SC Poltava – Epicenter. Forecast and announcement for the match of the championship of Ukraine

In the fifteenth round of the Ukrainian football Premier League of the 2025-2026 season, on Monday, December 8, “Poltava” and “Epicenter” will meet in Kropyvnytskyi. Both teams have been synchronously promoted to the elite division and will now try to end the first round on a high note.

SK Poltava In the last round, the Poltava players created a real sensation, because their forces beat Dynamo Kyiv, which was then in a so-called crisis. The players themselves note that they managed to fulfill the coach’s instructions, and the victory over Kyiv was not so difficult for “Poltava”.

But the joy and preparation of the team for the match with “Epicenter” was canceled by the death of the head coach of “Poltava” Volodymyr Sysenko, who trained the team since its foundation. Yes, with this news, the psychological state of the team has partially decreased, but first of all, it will be important for the Poltava club to dedicate this match to their mentor, who went with the team from amateurs to the UPL.

It should be noted that the disqualified Dmytro Plakhtyr will miss the match. Yevhen Opanasenko, Vadym Pidlepych and Oleg Veremienko will also not play due to injuries.

Epicenter As for “Epicenter”, from the pluses we can single out the fact that Serhiy Nagornyak’s team gradually began to feel their game, and unlike the start of the season, now it looks much more convincing and bolder.

We can also note that in the last round, “Epicenter” managed to take the first points at home, drawing with “Metalist 1925”, and before that, the people of Khmelnytskyi also managed to take points from the equally formidable “Polyssia”.

Therefore, now “Epicenter” has two games left before the winter break, in which it is necessary to take maximum points in order to try to increase the distance from direct relegation, and to protect itself from transitional matches. Next up is the match against Poltava, in which Epicenter must play as well as possible to take three points.

The injured Ivan Bendera will not take part in the match against Poltava.

Match statistics The teams played four matches between themselves at the official level, in which 3 victories of “Epicenter” and a draw were recorded. The difference in goals scored is 8 – 4 in favor of “Epicenter”. The last match ended with the victory of the team from Khmelnytskyi with a score of 2:0. In that match, goals were scored by Dmytro Plakhtyr (own goal) and Ivan Bendera.

Forecast for the confrontation The participants of this confrontation are at the bottom of the tournament table. But this does not mean that “Poltava” or “Epicenter” will spend the whole match in defense in order to keep the desired score. Taking into account that both teams need points, we predict that there will be enough scoring opportunities, where both teams will score (yes).

Estimated compositions:

“Poltava”: Voskonyan, Kotsyumaka, Savenkov, Mysyura, Buzhyn, Galenko, Danylenko, Doroshenko, Odaryuk, Marusych, Vyvdych

“Epicenter”: Bilyk, Klymets, Kosh, Moroz, Kyryukhantsev, Zaporozhets, Seberio, Sifuentes, Myronyuk, Boryachuk, Supryaga

Bookmakers GGBET rate the teams’ chances with very decent coefficients: 4.29 for SC Poltava and 1.78 for Epicenter. And which forecast to choose is up to you. Play with the best odds, get instant payouts and support your favorite team with us.