"Kryvbas" - SC "Poltava". Preview

After two consecutive away matches in Lviv and Kyiv, Kryvbas returns to its home stadium, where it will face another UPL debutant - SC Poltava. The teams have never met in official matches before.

History only remembers the meeting of Poltava with Kryvbas-2 in 2020 in the Ukrainian Amateur League, when the opponent was stronger in Kryvyi Rih than our youth team - 3:1 (Kirpichenko-2, Misyailo - Kozlenko). Currently, Poltava is last in the table, and in the 10th round they drew with Kolos in Kropyvnytskyi, where they play home matches, 2:2.

As for Kryvbas, Patrick van Leeuwen's team, after winning over Ruh - 2:1, lost to Dynamo in the 10th round - 0:4. This defeat has pushed Kryvyi Rih to 5th place in the table, but we all understand that the fight for the top spots in the UPL is just beginning.

Unfortunately, Kryvyi Rih's defensive midfielder, Venezuelan and one of the fans' favorites, Andrusw Araujo, will definitely not play in Saturday's match. He will miss the match due to a series of yellow cards, of which he already has four.

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Ukrainian Championship 2025\2026. VBET League. Round 11.

"Kryvbas" Kryvyi Rih - SC "Poltava" Poltava.

Saturday, November 1, 2025. Kryvyi Rih. "Girnyk" Stadium. 13:00.

Referee appointments:

Referee: Serhiy Zadyran (Kyiv region).

Assistant referees: Nazariy Tsmokanych (Lviv), Maksym Chos (Kyiv region).

Fourth referee: Andriy Zaitsev (Donetsk region).

Referee observer: Valeriy Kurganov (Cherkasy).

UAF delegate: Mykhailo Kalita (Mykolaiv).

VAR referee: Roman Blavatskyi (Lviv).

VAR assistant: Oleksandr Solov'yan (Kyiv region).

VAR observer: Oleksandr Derdo (Chornomorsk).

Broadcast: UPL TV.

The opponent's last match in the championship:

Poltava - Kolos 2:2 (1:0). VBET League 2025\2026. 10 round. 26.10.2025.

Goals: Volodymyr Odaryuk, 5 (1:0). Mathias Oevusi, 67 (1:1). Mykola Buzhin, 70 (2:1). Telles, penalty, 76 (2:2).

Poltava: Voskonyan, Kotsyumaka, Misyura, Veremienko, Buzhin, Plakhtyr (k) (Kakhlev, 61), Doroshenko (Opanasenko, 61), Galenkov (Kononov, 81), Marusych (Shapovalov, 81), Odaryuk, Vivdych (Streltsov, 90+4).

Substitutes: Minchev, Yermolov, Khodulya, Savenkov, Onishchenko.

Head coach: Pavlo Matviichenko.

Interesting facts:

- The history of the teams' matches in the championships of Ukraine does not include a single match - this will be the debut meeting;

- Kryvbas's drawless home series in the championship lasts 12 rounds: 8 wins, 4 losses;

- Poltava has not won in the championship for 8 games: 6 losses, 2 draws.

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