Match Report
20 points separated the sides: Dnipro-1 4th on 52, Zorya 10th on 32. On recent form Dnipro-1 sat only 9th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 4th overall. Per game in the league, Dnipro-1 were scoring 1.33 and conceding 0.9, Zorya 0.97 and 1.23, against a competition average of 1.24 goals per team per game.
The head-to-head ledger counts 8 games: 2 Dnipro-1 wins, 5 for Zorya, 1 draw, at 2.88 goals per meeting. Only 38% of these meetings ended in a home win. History points to goals: 63% of the meetings had three or more.
Dnipro Arena in Dnipropetrovs'k, capacity 31,003, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 4 more goals closed it at 2-2.