previous UPL games, Shakhtar defeated Oleksandriia: twice with the score of 2-0, and once with the scoreline of 1-0, 2-1, and 3-1.

Moraes, Dentinho, Teixeira

In the 2018/19 season, Junior Moraes scored a goal in each of 3 different league games vs Oleksandriia, including 2 goals in Kharkiv. Dentinho and Alex Teixeira are the best scorers in the head-to-head encounters between the clubs in the Ukrainian Championship.

7 out of 15

This season, Volodymyr Sharan’s men scored 7 away points out of 15: they defeated Zorya and Vorskla, tied with Kolos, and lost to Mariupol and Dynamo.