About Match
1 points and 1 places separate them: Karpaty 2nd with 10, Shakhtar Donetsk 3rd with 9. Per game in the league, Karpaty score 2.75 and conceding 0.5, Shakhtar Donetsk 2 and 0.75, against a competition average of 1.11 goals per team per game. A win here leaves Karpaty on 13 points and up to 1st, other results permitting.
Karpaty have not lost in 10 games, having scored in 8 consecutive games.
27 meetings are on record — 2 won by Karpaty, 21 by Shakhtar Donetsk, 4 drawn, at 3.37 goals per meeting. Expect goals on precedent — three or more in 74% of the meetings.
Stadion Ukrajina stages the fixture, a ground that holds 28,051.