Preview

November 17, Shchaslyve,Kniazha Arena, 11:00

Live stream on Shakhtar TV

Before the match

On the meeting’s eve,Fernando Valente's team has a shortage of attacking players: the league’s top scorer Bohdan Viunnyk, along with Denys Shostak and Eduard Kobak, will not be able to benefit the team due to health issues, while Heorhii Sudakov has been called up to the national team of Ukraine.

Fernando Valente: “In every game we must display our best qualities and fight to win. We suffered defeats in the previous two games, but we continue working and improving. We are experiencing some personnel issues at the moment, but we should make it with the available personnel and do our best to win. I will not use the first-team players, but I plan to involve several people from Shakhtar U19".

Opponents

Since the beginning of the season, Serhii Hrybanov's lads have scored 13 points in 7 matches (with the goal differenceof 12-11), sitting in the 6th spot together with Kolos, with the Kovalivka team having two more games in hand though. The Mariupol side had their last game nearly a month agobecause they have missed two rounds due to COVID-19. On October 24, they defeated Inhulets 2-0 away. The top scorer is Anton Baidal (with 7 goals he occupies the 2nd spot among the goal scorers).

Head-to-head record

The opponents had 26 encounters: Shakhtar won 15 times, Mariupol won  on 5 occasions, with another 6 fixtures ending in ties. The aggregate goal difference is 58-24 in favour of the Miners, but in the last meeting the Mariupol footballers proved stronger.

Last game

November 30, 2019. Mariupol

Mariupol U21 1-0 (1-0) Shakhtar Donetsk U21 (Donetsk)

Goal: 1-0 Koshkosh (19’)

Shakhtar U21: Hrytsenko, Melichenko, Muravskyi, Semenikhin (Svityukha 86’), Pavlish, Prykhodko, Kryskiv (c) (Dukhota 72’), Ocheretko (Rudavskyi 81’), Sudakov, Viunnyk, Chyruk (Hurov 77’)