Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Veres 3rd with 67 points, Poltava 11th with 43, 24 apart. Veres had been under-performing their position — 14th on five-round form against 3rd in the table. Per game in the league, Poltava were scoring 0.97 and conceding 1.26, Veres 1.82 and 0.94, against a competition average of 1.14 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Veres, winners of their last four, having scored in 11 consecutive games.
Stadion Vorskla im. Oleksiya Butov'skogo in Poltava, capacity 24,795, hosted the game. Veres led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.


