Struggling Volgar Astrakhan will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Neftekhimik in the upcoming league round. It’s 15th vs 7th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
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.
It's quite the trip for Neftekhimik when visiting Astrakhan as the cities are 1400 kilometers apart.
Volgar Astrakhan form and stats
The story so far in the FNL for Volgar Astrakhan at their home stadium (Central'nyj Stadion Astrakhan'gazprom) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.
It's back home for Astrakhan, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Dinamo Bryansk away with the result 1-0. A. Bolonin found the net in that victory. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Irtysh.
This is expected to be a close game, with Volgar Astrakhan perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Volgar Astrakhan as a small favourite), we find four games. Volgar Astrakhan has won two of these, drawn zero and lost two.
Astrakhan are traveling soon after this match as the FNL match at Spartak Vladikavkaz awaits in four days.
Volgar Astrakhan has scored 7 league goals at home this season, in 5 matches. From these home matches, Volgar Astrakhan have conceded only 4 goals.
Neftekhimik form and stats
2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. That’s the product of Neftekhimik, who have the fewest conceded goals (4) in FNL, playing as the away team in the FNL this season.
There were no winners in Neftekhimik's previous match, a FNL home game that ended 1-1 vs Krylya Sovetov (placed 5th). That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Tekstilshchik.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Neftekhimik in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Neftekhimik, zero draws and one defeat.
Neftekhimik have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 4 goals have been scored. Neftekhimik are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  A. Bolonin 3 goals | D. Vorobyev 3 goals | A. Pogosov 2 goals |
Volgar Astrakhan missing players
Neftekhimik missing players
| Volgar Astrakhan | Neftekhimik | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 13 |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 82% |
| 67% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 45% |
| 42% | 40% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 64% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 36% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.3 | 3.5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 104 | 43 | 7 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 15 | 117 |
| 32 | 15 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 2 | 32 |
| 41% | 47% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 41% |
- Neftekhimik has the fewest conceded goals (1) away in FNL
- Neftekhimik has the fewest conceded goals (4) in FNL
- Neftekhimik have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Volgar Astrakhan have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Neftekhimik have scored away.
- Volgar Astrakhan have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Volgar Astrakhan haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Orenburg | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 28 |
| 2 | Spartak Moskva II | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 25 |
| 3 | Olimpiyets | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 25 |
| 4 | Veles | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 24 |
| 5 | Krylya Sovetov | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 23 |
| 6 | Spartak Vladikavkaz | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 23 |
| 7 | Neftekhimik | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 22 |
| 8 | Torpedo Moskva | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 19 |
| 9 | Baltika | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 19 |
| 10 | Krasnodar II | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 11 | Chayka | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | -3 | 18 |
| 12 | SKA Khabarovsk | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -2 | 16 |
| 13 | Tekstilshchik | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 16 |
| 14 | Dinamo Bryansk | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | -13 | 15 |
| 15 | Volgar Astrakhan | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 14 |
| 16 | Yenisey | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 14 |
| 17 | Fakel | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 11 |
| 18 | Akron | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -6 | 11 |
| 19 | Shinnik | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | -7 | 9 |
| 20 | Chertanovo | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -11 | 8 |
| 21 | Irtysh | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -17 | 5 |
| 22 | Tom' Tomsk | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -13 | 3 |