Astana get ready to welcome Kairat for something different than the ordinary league football: The Kazakhstan Cup Semi-finals leg 1 of 2.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Europa Conference League.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Kairat have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 6-2-2 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
It's quite the trip for Kairat when visiting Astana as the cities are 1500 kilometers apart.
Astana form and stats
Astana have performed here at Astana Arena this season with 9 wins from 13 Premier League matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 1. 4W-3D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Kazakhstan Cup for Astana.
Astana drew their last game, also a home match. Arys was the opponent, 1-1 the score.
Heartbreak before that as Astana lost 0-1 at Kairat's place.Goals decide football matches and Astana are scoring many of them at home; 27 on target from 13 league matches. Astana are not conceding a lot of goals here at Astana Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 12 from 13 matches.
Kairat form and stats
Kairat's mission in Kazakhstan Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals.Playing away, Kairat have won 4 games, drawn 6 and suffered 3 defeats in the Premier League this season. When we have look at the Kazakhstan Cup statistics, we find 5W-0D-3L. This is both home and away.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Kairat goalkeeper Stas Pokatilov is eager to challenge this, with his 197 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Kairat failed to get anything from their last game, a Europa Conference League home match vs Qarabağ that ended with defeat 1-2.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Zhetysu.Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Kairat have scored 17 goals in 13 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Kairat as they have only conceded 11 goals from these away games. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Astana-Kairat H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Astana four wins, Kairat four wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  M. Tomasov 17 goals |   A. Shushenachev 12 goals | J. Kanté Martínez 9 goals |
Astana missing players
Kairat missing players
| Astana | Kairat | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 9 | ||
| 40 | 26 | Scored | S | 22 | 41 | ||
| 31 | 17 | Conceded | C | 25 | 33 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 92% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 60% | ||
| 28% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 24% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 24% | ||
| 4.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| 5.4 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.7 | 4.2 | ||
| 2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 5 | ||
| 9.7 | 13.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 10.5 | ||
| 4.1 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 40% | 37% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 36% | ||
| 8.3 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.1 | 8.1 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3.3 | ||
| 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 | 26 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 54 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 36 | 61 |
| 2 | Astana | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 53 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 13 | 28 | 57 |
| 3 | Kairat | 26 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 52 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 31 | 51 |
| 4 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 39 |
| 5 | Ordabasy | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 38 |
| 6 | Kaspiy | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 35 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 0 | 32 |
| 7 | Akzhayik | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 31 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 18 | -6 | 32 |
| 8 | Aktobe | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 40 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 18 | -5 | 30 |
| 9 | Shakhter Karagandy | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 25 | 34 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 20 | -9 | 30 |
| 10 | Taraz | 26 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -7 | 29 |
| 11 | Atyrau | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 25 | 40 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 27 | -15 | 28 |
| 12 | Arys | 26 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 22 | 40 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 18 | -18 | 26 |
| 13 | Kaisar | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 44 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 20 | -20 | 19 |
| 14 | Zhetysu | 26 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 47 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 25 | -24 | 16 |