On Saturday, April 22, another Ukrainian classic will take place in Kyiv at the Valeriy Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium, where Dynamo and Shakhtar will meet in the 22nd round of the Ukrainian championship.
Currently, our team's opponent ranks 1st in the UPL standings with 52 points, having won 16 games, drawn 4 times and lost once. Dynamo have also played 21 matches and are in 4th place in the standings with 40 points - 12 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses.
On the eve of the match, we analyze the schedule of the top scorers in head-to-head matches among the current players of both teams.
Denys Harmash is the top scorer in the current White and Blues squad in matches against Shakhtar, with three accurate shots against the Orange and Blacks. Vitaliy Buyalsky has two goals, and a whole group of players have one accurate shot each.
Garmash - 3
Buyalsky - 2
Popov - 1
Sydorchuk - 1
Shaparenko - 1
Shepelev - 1
Vanat - 1
It should be noted that Bohdan Lednev scored for Shakhtar while on loan from Zorya Luhansk (2 goals) and Vladyslav Supryaha while on loan from Dnipro-1 (1 goal).
Most of the players who scored the most goals for Dynamo are no longer with Shakhtar. Of the current Orange and Black players, the list of the best snipers is as follows:
Rakitskiy - 2
Stepanenko - 2
Lassina Traore - 2
Zubkov - 1
Sikan - 1
In addition, a number of players from Shakhtar's current squad have scored for our team in the Ukrainian league while playing for other teams. In particular, Marian Shved scored twice for Dynamo as a member of Karpaty in the 2018/2019 season, Andriy Totovytskyi also scored twice in the 2017/2018 season, Dmytro Topalov once for Mariupol in the 2020/2021 season, Lucas Taylor for Lviv FC in October 2018, and Bohdan Mykhailychenko while on loan from our club to Zorya in December 2019.
It is also worth noting that Oleh Ocheretko scored a goal for Dynamo Mariupol in the Ukrainian Cup match.