The manager V. Gazzaev looks to inspire Tobol win against Okzhetpes

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.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Okzhetpes have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 2-1-2 (win-draw-loss) from five matches.

Tobol form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here as Tobol have scored 15 goals to get 17 points from 7 games. The overall stats are 5-2-0 (wins-draws-losses). Tobol has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here. We remember; it was Ordabasy.

Tobol's previous game was a Premier League match also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Okzhetpes. The home side are looking to build on that result. Heartbreak before that as Tobol lost 1-3 at Kaisar's place.

Tobol are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found five matches and the win/draw/lost stats: W4-D0-L1.

The Tobol manager V. Gazzaev has got the team scoring with 15 from 7 home games. Tobol have showed great defending skills in their home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.

Okzhetpes form and stats

3 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Okzhetpes, who have the most conceded goals (17) away in Premier League, playing as the away team this season. Three has not been a lucky number for Okzhetpes as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Astana match. Okzhetpes has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Two away games in a row for Okzhetpes, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Tobol in the Premier League. A loss against Kairat was the result prior to that, in a home game.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Okzhetpes played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 2 times.

Okzhetpes has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 13 goals from 7 games. For Okzhetpes, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Tobol - Okzhetpes 2-0. Last ten meetings between the teams: Tobol won 6, Okzhetpes won 3 and 1 draw. 4 games with over 2,5 goals, 6 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

B. Turysbek 3 goals

A. Nurgaliev 2 goals

M. Fedin 2 goals

Tobol missing players

Okzhetpes missing players