It's time to decide the outcome of the Champions League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between Crvena Zvezda and Kairat. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!
It's no vacation for neither Crvena nor Kairat as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Kairat have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 5200 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Crvena Zvezda form and stats
Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the 3rd qualifying round.OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Crvena Zvezda's two home games in the Super Liga so far this season, having collected 4 points here at Stadion Rajko Mitić. Crvena has a nice streak going on as they have played 41 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Backa Topola defeat 409 days ago.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Crvena, as their goalkeeper Milan Borjan has completely shut out the opponents for 201 minutes in the Super Liga.
A nice win for Crvena last time playing, versus Mladost Lucani. That was also a home game and the match ended 1-0 with Mirko Ivanić scoring for the victors.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Kairat (1-2).Crvena are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found one match and the win/draw/lost stats: Won one, drew zero and lost zero.
The manager D. Stankovic will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Spartak Subotica in only two days.
Early season league goal statistics from Crvena Zvezda's 2 home games: 1 goal, 0 conceded.
Kairat form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Maccabi Haifa in order to reach 2nd qualifying round of Champions League. They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the 2nd qualifying round.3-4-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kairat in their Premier League matches away. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Champions League stats, they have 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses both home and away.
Kairat failed to get anything from their last game, a Kazakhstan Cup home match vs Arys that ended with defeat 0-1.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Crvena Zvezda in the Champions League.Kairat has another fixture away, a Kazakhstan Cup game, against Arys in just two days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
The visiting Kairat have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games. It's not easy to score on Kairat as they have only conceded 7 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Kairat - Crvena 2-1 entered in the official records. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: zero wins for Crvena, zero draws and three wins for Kairat. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.Top Goalscorers
  A. Shushenachev 9 goals | J. Kanté Martínez 8 goals |  V. Silva de Souza 7 goals |
Crvena Zvezda missing players
Kairat missing players
| Crvena Zvezda | Kairat | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 16 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 20 | 14 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | ||
| 70 | 40 | Scored | S | 15 | 49 | ||
| 16 | 6 | Conceded | C | 8 | 21 | ||
| 92% | 88% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 80% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 80% | ||
| 72% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 44% | ||
| 48% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 28% | ||
| 32% | 19% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 48% | ||
| 44% | 62% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 12% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 16% | ||
| 7.2 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.6 | 2.4 | ||
| 1.5 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 16.8 | 18.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 11.6 | ||
| 6.6 | 6.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5 | ||
| 42% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 40% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Radnički Kragujevac | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Radnicki Nis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Crvena Zvezda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Partizan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | Backa Topola | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Napredak | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Cukaricki | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Vozdovac | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Metalac GM | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Radnik Surdulica | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Vojvodina | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Spartak Subotica | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 13 | Mladost Lucani | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
| 14 | Novi Pazar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Kolubara | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Proleter Novi Sad | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tobol | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 25 | 42 |
| 2 | Astana | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 20 | 41 |
| 3 | Kairat | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 43 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 27 | 37 |
| 4 | Akzhayik | 19 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 11 | -1 | 28 |
| 5 | Ordabasy | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 27 |
| 6 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 20 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 26 |
| 7 | Atyrau | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 28 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -10 | 25 |
| 8 | Kaspiy | 19 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 16 | -2 | 24 |
| 9 | Taraz | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -3 | 23 |
| 10 | Aktobe | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 26 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 15 | -4 | 20 |
| 11 | Arys | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 14 | -18 | 18 |
| 12 | Shakhter Karagandy | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -12 | 16 |
| 13 | Kaisar | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 33 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | -13 | 15 |
| 14 | Zhetysu | 19 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 20 | -18 | 11 |