Facts and figures

The Orange-and-Blacks retained the 13-point lead over Zorya Luhansk, with the scoring race leader Junior Moraes netting his 16th goal in 18 games.

Mister’s 20 wins

Shakhtar have claimed the 20th victory under Luis Castro, scoring 70 goals.

Ismaily’s 200 apps

The left-back has already made 200 appearances for the club in all competitions (132 league apps, 18 Cup ones, 5 Super Cup ones, and 45 international apps). He made his debut on May 19, 2013 at the age of 23 in a meeting vs Metalurh Zaporizhia.

Taison’s 50 goals

The Brazilian has scored his 50th goal for the club. Interestingly, he started scoring goals for Shakhtar in the same game vs Metalurh Zaporizhia, in which Ismaily made his debut. Taison scored 33 league goals, 6 Cup ones, 1 Super Cup goal, 4 Champions League goals, and 6 Europa League ones. His favourite opponents are Chornomorets, Zorya, and Mariupol (4 goals vs each).

170/120/10

Sergii Kryvtsov made his 120th UPL appearance with the Miners and the 170th one in all competitions. His early goal is the 10th domestic league goal for Shakhtar.

Multiple attempts

Shakhtar produced a record number of shots in the current UPL campaign (22), surpassing their own shooting performance in the games vs Oleksandriia and Zorya (21 vs each), striking on 15 occasions from outside the penalty area. The leader for the number of shots is Taison (5 aggregately, 3 on target, 1 goal), Tete made 4 attempts, Konoplyanka had 3 attempts (1 goal).

Ball delivery

This season, Matviienko has made the most deliveries into the final third - 24 passes (20 completed), Kryvtsov - 21 passes, Stepanenko and Maycon - 19 passes each.