On Sunday, May 5, FC Dynamo Kyiv will host FC Kolos Kovalivka in the Ukrainian Premier League matchday 27 game. Kick-off – 15:30
DYNAMO
UPL position – 2 (26 matches: 19 wins, 3 draws, 4 defeats, goal difference – 62:25, 60 points).
Current season
The league title race is on the finish line. Dynamo and Shakhtar are to play four more games each. Dynamo are four points behind with face-to-face match still ahead. Thus each game is like a final now.
5 previous official games: 5 wins
May 1. UPL. Dynamo – Veres – 3:0
April 27. UPL. Dnipro-1 – Dynamo – 1:2
April 21. UPL. Dynamo – Polissia – 3:0
April 17. UPL. Mynai – Dynamo – 1:3
April 13. UPL. Oleksandria – Dynamo – 0:1
2023/2024 UPL players’ statistics
Most appearances: 25 – Vanat, 23 – Bushchan, Brazhko, 22 – Voloshyn, Kabayev.
Most starting lineup appearances: 24 – Vanat, 23 – Bushchan, 20 – Popov, 19 – Brazhko, Tymchyk.
Most time played: Bushchan – 2070 minutes, Vanat – 2015, Brazhko – 1782, Popov – 1716, Tymchyk – 1606.
Goalscorers: Vanat – 13, Buialskyi – 9, Yarmolenko – 7, Brazhko, Voloshyn – 6, Kabayev – 4, Shaparenko – 3, Karavayev, Benito, Tymchyk, Shepelev – 2, Diachuk, Popov, Andriyevskyi, Ponomarenko, Sydorchuk – 1.
Suspended: Tymchyk, Vanat.
KOLOS
UPL position – 9 (25 matches: 6 wins, 11 draws, 8 defeats, goal difference – 18:19, 29 points).
Current season
Kolos are in the middle in the league table although they haven’t secured the UPL spot for the next season yet. In the second half of the season they won only two games and suffered five defeats.
5 previous official games: 1 win, 2 draws, 2 defeats
April 28. UPL. Kolos – Oleksandria – 0:0
April 20. UPL. Vorskla – Kolos – 0:2
April 14. UPL. Polissia – Kolos – 1:0
April 7. UPL. Kolos – Metalist 1925 – 1:1
March 31. UPL. Kolos – Dnipro-1 – 0:2
2023/2024 UPL players’ statistics
Most appearances: 25 – Fesiun, 24 – bezborodko, 23 – Bondarenko, Burda, Demchenko.
Most starting lineup appearances: 25 – Fesiun, 23 – Bondarenko, Burda, 20 – Demchenko, Luchkevych.
Most time played: Fesiun – 2250 minutes, Bondarenko – 2070, Burda – 2050, Luchkevych – 1736, Demchenko – 1700.
Goalscorers: Tsurikov – 3, Bezborodko, Veleten, Luchkevych, Milko – 2, Burda, Orikhovskyi, Illin, Salabai, Paulauskas – 1.
Suspended: —
Officials
Referee – Denys Shurman (Kyiv region)
Assistant referees – Y. Povazhnyi (Kharkiv) S. Dariichuk (Chernivtsi region)
Fourth official – O. Afanasiev (Kharkiv)
Referee observer – O. Derdo (Chornomorsk)
VAR – R. Blavatskyi (Lviv)
Assistant VAR – V. Volodin (Kherson)
VAR observer – V. Derdo (Chornomorsk)
Face to face
Total in the UPL – 10:
6 Dynamo wins, 3 draws, 1 Kolos win.
Goal difference – 24:6 for Dynamo
Previous face-to-face game
UPL. Matchday 12
Kolos – Dynamo – 1:1
28.10.2023.Kovalivka, Kolos Stadium
Goals: Luchkevych (51) – Tymchyk (19).
