This promises to be an action-packed encounter for Sheriff at Bolshaya Sportivnaya Arena when the Champions League tournament arrives in town and Real Madrid with it. Read all about the Group Stage match here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago. It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the La Liga. That game was also an away game, at Granada. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Real Madrid, who are travelling more than 3700 kilometers to play this game.
Sheriff form and stats
Last season, Sheriff's Champions League journey ended in the 2nd qualifying round.6-0-1 is the performance here at Bolshaya Sportivnaya Arena so far in the National Division, giving Sheriff a total of 18 from their 7 games here. Outstanding results! 8W-2D-2L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Champions League for Sheriff. Sheriff haven’t lost a league-game in 13 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus CSF Balti, 146 days ago.
Happy days for Sheriff in their previous game, a National Division match away at Floresti that ended with a 3-1 victory.
Previous to that game, a National Division home match hosting Zimbru in a game that was won 6-0.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Sheriff had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Sheriff lost one similar game by at least two goals.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Dinamo-Auto are coming to town in four days.
It's goals goals goals for Sheriff who have scored 25 goals from 7 league home games. As for guarding their own goal, Sheriff have only let in 2 goals at home.
Real Madrid form and stats
Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the semi-finals against Chelsea.Real Madrid have an excellent away record in the La Liga so far with 6-1-1 from 8 games. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 3W-0D-1L. This is both home and away. It’s been three wins in a row for Madrid on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Real Madrid play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-1 victory visiting Granada. Casemiro got a match rating of 8.31 in that game, top player of the team. Casemiro served one assist, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 81 successful passes (of 87 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Rayo Vallecano in the La Liga.As mentioned earlier, Real Madrid will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in two wins (two by two or more goals winning margin), one draw and one surprising defeat.
A quick return to home after this game, as Real Madrid are hosting Sevilla in the La Liga only four days away.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Madrid are regular goalscorers on their travels. As opposed to that, Real Madrid have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Sheriff and Real Madrid have met previously this season: Real Madrid - Sheriff 1-2.Top Goalscorers
  K. Benzema 10 goals |  V. Júnior 8 goals |   A. Traoré 5 goals |
Sheriff missing players
Real Madrid missing players
| Sheriff | Real Madrid | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 20 | 12 | Won | W | 10 | 16 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 66 | 42 | Scored | S | 31 | 53 | ||
| 13 | 5 | Conceded | C | 15 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 71% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 54% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 23% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 23% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 64% | ||
| 64% | 77% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 32% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 16% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 6 | ||
| 5.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 3.1 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 12.9 | 13.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.2 | 16 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 5.9 | ||
| 45% | 54% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 36% | ||
| 10.5 | 7.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.1 | 10.2 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 3.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 2 | Inter | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | Sheriff | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 4 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -8 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Petrocub | 17 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 21 | 38 |
| 2 | Sheriff | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 39 | 37 |
| 3 | Milsami | 17 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 33 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 16 | 37 |
| 4 | Sfintul Gheorghe | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 18 | -1 | 24 |
| 5 | Dinamo-Auto | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 25 | 46 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 24 | -21 | 23 |
| 6 | CSF Balti | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | -6 | 20 |
| 7 | Zimbru | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -4 | 15 |
| 8 | Floresti | 18 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 56 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 25 | -44 | -6 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Real Madrid | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 30 |
| 2 | Real Sociedad | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 3 | Sevilla | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 28 |
| 4 | Atlético Madrid | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Real Betis | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 24 |
| 6 | Barcelona | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 7 | Rayo Vallecano | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 20 |
| 8 | Athletic Club | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 |
| 9 | Osasuna | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -4 | 19 |
| 10 | Valencia | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 18 |
| 11 | Espanyol | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 12 | Villarreal | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 13 | Mallorca | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 15 |
| 14 | Deportivo Alaves | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -7 | 14 |
| 15 | Celta de Vigo | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -4 | 13 |
| 16 | Cadiz | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -11 | 12 |
| 17 | Granada | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 11 |
| 18 | Elche | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 11 |
| 19 | Getafe | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -9 | 9 |
| 20 | Levante | 14 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 14 | -13 | 7 |