On Friday, November 3, FC Dynamo Kyiv will host FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League matchday 13 game.
The game will start at 17:00 at the Dynamo Stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskyi. It will be broadcasted by 2+2, Dynamo TV, Dynamo YouTube and FootballHub.
Officials
Referee – Yaroslav Kozyk (Mukacheve)
Assistant referees – Semen Shlonchak (Cherkasy), Andriy Skrypka (Kropyvnytskyi)
Fourth official – Dmytro Panchyshyn (Kharkiv)
Referee observer – Andriy Shandor (Lviv)
VAR – Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region)
Assistant VAR – Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson)
VAR observer – Olexandr Voitiuk (Zaporizhzhia)
Dynamo
UPL position – 7 (9 matches, 5 wins, 1 draw, 3 defeats, goal difference – 23:15, 16 points).
Current season
Dynamo winless streak already makes three games. In the upcoming match Mircea Lucescu can’t count on the forward Vladyslav Vanat, who was suspended in the previous game.
5 previous games: 1 win, 1 draw, 3 defeats
October 28. UPL. Kolos – Dynamo – 1:1
October 22. UPL. Dynamo – Dnipro-1 – 0:1
October 6. UPL. Polissia – Dynamo – 3:2
October 1. UPL. Dynamo – Oleksandria – 4:2
September 27. Ukrainian Cup. Obolon – Dynamo – 1:0
2023/2024 UPL players’ statistics
Most appearances: 9 – Buialskyi, Vanat, Dubinchak, Brazhko, 8 – Bushchan, Voloshyn, 7 – Syrota, Tymchyk, Karavayev.
Most starting lineup appearances: 9– Buialskyi, Vanat, 8 – Bushchan, 7 – Dubinchak, 6 – Tymchyk, Popov, Brazhko, Voloshyn, Yarmolenko.
Most time played: Buialskyi – 810 minutes, Bushchan – 720, Vanat – 714, Dubinchak – 686, Brazhko – 592.
Goalscorers: Buialskyi – 6 goals, Vanat, Yarmolenko – 4, Brazhko – 3, Voloshyn – 2, Tymchyk, Karavayev, Benito, Sydorchuk – 1.
Suspended: Vanat.
Shakhtar
UPL position – 4 (10 matches, 6 wins, 3 draws, 1 defeat, goal difference – 20:10, 21 points).
Current season
Shakhtar keep performing in three competitions. The game against Dynamo will take place between two Champions League matches against Barcelona. In the Ukrainian Cup, they recently succeeded against FC Viktoriya Sumy.
5 previous games: 3 wins, 2 defeats
October 30. Ukrainian Cup. Viktoriya – Shakhtar – 0:3
October 25. CL. Barcelona – Shakhtar – 2:1
October 21. UPL. Shakhtar – LNZ – 3:0
October 4. CL. Antwerp – Shakhtar – 2:3
September 30. UPL. Shakhtar – Vorskla – 1:2
2023/2024 UPL players’ statistics
Most appearances: 10 – Kryskiv, Zubkov, Sikan, 9 – Riznyk, 8 – Nazaryna, Kelsy.
Most starting lineup appearances: 10 – Zubkov, 9 – Riznyk, Kryskiv, Sikan, 7 – Gocholeishvili, Stepanenko, Kashchuk.
Most time played: Riznyk – 810 minutes, Kryskiv – 764, Zubkov – 749, Sikan – 671, Stepanenko – 562.
Goalscorers: Matviyenko, Kashchuk – 3, Kryskiv, Sikan, Nazaryna, Sudakov, Traore, Kelsy – 2, Zubkov, Viunnyk – 1.
Suspended: —
Face to face
Total – 193 matches: 84 Dynamo wins, 47 draws, 61 Shakhtar wins, goal difference – 256:221 for Dynamo.
In the UPL – 69 matches: 25 Dynamo wins, 19 draws, 26 Shakhtar wins, goal difference – 86:84 for Shakhtar.
5 previous face-to-face games
22.04.2023. UPL. Dynamo – Shakhtar – 1:1
16.10.2022. UPL. Shakhtar – Dynamo – 3:1
03.10.2021. UPL. Dynamo – Shakhtar – 0:1
22.09.2021. Super Cup. Shakhtar – Dynamo – 3:0
17.04.2021. UPL. Shakhtar – Dynamo – 0:1
Previous face-to-face game
2022/23 UPL. Matchday 22
22.04.2023. Kyiv, Dynamo Stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskyi
Dynamo – Shakhtar – 1:1
Goals: Andriyevskyi (82) – Stepanenko (12).