Season ticket holders haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Essentuki languishing in the 14th position so far. The guesting Forte Taganrog will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Pfl.
Essentuki form and stats
1-1-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Pfl numbers at home for Essentuki so far this season.
In the match before that, Essentuki hosted Tuapse and drew the game 4-4.
There will be little rest for Essentuki after this match as they are travelling to Legion Dynamo for a Pfl game in only four days.
The Essentuki manager V. Kamoltsev has got the team scoring with 10 from 5 home games in the league. As for conceded goals, Essentuki's unpleasant statistic is 14 goals surrendered.
Forte Taganrog form and stats
2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Forte Taganrog in their Pfl matches away.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 1-0 against Kuban Kholding in their previous game. Preceding that game was the away victory against Krasnodar 3 with the score of 3-1.
Forte Taganrog are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). 6 goals have been conceded by Taganrog in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  P. Solomatin 9 goals |  I. Zakharov 3 goals | D. Ostrovski 2 goals |
Essentuki missing players
Forte Taganrog missing players
| Essentuki | Forte Taganrog | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 14 | 10 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 21 |
| 23 | 14 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 82% |
| 55% | 80% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | 64% |
| 27% | 60% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 36% |
| 27% | 60% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 45% | 80% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 80% | 55% |
| 18% | 20% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 36% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 18% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.7 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 53 | 34 | 20 | Total Shots | T S | 5 | 26 | 105 |
| 22 | 18 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 9 | 47 |
| 45% | 50% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 67% | 43% |
- All of Essentuki's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Essentuki has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Pfl
- Essentuki has the fewest scored goals in the second half (6) in Pfl
- Essentuki have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Essentuki have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Essentuki haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Forte Taganrog has the most scored goals in the first half (14) in Pfl
- Forte Taganrog have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Forte Taganrog 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 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 17 | 28 |
| 2 | Legion Dynamo | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 26 |
| 3 | Urozhay | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 18 | 25 |
| 4 | Chernomorets | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 20 |
| 5 | SKA Rostov | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Anzhi | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 19 |
| 7 | Forte Taganrog | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 8 | Mashuk-KMV | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 17 |
| 9 | Dinamo Stavropol' | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 16 |
| 10 | Spartak Nal'chik | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | Krasnodar 3 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 12 | Makhachkala | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -7 | 14 |
| 13 | Druzhba | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -14 | 11 |
| 14 | Essentuki | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -9 | 8 |
| 15 | Inter Cherkessk | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 30 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 16 | -17 | 8 |
| 16 | Biolog | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -10 | 7 |
| 17 | Tuapse | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 39 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 18 | -22 | 5 |