Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Taraz & Tobol face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Kazakhstan Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Tobol have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 8-4-6 (win-draw-loss) from 18 matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
The visiting Tobol played their last game only three days ago, a Champions League match.
Taraz form and stats
Last season their Kazakhstan Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals against Shakhter Karagandy.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Ortalıq Stadion as Taraz have scored 9 goals to get 13 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the Premier League are 4-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
The home team returns to Ortalıq Stadion after drawing with Atyrau on their last time out; the game ended 0-0.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a Premier League home game that ended 1-1 versus Kairat.A decent goal production from Taraz in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Taraz are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ortalıq Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.
Tobol form and stats
Tobol was sent out of Kazakhstan Cup in the semi-finals last season, when Shakhter Karagandy turned out to be too strong.Tobol have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-2-4 (7 played).
Tobol delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Ferencvaros in their previous match; a Champions League duel.
Preceding that game, the 2-2 draw paying a visit to Arys.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Tobol manager Milanović as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Ferencvaros.
Tobol have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 7 away games in the league.
Head 2 Head
Statistics for the prior ten meetings between these two sides are: zero wins for Taraz, three draws and seven wins for Tobol. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  I. Sergeev 6 goals |  A. Zhumabek 5 goals |  A. Tagybergen 5 goals |
Taraz missing players
Tobol missing players
| Taraz | Tobol | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 26 | 14 | Scored | S | 16 | 40 | ||
| 27 | 10 | Conceded | C | 19 | 28 | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 56% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 42% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 16% | ||
| 3.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.3 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.2 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 9.3 | 12.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.1 | 8.6 | ||
| 3.5 | 4.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 3.8 | ||
| 30% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 48% | 44% | ||
| 9.5 | 10.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.8 | 6.9 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 2.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Astana | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 27 |
| 2 | Ordabasy | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 26 |
| 3 | Aktobe | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 26 |
| 4 | Tobol | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 25 |
| 5 | Taraz | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 23 |
| 6 | Kairat | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 23 |
| 7 | Kaspiy | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 14 | -3 | 22 |
| 8 | Atyrau | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | Shakhter Karagandy | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 17 |
| 10 | Aksu | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 14 | -7 | 17 |
| 11 | Arys | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -1 | 16 |
| 12 | Kyzyl-Zhar | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 15 |
| 13 | Akzhayik | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -9 | 12 |
| 14 | Maqtaaral | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 19 | -16 | 10 |
