On Wednesday, October 30, FC Dynamo Kyiv will start their 2024/2025 Ukrainian Cup campaign with the round of 16.
At this stage the White-Blues will face FC Vorskla Poltava. The game will take place at the Vorskla Stadium named after O. Butovskyi in Poltava. Kick-off – 15:30.
VORSKLA
UPL position – 12 (11 matches: 2 wins, 4 draws, 5 defeats, goal difference – 11:17, 10 points).
Current season
The season isn’t really a success for Vorskla so far. The winless streak of the team makes eight games which resulted in sacking of the former gaffer Serhii Dolhanskyi, who stayed at the club as the goalkeeper coach. Before the previous game Yurii Maksymov was appointed as the head coach, who was in charge of the team in 2019-2022.
In the first game after his return Vorskla faced FC Veres Rivne away. That match ended in a draw – 2:2.
5 previous official games: 2 draws, 3 defeats
October 27. UPL. Veres – Vorskla – 2:2
October 19. UPL. Oleksandria – Vorskla – 1:0
October 6. UPL. Polissia – Vorskla – 2:1
September 30. UPL. Zoria – Vorskla – 2:0
September 22. UPL. Kryvbas – Vorskla – 1:1
2024/2025 season players’ statistics
Most appearances: 11 – Isenko, Chornomorets, Huchek, Kane, Nesterenko, 10 – Perduta, Khrypchuk, Skliar, Ndukve, Kovtaliuk, Iyede.
Most starting lineup appearances: 11 – Isenko, Chornomorets, Huchek, Kane, 10 – Perduta, 8 – Skliar, Krupskyi, Cheliadin.
Most time played: 990 minutes – Isenko, 946 – Chornomorets, 921 – Gucek, 897 – Perduta, 846 – Kane.
Goalscorers: 2 – Kane, Iyede, Kovtaliuk, 1 – Cheliadin, Nesterenko, Skliar, Miakushko, Korniyenko.
DYNAMO
UPL position – 1 (10 matches: 8 wins, 2 draws, goal difference – 22:6, 26 points).
Current season
The White-Blues have had a rough week. After the away game against AS Roma, Dynamo returned to Kyiv on Saturday while on Sunday they faced FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The draw let Kyivans stay at the top of the UPL table.
5 previous official games: 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats
October 27. UPL. Dynamo – Shakhtar – 1:1
October 24. EL. Roma – Dynamo – 1:0
October 19. UPL. Obolon – Dynamo – 1:5
October 6. UPL. Dynamo – Kryvbas – 2:1
October 3. EL. Hoffenheim – Dynamo – 2:0
2024/2025 season players’ statistics
Most appearances: 10 – Braharu, Kabayev, 9 – Bushchan, Mykhavko, Buialskyi.
Most starting lineup appearances: 9 – Bushchan, 8 – Kabayev, Tymchyk, Mykhavko, 7 – Brazhko, Buialskyi.
Most time played: 810 minutes – Bushchan, 717 – Mykhavko, 717 – Tymchyk, 635 – Kabayev, 596 – Buialskyi.
Goalscorers: 3 – Buialskyi, Vanat, Karavayev, 2 – Brazhko, Shaparenko, Yarmolenko, Pikhalionok, Rubchynskyi, 1 – Braharu, Ceballos, Mykhavko.
Officials
Referee – O. Afanasiev (Kharkiv)
Assistant referees – V. Matiash (Donetsk), Y. Trekhlib (Dnipro)
Fourth official – D. Reznikov (Kamianske)
Referee observer – O. Voitiuk (Zaporizhzhia)
Face to face
Dynamo and Vorskla faced each other in the UPL, Ukrainian Cup and Super Cup 62 times:
- 46 Dynamo wins.
- 2 Dynamo wins on penalties.
- 9 draws.
- 5 Vorskla wins.
Goal difference – 134:41 for Dynamo.
Dynamo biggest win – 8:0.
Vorskla biggest win – 3:1, 2:0.
In the Ukrainian Cup – 3 matches: 2 Dynamo wins, 1 draw and Dynamo win on penalties.
Goal difference – 6:1.
Previous face-to-face game
2024/2025 UPL. Matchday 4 postponed game
Dynamo – Vorskla – 3:1
18.09.2024. Kyiv, Dynamo Stadium named after Valerii Lobanovskyi, 1 800 spectators.
Goals: Ceballos (33), Karavayev (35), Pikhalionok (90+1) – Iyede (81).
