{"id":1382864,"date":"2026-04-16T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/on-the-road-to-the-semi-finals-az-vs-shakhtar-donetsk-match-prediction-and-preview\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:03:25","slug":"on-the-road-to-the-semi-finals-az-vs-shakhtar-donetsk-match-prediction-and-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/on-the-road-to-the-semi-finals-az-vs-shakhtar-donetsk-match-prediction-and-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road to the semi-finals: AZ vs. Shakhtar Donetsk match prediction and preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"327\"><strong>Today, April 16, the second leg of the Conference League quarterfinals will take place in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where Shakhtar Donetsk will face AZ Alkmaar. The first leg, played a week ago, ended 3-0 in favor of the Ukrainian team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"665\">A three-goal lead is considered quite comfortable, so it&#8217;s logical that the Donetsk club is the favorite in this match. However, comebacks from three-goal defeats have occurred in football history. The most recent example was the match between Bod\u00f8-Glimt and Sporting, when the Portuguese team, after a 3-0 defeat in the first leg, won the return match 5-0.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"811\">At the same time, in Shakhtar&#8217;s European history there are no cases where, after a 3-0 victory, the team ended up losing on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"813\" data-end=\"1019\">An additional motivation for Shakhtar is the opportunity to reach the European Cup semifinals. The last time the Miners reached this far was in the 2019-2020 season, when they lost to Inter Milan in the Europa League semifinals.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1021\" data-end=\"1250\">Bookmakers are giving a slight edge to Dutch side AZ Alkmaar, who, incidentally, have already defeated Shakhtar twice in the 2004-2005 UEFA Cup. A high-scoring match is also expected, but the Ukrainian team is likely to advance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1267\"><strong data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1267\">Where to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1269\" data-end=\"1426\">The return match between <strong>AZ Alkmaar and Shakhtar<\/strong> kicks off at 7:45 PM Kyiv time. It will be broadcast on the <strong>MEGOGO<\/strong> platform, which holds the official rights to European Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1269\" data-end=\"1426\">Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 16, the second leg of the Conference League quarterfinals will take place in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, where Shakhtar Donetsk will face AZ Alkmaar. The first leg, played a week ago, ended 3-0 in favor of the Ukrainian team. A three-goal lead is considered quite comfortable, so it&#8217;s logical that the Donetsk club is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1382849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76895],"class_list":["post-1382864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382865,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382864\/revisions\/1382865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1382849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}