Football betting preview: Volgar Astrakhan favourites when SKA Rostov visits

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Competition: Russia Pfl
Date: Thu 01.August
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Central'nyj Stadion Astrakhan'gazprom (17712 seats)

New season, new opportunities: Here's what you need to know before the Volgar Astrakhan - SKA Rostov match!

It's no vacation for neither Volgar Astrakhan nor SKA Rostov as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Volgar Astrakhan form and stats

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Volgar Astrakhan home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 1 match were won by at least two goals.

Last season, Volgar Astrakhan's league statistics were 16 wins, 3 draws and 5 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the Pfl. Over these 24 matches they scored 43 goals and conceded 19. Playing at home last season Volgar Astrakhan managed 9-2-1 (win-draw-lost) with 22 goals and 6 conceded.

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SKA Rostov form and stats

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where SKA Rostov 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.

Just as the home team, SKA Rostov have been through a few friendly games in the intense training period that just finished. The results from these training matches are 0 SKA Rostov wins, 0 draws and 1 loss.

Let's have a look at how SKA Rostov performed last season in the Pfl: They landed a 13th position in the league table after playing out 4 victories, 7 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 17 and conceded 31 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 3 and lost 7 with 8/15 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Volgar Astrakhan - SKA Rostov 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Volgar Astrakhan 4 wins, 3 draws and SKA Rostov 1 victory. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 7 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

A. Zenin
2 goals
Y. Pugachev
2 goals
Y. Zhuravlev
1 goals

Volgar Astrakhan missing players

SKA Rostov missing players

Volgar Astrakhan SKA Rostov
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs low Away Total
3 2 1 Played 0 2 3
2 2 1 Won 0 1 1
1 0 0 Drew 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost 0 1 2
4 3 2 Scored 0 1 2
1 0 0 Conceded 0 1 3
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 50% 100% Over 1.5 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 33%
67% 100% 100% Clean Sheets 0% 50% 33%
0% 0% 0% Failed To Score 0% 50% 33%
 
1.7 2.5 2 Corners For (avg) 0 3 3.7
0.3 0.5 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 2 1.7
0.7 1 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 4.5 4
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 1
Volgar Astrakhan Last season SKA Rostov
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
28 14   Played   14 28
18 10   Won   3 5
5 3   Drew   4 9
5 1   Lost   7 14
48 26   Scored   10 19
22 9   Conceded   16 33
96% 100%   Over 0.5   86% 82%
75% 86%   Over 1.5   57% 54%
54% 57%   Over 2.5   36% 36%
11% 7%   Over 3.5   7% 14%
7% 0%   Over 4.5   0% 0%
46% 50%   BTTS   50% 36%
43% 43%   Clean Sheets   29% 29%
14% 7%   Failed To Score   36% 54%
 
4.4 4.9   Corners For (avg)   1.8 3.8
4.5 5.2   Corners Against (avg)   4.9 4.5
2 1.8   Yellow Cards (avg)   2.9 3
0 0   Red Cards   1 1
Key stats last season:
  • SKA Rostov have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • SKA Rostov have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Volgar Astrakhan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Volgar Astrakhan have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Volgar Astrakhan have scored more than double the goals of SKA Rostov.
  • Volgar Astrakhan haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Volgar Astrakhan
All FNL Pfl Russian Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
31-05-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan 1 - 1 Legion Dynamo
16-07-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan 2 - 0 Urozhay
24-07-19 PFL Biolog 1 - 1 Volgar Astrakhan
28-07-19 RC Volgar Astrakhan 3 - 0 Legion Dynamo
01-08-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan 1 - 0 SKA Rostov
04-08-19 RC Spartak Vladikavkaz 16:00 Volgar Astrakhan
09-08-19 PFL Legion Dynamo - Volgar Astrakhan
16-08-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan - Spartak Nal'chik
24-08-19 PFL Spartak Vladikavkaz - Volgar Astrakhan
01-09-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan - Chernomorets
SKA Rostov
All FNL Pfl Russian Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
30-06-19 CF SKA Rostov 0 - 1 Irtysh
16-07-19 PFL Chernomorets 0 - 1 SKA Rostov
20-07-19 RC Kuban Kholding 2 - 0 SKA Rostov
24-07-19 PFL SKA Rostov 1 - 2 Krasnodar 3
01-08-19 PFL Volgar Astrakhan 1 - 0 SKA Rostov
09-08-19 PFL SKA Rostov - Mashuk-KMV
16-08-19 PFL Makhachkala - SKA Rostov
24-08-19 PFL SKA Rostov - Dinamo Stavropol'
01-09-19 PFL Inter Cherkessk - SKA Rostov
08-09-19 PFL SKA Rostov - Spartak Vladikavkaz

Last season 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 Chayka 28 21 7 0 64 14 14 12 2 0 38 6 14 9 5 0 26 8 50 70
2 Urozhay 26 18 7 1 44 18 13 9 4 0 23 8 13 9 3 1 21 10 26 61
3 Volgar Astrakhan 24 16 3 5 43 19 12 9 2 1 22 6 12 7 1 4 21 13 24 51
4 Chernomorets 26 15 4 7 52 21 13 8 3 2 30 7 13 7 1 5 22 14 31 49
5 Spartak Nal'chik 24 9 9 6 32 23 13 5 4 4 20 12 11 4 5 2 12 11 9 36
6 Druzhba 24 12 0 12 26 33 12 7 0 5 16 15 12 5 0 7 10 18 -7 36
7 Legion Dynamo 25 9 8 8 24 19 12 5 4 3 11 6 13 4 4 5 13 13 5 35
8 Biolog 24 10 4 10 26 33 12 6 1 5 14 15 12 4 3 5 12 18 -7 34
9 Dinamo Stavropol' 24 10 3 11 32 39 11 6 1 4 15 14 13 4 2 7 17 25 -7 33
10 Krasnodar 3 27 7 7 13 36 46 14 5 5 4 26 18 13 2 2 9 10 28 -10 28
11 Spartak Vladikavkaz 25 7 6 12 30 35 13 4 2 7 15 18 12 3 4 5 15 17 -5 27
12 Mashuk-KMV 24 5 7 12 27 37 11 3 4 4 14 14 13 2 3 8 13 23 -10 22
13 SKA Rostov 24 4 7 13 17 31 12 2 4 6 9 16 12 2 3 7 8 15 -14 19
14 Angusht 25 2 8 15 11 43 13 1 4 8 6 26 12 1 4 7 5 17 -32 14
15 Akademiya Futbola 24 1 2 21 7 60 12 0 1 11 2 29 12 1 1 10 5 31 -53 5

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