Shakhtar Donetsk vs Vorskla Poltava — Premier League 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 90+ matches
Shakhtar Donetsk63%
Vorskla Poltava16%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.2% correct across 585,598 matches, vs 44.5% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.5% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Shakhtar Donetsk creates 132% more chances
Season form · 102 home / 90 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over51
- Under49
Close call
Both teams score
- No52
- Yes48
Close call
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Shakhtar Donetsk ↓
Most likely 1–0 (13%) · grid covers 96% of scorelines
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Winning margin
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Shakhtar Donetsk at home — creates 2.47, concedes 0.72 · 102 matches
Vorskla Poltava away — creates 0.92, concedes 1.32 · 90 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Shakhtar Donetsk attack 2.47 + Vorskla Poltava defence 1.32 → ÷2 → 1.90
Vorskla Poltava attack 0.92 + Shakhtar Donetsk defence 0.72 → ÷2 → 0.82
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 63%?"
Shakhtar Donetsk at 63% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 63% does not mean "Shakhtar Donetsk will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Match Events
Vorskla Poltava substitutes
Head to Head
5 previous meetings
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Obolon'-Brovar
Bukovyna
Kryvbas KR
Polessya
Veres Rivne
Kolos Kovalivka
Metalist 1925 Kharkiv
LNZ Cherkasy
Epitsentr Dunayivtsi
Livyi Bereh
Karpaty
KudrivkaIf points are equal: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Head-to-head
P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
Shakhtar Donetsk host Vorskla Poltava on Thursday, 5 December 2024 at 16:00. The match is part of the Premier League 2026/2027 season.
Match Recap: Shakhtar Donetsk vs Vorskla Poltava
Shakhtar Donetsk beat Vorskla Poltava 3-1 in Premier League on December 5, 2024.
Goals: Newerton (14'), H. Sudakov (22'), L. Traoré (36'), I. Nesterenko (76').
The match was played at Arena Lviv in Lviv.