Delightful dogfight as daring Akhmat Grozny duel with determined Rubin Kazan'

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Mon 07.March
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Akhmat Arena (30597 seats)

The team playing at home, Akhmat Grozny, should be the favourites in this game, but Rubin Kazan' have exhibited both flair and spirit. Read more about the fixture!

Insights:
  • Akhmat Grozny haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Rubin Kazan''s away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

Rubin Kazan' 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.

Rubin Kazan' could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Russian Cup game only four sleeps ago.

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Akhmat Grozny form and stats

21 points is a decent return from 10 Premier League games here at Akhmat Arena for Akhmat Grozny. The data says 7 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. Akhmat Grozny has won so many consecutive home games (five in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Akhmat Arena. We remember; it was Spartak Moskva.

A nice win for Akhmat last time playing, versus Ufa. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Konovalov and Troshechkin scoring for the victors. Defender Bogosavac got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.43/10. Bogosavac hit three key passes and won 8 of 14 duels.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Khimki in a game that was won 4-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Akhmat Grozny handle that role? We have found ten games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, four draws and one defeat.

A decent goal production from Akhmat Grozny in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 10 league matches.

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Rubin Kazan' form and stats

There's been little loot from Rubin Kazan''s travels as they have only collected 8 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Rubin Kazan' only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws. It's looking increasingly bleak for Rubin Kazan' who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Sochi was the last time a defeat was avoided.

A 2-3 defeat away at Zenit before that.

We have checked recent matches where Kazan' have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those eight games were two victories, one draw and five defeats.

Rubin Kazan' are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Rubin Kazan' struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 19 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides meet on the pitch this campaign, as the fixture list show this recent fixture: Rubin Kazan' - Akhmat Grozny 2-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Akhmat victories, four draws and four Rubin Kazan' wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Rubin Kazan'A. Dreyer
A. Dreyer
7 goals
Akhmat GroznyD. Utkin
D. Utkin
6 goals
Akhmat GroznyM. Konaté
M. Konaté
6 goals

Akhmat Grozny missing players

Rubin Kazan' missing players

Akhmat Grozny Rubin Kazan'
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 10 2 Played P 3 10 19
10 7 0 Won W 1 2 6
0 0 0 Drew D 0 2 4
9 3 2 Lost L 2 6 9
26 17 0 Scored S 4 11 25
25 10 3 Conceded C 6 19 30
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
84% 80% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 84%
63% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 53%
16% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 20% 32%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 20% 16%
63% 60% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 58%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 10% 21%
26% 20% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 30% 21%
 
4.7 4.9 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 3.5 3.4
4.1 3.3 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 9 6.5 6
2.6 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.7 2.8 2.9
3 1 1 Red cards R C 2 2 2
 
15.9 17.5 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 13.8 13.5
4.8 5.2 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.2 4.6
28% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 26% 28%
 
11.1 10.8 12 Shots against (avg) S A 25.7 18.6 16.9
3.2 3 3.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.7 6.2 5.9
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Akhmat Grozny haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Rubin Kazan''s away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Rubin Kazan' 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 Zenit 19 12 5 2 47 22 10 8 1 1 31 13 9 4 4 1 16 9 25 41
2 Dinamo Moskva 19 12 3 4 36 20 10 6 2 2 19 8 9 6 1 2 17 12 16 39
3 Sochi 19 11 1 7 32 21 10 7 0 3 22 9 9 4 1 4 10 12 11 34
4 CSKA Moskva 19 10 3 6 23 16 9 5 2 2 10 5 10 5 1 4 13 11 7 33
5 Akhmat Grozny 19 10 0 9 26 25 10 7 0 3 17 10 9 3 0 6 9 15 1 30
6 Krasnodar 18 8 5 5 29 18 8 4 2 2 11 6 10 4 3 3 18 12 11 29
7 Lokomotiv Moskva 18 7 7 4 24 19 9 5 1 3 14 9 9 2 6 1 10 10 5 28
8 Krylya Sovetov 18 8 3 7 22 18 9 5 1 3 14 7 9 3 2 4 8 11 4 27
9 Spartak Moskva 19 6 5 8 20 28 10 4 3 3 14 12 9 2 2 5 6 16 -8 23
10 Rubin Kazan' 19 6 4 9 25 30 9 4 2 3 14 11 10 2 2 6 11 19 -5 22
11 Olimpiyets 19 6 4 9 19 30 10 3 1 6 10 16 9 3 3 3 9 14 -11 22
12 Ural 19 4 7 8 12 19 9 1 5 3 5 8 10 3 2 5 7 11 -7 19
13 Arsenal Tula 19 5 4 10 21 37 9 3 4 2 11 11 10 2 0 8 10 26 -16 19
14 Rostov 18 4 6 8 30 35 9 2 2 5 17 19 9 2 4 3 13 16 -5 18
15 Ufa 19 3 7 9 18 28 9 2 4 3 11 12 10 1 3 6 7 16 -10 16
16 Khimki 19 2 8 9 16 34 10 1 6 3 10 14 9 1 2 6 6 20 -18 14

Read more about Premier League

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.