On Tuesday, January 31, Shakhtar Donetsk will play the third friendly match at the pre-season training camp in Turkey. The rival of Igor Jovicevich’s team will be the Bulgarian club Ludogorets. The game will start at 16:30 Kyiv time.
Miner
Shakhtar Donetsk will play the third friendly match in 2023 at the second pre-season training camp in Turkey. In the two previous matches, the Pitmen were left without victories, so they will try to eliminate this shortcoming in the confrontation with the Bulgarian Ludogorets.
In the first winter friendly, Shakhtar sorted things out with Austria Wien and were defeated 1-2. Then there was a meeting with the Slovenian Koper. She brought a productive draw – 2:2. Let us note that in both sparrings the Pitmen conceded two goals each, while they scored incrementally: first, once, then twice.
Recall that in the UPL standings, Shakhtar are in second place in the first part of the 2022/2023 season, with 30 points after 13 matches. At the moment, Jovičević’s team is preparing, first of all, for the Europa League playoff matches with French Rennes. On February 16, the team in Warsaw will play the first game of the 1/16 finals, and on the 23rd they will play for the second time already in France.
Ludogorets
The Bulgarian club “Ludogorets” from Razgrad takes the second place in the standings of the national championship. In 18 matches, he scored 43 points. This is one point less, CSKA Sofia, which is in first place, has a week.
Ludogorets lost its leadership in the Bulgarian championship in the final round of the first part of the season. He ate on his own and played a 0:0 draw with Levski, while the capital’s army team won a away victory over Cherno More – 2:0.
During the current winter training, Ludogorets held four sparring matches, in which they achieved two victories, one draw and one loss. At first, he lost 1:2 to the German “Hannover”, and then broke the world with the Polish “Zaglebie” – 2:2. And then there were two victories – 3:2 in the game with Red Star from Belgrade and 2:1 in the match with Dinamo from Tbilisi.
Forecast for confrontation
We believe that in the upcoming match its nominal hosts, Donetsk Pitmen, will show their class and achieve victory. Our bet will be the position – P1 with a coefficient of 1.95 on the Parimatch line.
January 31, Tuesday
