Saburtalo vs Telavi: Full pre-match guide and statistics

Saburtalo are done competing for places this season; they will remain in 6th place whatever happens now. Telavi are staying put at 7th place whatever happens for the rest of the season.

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.

Saburtalo form and stats

The Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga results playing at home this season for Saburtalo are 8-4-6 (wins-draws-losses). We have seen two home losses in a row now for Saburtalo, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.

Saburtalo's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Telavi (placed 7th).

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Lokomotivi Tbilisi.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Saburtalo have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 6 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.

Saburtalo have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Saguramos sapekhburto kompleksi with 31 goals in 18 league matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Saburtalo's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 25 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Telavi form and stats

There's been little loot from Telavi's travels as they have only collected 18 points from 18 away games in the Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga. Telavi only have 4 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 6 draws.

Telavi play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Saburtalo (placed 6th). That victory felt sweet as this club had gone four league matches without victory.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Dila.

We have checked recent matches where Telavi have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 10 games were 2 victories, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

Few goals the story here? 10 of this club's latest 11 league matches have seen two or less goals.

The attacking power of Telavi when travelling is not overwhelming with 15 goals scored from 18 league matches away. 21 goals have been conceded by Telavi in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Funnily enough, Telavi faced Saburtalo the last time they were in a game with more than two goals in total. That was the Telavi - Saburtalo 0-3 game ten league rounds ago, and only "under 2.5" for the visitors since then! Tabatadze (Saburtalo) was sent off when these teams last played each other. Saburtalo-Telavi H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Saburtalo six wins, Telavi two wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). The matches between these teams have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 6 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

I. Sikharulidze 12 goals

I. Tabatadze 8 goals

S. Nonikashvili 5 goals

Saburtalo missing players

Telavi missing players