Only the second game in the Erovnuli Liga 2 for these teams and it's all to play for here at Erovnuli Nakrebis Teknikuri Tsentri as Rustavi welcomes Sioni. Check out this preview!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Rustavi form and stats
The first Erovnuli Liga 2 game here at Erovnuli Nakrebis Teknikuri Tsentri resulted in a draw. Last season Rustavi's home game statistics were 1 victory, 3 draws and 4 defeats from 8 games. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
Rustavi drew their last game, also a home match. Samgurali (placed 4th) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. In the match before that, Rustavi hosted Dila and drew the Erovnuli Liga game 2-2.
Early season league goal statistics from Rustavi's 1 home game: 1 goal, 1 conceded.
Last season, Rustavi's league statistics were 2 wins, 5 draws and 10 losses, resulting in a 10th position in the Erovnuli Liga. Over these 17 matches they scored 18 goals and conceded 32. Playing at home last season Rustavi managed 1-3-4 (win-draw-lost) with 7 goals and 12 conceded.
Sioni form and stats
The loyal fans travelling with their beloved Sioni have enjoyed the stadium food more than the matches as the visitors have gone twelve consecutive matches without winning on the road. The last time three points were secured away was the WIT Georgia game.
The supporters enjoyed Sioni's previous game versus Shevardeni 1906 (placed 10th), a Erovnuli Liga 2 2-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 1-5 loss visiting Saburtalo's place.
Let's have a look at how Sioni performed last season in the Erovnuli Liga: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 4 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 22 and conceded 38 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 2 and lost 4 with 8/20 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Rustavi-Sioni H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Rustavi five wins, Sioni two wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Rustavi missing players
Sioni missing players
| Rustavi | Sioni | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| Rustavi | Last season | Sioni | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 36 | 18 | Played | P | 18 | 36 | ||
| 9 | 7 | Won | W | 2 | 10 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Drew | D | 6 | 8 | ||
| 16 | 7 | Lost | L | 10 | 18 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 15 | 38 | ||
| 56 | 24 | Conceded | C | 44 | 80 | ||
| 89% | 94% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 92% | ||
| 78% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 83% | ||
| 53% | 39% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 67% | ||
| 28% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 39% | 39% | ||
| 14% | 6% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 28% | ||
| 58% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 61% | 58% | ||
| 22% | 22% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 19% | ||
| 31% | 39% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 31% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.1 | 4 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 4.7 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.8 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 5 | ||
| 379 | 208 | Total Shots | T S | 138 | 292 | ||
| 138 | 75 | Shots on Target | S O | 50 | 117 | ||
| 28% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 32% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Shukura | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | Sioni | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Rustavi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Samgurali | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Aragvi Dusheti | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Gagra | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | WIT Georgia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Zugdidi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Merani Martvili | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 10 | Shevardeni 1906 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Dinamo Batumi | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 37 |
| 2 | Saburtalo | 17 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 35 |
| 3 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 29 |
| 4 | Torpedo Kutaisi | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 27 |
| 5 | Chikhura | 17 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | Lokomotivi Tbilisi | 17 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| 7 | Sioni | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 38 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 20 | -16 | 22 |
| 8 | Dila | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 9 | WIT Georgia | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -12 | 14 |
| 10 | Rustavi | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -14 | 11 |