There's no exiting this stadium without a winner tonight as it's the second leg of the Europa Conference League 2nd Qualifying Round meeting between Tobol and Basel. Game on!
These teams have little in common geographically as Basel have to travel 4600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
The visiting Basel played their last game only four days ago, a Super League match.
Tobol form and stats
Tobol have reached this Europa Conference League stage through battling and winning against Honka. Last season, Tobol's Europa Conference League journey ended in the 3rd qualifying round against Zrinjski.Tobol are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Ortalıq Stadion. 6 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 9 games. This match is a Europa Conference League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses in this competition.
The Tobol goalkeeper Ivan Konovalov is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 189 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
Tobol are returning here after guesting Basel in a Europa Conference League fixture and winning with a 3-1 scoreline. The attacker Deblé was declared "man of the match" for Tobol with the rating of 8.11/10. Deblé scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Okzhetpes.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Tobol, as the Premier League home game vs Kaisar is only two days away.
A decent goal production from Tobol in their home games so far, with 14 goals from 9 league matches. Tobol have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Basel form and stats
Basel's mission in Europa Conference League last season failed in the quarter-finals.0 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Basel playing as the away team in the Super League this season.
Basel won their last game, 5-2 versus Winterthur played at home. A bonkers game with heaps of goals last time out for Basel, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that match, will this game be as much fun? Goalkeeper Salvi was absolutely vital in the Basel victory against Winterthur, making six saves. Midfield player Ndoye was the top player of the team with a match rating of 9.64/10. Ndoye scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and had 21 successful passes (of 24 total).
A painful defeat as big favourites in the game before that, the Europa Conference League fixture home hosting Tobol.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Super League trip to Grasshopper.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Basel has managed {1 goals} and let in 2 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Basel - Tobol 1-3 was the scoreline in these teams' latest H2H fixture, earlier this season. Tobol-Basel H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Tobol one win, Basel one win, one draw. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The games between these sides sometimes lean towards being ill-tempered, having seen 2 sending-offs from the last three encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Deblé 5 goals |  I. Chesnokov 3 goals |   F. Frei 3 goals |
Tobol missing players
Basel missing players
| Tobol | Basel | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 10 | ||
| 34 | 21 | Scored | S | 20 | 40 | ||
| 24 | 9 | Conceded | C | 23 | 48 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 83% | 68% | ||
| 24% | 23% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 44% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 83% | 80% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 4% | ||
| 20% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 5.6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.6 | 5.6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.8 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 7 | ||
| 7.8 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 10.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4 | ||
| 33% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 40% | ||
| 5.5 | 5.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14.8 | 14.3 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ordabasy | 17 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 36 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 42 |
| 2 | Astana | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 39 |
| 3 | Aktobe | 17 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 31 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 35 |
| 4 | Kairat | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 29 |
| 5 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 28 |
| 6 | Tobol | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 26 |
| 7 | Atyrau | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -2 | 23 |
| 8 | Zhetysu | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | -7 | 23 |
| 9 | Kaisar | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 10 | -3 | 20 |
| 10 | Shakhter Karagandy | 17 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | -4 | 18 |
| 11 | Maqtaaral | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 14 |
| 12 | Okzhetpes | 17 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 13 | Kaspiy | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -13 | 11 |
| 14 | Aksu | 17 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 18 | -15 | 11 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lugano | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Servette | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Zurich | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Young Boys | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Luzern | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Basel | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | St. Gallen | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Lausanne Sport | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 9 | Grasshopper | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 1 |
| 10 | Yverdon Sport | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Winterthur | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 1 |
| 12 | Stade Lausanne-Ouchy | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
