Sibir vs Chertanovo betting preview: Even match expected

Competition: Russia FNL
Date: Sat 30.March
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Spartak (12567 seats)

Season ticket holders at Stadion Spartak haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Sibir languishing in the 19th position so far. The guesting Chertanovo will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch. Chertanovo normally plays on grass. On their travels to artificial turf, they have 2 wins, 1 draws and 1 loss. They have scored 4 and conceded 3 on these four matches played. Chertanovo has a very far travel for this match, with a distance of 2815 kilometers (in air distance) between the venues.

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Sibir form and stats

4-4-5 (win-draw-lost) are the numbers at home for Sibir so far this season.

The fans are hoping that Sibir will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the FNL game against Rotor Volgograd (placed 13th). Preceding that match was a defeat to Tambov (0-2).

This is expected to be a close game, with Sibir perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Sibir as a small favourite), we find two games. Sibir has won 1 of these, drawn 0 and lost 1.

Sibir aren't scoring a lot here at Stadion Spartak with only 10 goals from 13 games. From these home matches, Sibir have conceded only 11 goals.

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Chertanovo form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their travels is 5 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats.

The manager I. Osinkin was unhappy after their last game, a FNL match played at their home ground Stadion Spartak. Chertanovo suffered a 0-1 loss to Tambov (placed 1st). Before that, Chertanovo travelled to Tyumen and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 20 similar matches played by Chertanovo in our archives, and the results are: 9 wins for Chertanovo, 4 draws and 7 defeats.

Chertanovo are not goal shy away from home, finding the net 21 times in 13 away games so far. In the opposite end, Chertanovo have conceded 22 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Chertanovo - Sibir 2-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last one match): Sibir 0 wins, 0 draws and Chertanovo 1 victory.

Top Goalscorers

V. Sarveli
8 goals
R. Ezhov
6 goals
P. Kireenko
5 goals

Sibir missing players

Chertanovo missing players

Sibir Chertanovo
Total Home Statistic Away Total
28 13 Played 13 28
89% 85% Over 0.5 100% 100%
71% 62% Over 1.5 100% 93%
32% 15% Over 2.5 77% 68%
11% 0% Over 3.5 46% 43%
7% 0% Over 4.5 8% 7%
46% 31% Both teams to score 85% 71%
25% 38% Clean Sheet 8% 14%
39% 46% Failed To Score 8% 14%

  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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