FC Kharkiv vs Veres-Rivne

A new face at this level FC Kharkiv are among the sides stepping up to this level, and they face a Veres-Rivne that in the just-concluded campaign finished eleventh with twenty-six goals scored and forty conceded, one of the more laboured records in the lower half of the table. A context still to be written The season starts from scratch and no data yet exists on the two sides' current form: what can be said is that Veres, in the previous campaign, struggled both to score and to keep clean sheets, with just seven wins in thirty rounds. In an early-season context, where the pecking order is less defined than usual, the prospect of the hosts avoiding defeat I read at around 62%. An open-game preview, with both sides still to be assessed.