Olimpiyets vs Fakel betting preview: Visitors should struggle at Stadion Nizhny Novgorod

Competition: Russia FNL
Date: Sat 30.March
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Nizhny Novgorod (44899 seats)

A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The home fans are optimistic that the difference between 6th and 15th place in the table will show on the pitch.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all. Fakel has a very far travel for this match, with a distance of 914 kilometers (in air distance) between the venues.

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Olimpiyets form and stats

Olimpiyets have played 13 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 7-3-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Happy days for Olimpiyets in their previous game, a FNL match away at Spartak Moskva II (placed 12th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. Before that game, the home loss against Shinnik with the scoreline 0-1.

Olimpiyets are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 13 goals in 13 matches. From these home matches, Olimpiyets have conceded only 8 goals.

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Fakel form and stats

The hunting on away grounds hasn’t been very fruitful for Fakel so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-9 (win-draw-lose).

Fakel's last game was the home draw against Baltika (1-1). Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Zenit II's place.

The visitors have scored 12 goals from 14 away games, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Fakel have seen the ball go into their own net 20 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Fakel - Olimpiyets 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: 1 win for Olimpiyets, 0 draws and 2 wins for Fakel.

Top Goalscorers

I. Lebedenko
12 goals
M. Palienko
6 goals
P. Ignatovich
5 goals

Olimpiyets missing players

Fakel missing players

Olimpiyets Fakel
Total Home Statistic Away Total
28 13 Played 14 28
86% 85% Over 0.5 100% 89%
46% 38% Over 1.5 79% 71%
36% 31% Over 2.5 36% 39%
11% 8% Over 3.5 7% 11%
0% 0% Over 4.5 7% 7%
43% 38% Both teams to score 50% 46%
36% 38% Clean Sheet 14% 32%
36% 38% Failed To Score 36% 32%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Tambov 28 17 6 5 46 25 13 7 4 2 25 12 15 10 2 3 21 13 21 57
2 Tom' Tomsk 28 14 9 5 32 16 15 11 3 1 24 5 13 3 6 4 8 11 16 51
3 Sochi 28 13 9 6 48 28 15 8 3 4 24 15 13 5 6 2 24 13 20 48
4 Avangard Kursk 27 13 5 9 36 28 14 9 3 2 22 12 13 4 2 7 14 16 8 44
5 Shinnik 28 12 8 8 30 23 15 6 7 2 15 9 13 6 1 6 15 14 7 44
6 Olimpiyets 28 12 7 9 27 23 13 7 3 3 13 8 15 5 4 6 14 15 4 43
7 Chertanovo 28 12 6 10 49 41 15 7 4 4 28 19 13 5 2 6 21 22 8 42
8 Krasnodar II 27 10 10 7 35 34 14 5 4 5 17 19 13 5 6 2 18 15 1 40
9 SKA Khabarovsk 28 9 12 7 34 33 13 5 5 3 18 15 15 4 7 4 16 18 1 39
10 Mordovia Saransk 28 10 8 10 31 30 14 3 4 7 14 19 14 7 4 3 17 11 1 38
11 Luch Vladivostok 28 8 13 7 22 19 14 6 3 5 11 9 14 2 10 2 11 10 3 37
12 Spartak Moskva II 28 10 7 11 33 34 15 5 5 5 18 18 13 5 2 6 15 16 -1 37
13 Rotor Volgograd 28 8 12 8 24 27 14 6 5 3 14 11 14 2 7 5 10 16 -3 36
14 Khimki 28 9 9 10 34 41 14 5 6 3 21 17 14 4 3 7 13 24 -7 36
15 Fakel 28 8 8 12 30 31 14 5 6 3 18 11 14 3 2 9 12 20 -1 32
16 Baltika 28 8 8 12 31 42 13 6 2 5 15 16 15 2 6 7 16 26 -11 32
17 Armavir 28 6 10 12 25 39 13 2 7 4 15 19 15 4 3 8 10 20 -14 28
18 Tyumen 28 5 12 11 23 33 14 5 6 3 17 14 14 0 6 8 6 19 -10 27
19 Sibir 28 5 9 14 21 38 13 4 4 5 10 11 15 1 5 9 11 27 -17 24
20 Zenit II 28 3 6 19 16 42 14 2 3 9 9 20 14 1 3 10 7 22 -26 15

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