"Kryvbas" - "Epicentr". Preview

Kryvbas is completing preparations for the first home match of the UPL in 2026. In the first round match, the teams played a real thriller. One team was ahead, then the other, and in the end, Epicentr almost won 2:5 - 4:5 in favor of Kryvyi Rih.

In the past 20 rounds, the red-and-whites lost to Polissya away - 0:2. As for the opponent, they beat Rukh in a nominal home match - 2:0. After this victory, Serhii Nagorniak's team improved its tournament position and came very close to 12th place, which guarantees a place in the UPL next season.

The opponent's midfielder Seberio, who has a lot of yellow cards, will definitely not play tomorrow. This will be only the second match in the history of the teams' confrontation.

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Ukrainian Championship 2025\2026. VBET League. Round 21.

"Kryvbas" Kryvyi Rih - "Epicentr" Kamianets-Podilskyi.

March 21, 2026, Saturday. Kryvyi Rih. "Hirnyk" Stadium. 13:00.

Referee appointments:

Referee: Oleg Kohut (Ternopil).

Assistant referees: Mykhailo Yukhymenko (Lutsk), Pavlo Kotubey (Zakarpattia region).

Fourth referee: Dmytro Osaulenko (Kyiv).

Referee observer: Serhiy Voznyak (Mykolaiv).

VAR referee: Ihor Paskhal (Kherson).

Assistant VAR: Artem Mykhailiuk (Kyiv).

VAR observer: Valeriy Kurganov (Cherkasy).

UAF delegate: Oleg Bazai (Zaporizhzhia).

Broadcast: UPL TV.

Last match of the opponent in the championship:

"Epicentr" - "Ruh" 2:0 (0:0). VBET League 2025\2026. 20 round. 03/15/2026.

Goals: Joaquin Sifuentes, penalty, 52 (1:0). Vadym Sydun, 87 (2:0).

"Epicentr": Bilyk, Kyryukhantsev, Moroz (c), Hryhorashchuk, Luchkevych (Klymets, 90), Mironyuk (Zaporizhets, 64), Seberio, Rojas, Kovalets (Demchenko, 46), Cifuentes (Matkevych, 77), Supryaga (Sydun, 64).

Substitutes: Fedotov, Vavshko, Lipovuz, Bezhenar, Kristin, Oliveira.

Head coach: Serhiy Nagornyak.

Interesting facts:

- in total, only 1 match was played between the rivals in the championships of Ukraine: +1=0-0 (5-4);

- Kryvbas played nine times in the current season as part of home matches: +5=3-1 (18-9) - 18 points;

- the unbeaten home series of the red-and-whites continues in the UPL for 6 games: 3 wins, 3 draws;

- the drawless series continues in the UPL for 6 games: 3 wins and 3 losses.

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