Home advantage could prove decisive in Akhmat Grozny - Khimki battle

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 12.December
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Akhmat Arena (30597 seats)

Get ready for Premier League and Akhmat Grozny - Khimki. In this preview and prediction you'll find numbers, previous results, data, tendencies and news!

Insights:
  • Akhmat Grozny have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premier League
  • Khimki is in the worst form (0-3-3)

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.

Khimki have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Akhmat Grozny form and stats

The overall Premier League stats playing at home this season for Akhmat Grozny are 5-0-3 (wins-draws-losses). There’s a good atmosphere here at Akhmat Arena after three straight home wins.

Akhmat are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Spartak Moskva. Midfielder Artem Polyarus was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.01 (out of ten) in that game. Polyarus hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Rostov in a game that was won 2-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Akhmat's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won five matches, drawn zero and lost zero.

Akhmat has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Akhmat Grozny have conceded 8 in these home matches.

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Khimki form and stats

Khimki have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-2-5 (8 played).

Khimki's previous game was their home loss versus Arsenal Tula (1-2). Khimki goalie Ilya Lantratov took pride in a first-rate shift vs Arsenal Tula, but even with registering eight saves the defeat could not be stopped. Ilya Lantratov was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.03. The agile goalkeeper Lantratov stopped the opponent with eight saves.

A draw for Khimki before that, at their own venue hosting Krasnodar (3-3).

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Khimki playing away, we found one game. Results were one away win, zero draws and zero home wins.

The attacking power of Khimki when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 8 league matches away. For Khimki, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The squads have played each other before in this season, with the final score Khimki - Akhmat 2-0 written in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Akhmat seven wins, zero draws and Khimki three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KhimkiD. Glushakov
D. Glushakov
7 goals
Akhmat GroznyD. Utkin
D. Utkin
6 goals
AkhmatM. Konaté
M. Konaté
4 goals

Akhmat Grozny missing players

Khimki missing players

Akhmat Grozny Khimki
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 8 4 Played P 2 8 17
8 5 4 Won W 0 1 2
0 0 0 Drew D 0 2 8
9 3 0 Lost L 2 5 7
20 11 8 Scored S 1 5 15
23 8 2 Conceded C 6 16 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 76%
82% 75% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 62% 71%
59% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 47%
12% 12% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 18%
59% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 53%
12% 25% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 38% 35%
29% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 35%
 
4.6 4.6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.1 5
4.1 3.1 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4 4.8
2.8 2.1 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.9 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
15.2 16.4 21 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 11.2 12.2
4.6 4.8 7.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.9 3.9
26% 29% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 16% 22%
 
11.3 11.2 8 Shots against (avg) S A 14 13 13.4
3.2 3 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.4 5.8
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Akhmat Grozny have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Khimki have scored away.
  • Akhmat Grozny have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premier League
  • Akhmat Grozny haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Khimki have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Khimki have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Khimki have the fewest points (5) away in Premier League
  • Khimki have the most dropped points from leading position (13) in Premier League
  • Khimki have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Khimki is in the worst form (0-3-3)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zenit 17 11 4 2 43 19 9 7 1 1 28 11 8 4 3 1 15 8 24 37
2 Dinamo Moskva 17 11 2 4 32 19 9 6 1 2 18 7 8 5 1 2 14 12 13 35
3 Krasnodar 17 8 4 5 29 18 7 4 1 2 11 6 10 4 3 3 18 12 11 28
4 Sochi 17 9 1 7 27 21 8 5 0 3 17 9 9 4 1 4 10 12 6 28
5 CSKA Moskva 17 8 3 6 19 16 8 4 2 2 8 5 9 4 1 4 11 11 3 27
6 Lokomotiv Moskva 17 6 7 4 22 19 8 4 1 3 12 9 9 2 6 1 10 10 3 25
7 Krylya Sovetov 17 7 3 7 20 18 8 4 1 3 12 7 9 3 2 4 8 11 2 24
8 Akhmat Grozny 17 8 0 9 20 23 8 5 0 3 11 8 9 3 0 6 9 15 -3 24
9 Spartak Moskva 17 6 5 6 20 23 9 4 3 2 14 10 8 2 2 4 6 13 -3 23
10 Rubin Kazan 17 6 4 7 23 25 9 4 2 3 14 11 8 2 2 4 9 14 -2 22
11 Arsenal Tula 17 5 4 8 21 33 9 3 4 2 11 11 8 2 0 6 10 22 -12 19
12 Rostov 17 4 6 7 29 31 8 2 2 4 16 15 9 2 4 3 13 16 -2 18
13 FK Nizjni Novgorod 17 5 3 9 18 30 9 2 1 6 9 16 8 3 2 3 9 14 -12 18
14 Ufa 17 3 7 7 17 24 9 2 4 3 11 12 8 1 3 4 6 12 -7 16
15 Ural 17 3 7 7 8 17 9 1 5 3 5 8 8 2 2 4 3 9 -9 16
16 Khimki 17 2 8 7 15 27 9 1 6 2 10 11 8 1 2 5 5 16 -12 14

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The Premier League, or the Russian Football Championship, is the top level football league in Russia. It has 16 teams who play each other home and away for a total of 30 matches each. After this the top team in the league table is the champion, the bottom two relegated directly while two teams play a relegation playoff.