LNZ – ​​Zorya. Forecast and announcement for the match of the championship of Ukraine

On Saturday, December 13, the match of the 16th round of the Ukrainian Premier League will take place, in which Cherkasy LNZ and Luhansk “Zorya” will play. The match will be held in Cherkasy on the field of the Cherkasy-Arena stadium, starting at 3:30 p.m.

• All the highlights of the match are available LIVE in Telegram Sport.ua

LNZ LNZ clearly shocked everyone by the results of the first round. Admit it, but who among you could believe that the Cherkasy team will finish the first half of the season in first place in the table? And the situation is not the same as in the past seasons, when the first places were occupied by teams that trivially had more matches played than “Dynamo” or “Shakhtar”, therefore, accordingly, after the number of matches was equalized, someone from the usual two ended up at the head of the table.

No, this time everything is normal. True, “Shakhtar” has the same number of points as Vitaliy Ponomariov’s wards, but we all remember how LNZ drove the “miners” face down on the lawn in a one-on-one match, defeating them with a score of 4:1.

LNZ this season is associated with three concepts: stability in defense (only eight conceded, which is the best result), the head coach Vitaly Ponomarev (the creator of this success) and the Nigerian Prosper Oba, who is one of the best scorers in the championship, simply tearing up his right flank.

Unfortunately, Prosper will not play in this match, as he found out a few days ago that he received a three-match suspension (although one game is conditional) for inappropriate behavior in the 11th round game against Karpaty. Obviously, the game of the last round against “Obolon” (3:0, one of the goals was scored precisely thanks to Oba’s extravaganza) was the last for the winger for LNZ, as it is not particularly hidden that after the first round he will move to “Shakhtar”.

Due to disqualification, Nonikashvili and Horin will also not play.

Star If LNZ has the same number of points as Shakhtar, then Zorya has the same number as Dynamo, sharing seventh-eighth place with Kyiv (if I had read these lines a year ago, I would have been shocked. And it is clearly not about Zorya’s place). However, the distance to the fourth place is two points, to the third – four, so everything can change at any moment, because the table is very dense.

“Zorya” performs quite well, having lost only once in the last nine matches – to “Polyssia”. This is a big credit, firstly, to the coaching staff, which analyzes each opponent in detail (read the reviews of the “Zorya” players about Skrypnyk after the match against “Dynamo”), and secondly, to Pylyp Budkivskyi, who leads his team, scoring in almost every second match and, together with Oba and Klimchuk, being at the top of the scorers’ list.

However, Budkivskyi, like Oba, will not play in this game, also due to disqualification.

Meeting history Five matches were played between the teams, LNZ won three times and two games ended in a draw, in particular, and the game of the first round, in which no goals were scored. The goal difference is 7:4.

Estimated compositions “LNZ”: Palamarchuk – Pasich, Daiko, Muravskyi, Drambaev – Ryabov, Pastukh – Bennett, Yashari, Kuzyk – Assinor

“Star”: Saputin – Vantukh, Jordan, Yanich, Junior Reis – Kushnirenko, Popara – Slesar, Andjusic, Popara – Horbach

Forecast for the confrontation The teams will be a little bloodless, Ob’s absence will be especially noticeable, but we will still bet that the Cherkasy team will win and remain at the top of the table.

Bookmakers GGBET rate the chances of the teams with very decent coefficients: 1.84 for LNZ and 4.85 for “Zorya”. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.