Match Report
The table gap was wide: 39 points between Metal Kharkiv (1st, 62 pts) and Peremoga (8th, 23 pts). Per game in the league, Peremoga were scoring 0.95 and conceding 1.32, Metal Kharkiv 2.95 and 0.23, against a competition average of 1.38 goals per team per game.
Metal Kharkiv entered with three wins in a row. Over the last five, Peremoga had taken 4 of 15 points to Metal Kharkiv's 13.
The venue was Oblasny SportKomplex Metalist in Kharkiv, with room for 40,003 spectators. On the scoreboard, Metal Kharkiv led 3-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 0-4.