Evenly matched teams: Chernomorets vs Urozhay match preview

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Competition: Russia Pfl
Competition: Sun 18.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Central'nyj (12500 seats)

Chernomorets will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Urozhay.

Chernomorets and Urozhay should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Chernomorets form and stats

3-0-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Pfl numbers at home for Chernomorets, who have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Pfl, so far this season.

A strong away win for Chernomorets against Makhachkala the last match, as R. Akhmedkhanov (2), R. Mashezov and I. Timoshenko were on target. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Dinamo Stavropol'.

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

Chernomorets have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. Defensively Chernomorets have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (2 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Urozhay form and stats

The visitors, who have the most scored goals (28) in Pfl, are W4-D0-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Pfl. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Urozhay, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Urozhay are travelling after their nice 6-1 home win in the Pfl against Biolog (placed 15th). Ahead of that match was the victory versus Essentuki at their stadium, the result 5-1.

As mentioned above, Urozhay was the only team on the pitch versus Biolog in their previous game, winning 6-1. This could be a tougher task.

The prediction for this game is lots of goals as Urozhay alone have scored more than three on average in their league games away (16 from 5 played). Urozhay have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Chernomorets two wins, zero draws and Urozhay two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Chernomorets missing players

Urozhay missing players

Chernomorets Urozhay
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 1 5 10
5 3 0 Won W 1 4 7
2 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 3
11 3 0 Scored S 2 16 28
7 2 0 Conceded C 0 5 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
44% 25% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 90%
22% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 60% 50%
22% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 60% 50%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 60% 50%
33% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 60% 50%
44% 75% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 30%
22% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 20%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 2.5 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 1.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
117 80 0 Total Shots T S 25 60 129
42 25 0 Shots on Target S O 10 28 60
24% 12% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 36% 30%
Key stats in Pfl this season:
  • Chernomorets has the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Pfl
  • Chernomorets haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Urozhay has the most points from losing position (9) in Pfl
  • Urozhay has the most scored goals (16) away in Pfl
  • Urozhay has the most scored goals (28) in Pfl
  • Urozhay has the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Pfl
  • Urozhay have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Urozhay have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Urozhay have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Urozhay have scored more than double the goals of Chernomorets.
  • Urozhay haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kuban Kholding 10 8 1 1 24 7 5 3 1 1 9 3 5 5 0 0 15 4 17 25
2 Legion Dynamo 10 6 4 0 20 5 5 4 1 0 13 3 5 2 3 0 7 2 15 22
3 Urozhay 10 7 0 3 28 11 5 3 0 2 12 6 5 4 0 1 16 5 17 21
4 Anzhi 10 5 4 1 18 12 5 3 2 0 9 4 5 2 2 1 9 8 6 19
5 SKA Rostov 10 6 1 3 18 13 4 3 0 1 7 5 6 3 1 2 11 8 5 19
6 Mashuk-KMV 9 5 2 2 18 13 5 4 1 0 14 4 4 1 1 2 4 9 5 17
7 Chernomorets 9 5 2 2 11 7 4 3 0 1 3 2 5 2 2 1 8 5 4 17
8 Dinamo Stavropol' 11 5 1 5 17 15 5 3 1 1 11 4 6 2 0 4 6 11 2 16
9 Forte Taganrog 10 4 2 4 20 12 5 2 1 2 13 6 5 2 1 2 7 6 8 14
10 Spartak Nal'chik 9 3 2 4 11 13 4 1 2 1 3 3 5 2 0 3 8 10 -2 11
11 Makhachkala 10 3 2 5 12 19 5 2 1 2 8 9 5 1 1 3 4 10 -7 11
12 Druzhba 9 3 2 4 11 18 5 1 2 2 7 11 4 2 0 2 4 7 -7 11
13 Krasnodar 3 10 2 2 6 10 19 5 2 0 3 6 9 5 0 2 3 4 10 -9 8
14 Inter Cherkessk 10 2 2 6 13 25 5 2 1 2 8 9 5 0 1 4 5 16 -12 8
15 Biolog 10 2 1 7 12 21 5 1 1 3 8 8 5 1 0 4 4 13 -9 7
16 Essentuki 9 1 1 7 7 19 4 1 0 3 6 10 5 0 1 4 1 9 -12 4
17 Tuapse 8 0 1 7 7 28 6 0 1 5 5 19 2 0 0 2 2 9 -21 1

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The Professional Football League (PFL) is the third level of Russian football. It is divided into five divisions (or zones) based on the team’s location. The divisions have a varying number of teams, in total about 60. The top team of each league table is promoted while the bottom team is relegated.