Football preview: Home supporters have high expectations when CSKA Moskva host Khimki

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 21.November
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: VEB Arena (30457 seats)

CSKA Moskva are considered as probable winners of this home match against Khimki, if the league positions are to be trusted. Or are we looking at a possible?

Insights:
  • CSKA Moskva have the most clean sheets (6) in Premier League
  • Khimki have the the worst goal difference (-11) away in Premier League

This should be an engaging game with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well renewed since they last ran out on the pitch. Bring it on!

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CSKA Moskva form and stats

13 points is a decent return from 6 Premier League games here at VEB Arena for CSKA Moskva. The data says 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

Moskva faced defeat in their previous match, away at Sochi (1-4). Baktiyar Zaynutdinov (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.35/10. Zaynutdinov scored one goal.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Rubin Kazan' (0-1).

CSKA Moskva has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. CSKA Moskva have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.

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Khimki form and stats

There's been little loot from Khimki's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 7 away games in the Premier League. Khimki only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 1 draw. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Khimki are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Khimki aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 180 league minutes without a goal. K. Ademi was the last player to find the net.

Khimki lost away at Krylya Sovetov (0-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Kirill Bozhenov got a match rating of 7.35 in that game, top player of the team. Bozhenov hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 34 successful passes (of 40 total).

A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Ural.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Khimki as they have only managed to score 5 times from 7 away games in the league. Khimki have conceded 16 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Moskva-Khimki H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: CSKA Moskva seven wins, Khimki zero wins, three draws. six of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

KhimkiD. Glushakov
D. Glushakov
6 goals
CSKA MoskvaC. Ejuke
C. Ejuke
4 goals
MoskvaF. Chalov
F. Chalov
3 goals

CSKA Moskva missing players

Khimki missing players

CSKA Moskva Khimki
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 2 7 14
7 4 1 Won W 0 1 2
2 1 0 Drew D 0 1 6
5 1 0 Lost L 2 5 6
18 8 1 Scored S 1 5 11
14 3 0 Conceded C 7 16 22
93% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 79%
57% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 71% 71%
43% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 71% 43%
29% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 43% 29%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 29% 14%
43% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 43% 50%
43% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 29% 36%
21% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 43% 36%
 
5.4 7.3 13 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.4 5.1
5 5.7 2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.5 4 4.4
1.7 2.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.4 2.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
14.5 16 22 Shots (avg) S ( 6.5 10.3 12.3
5 5.3 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.9 3.9
26% 25% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 19% 20%
 
14.4 15.7 14 Shots against (avg) S A 14.5 14.1 13.4
3.9 3.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8 6 5.6
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • CSKA Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • CSKA Moskva have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in Premier League
  • CSKA Moskva have the most clean sheets (4) at home in Premier League
  • CSKA Moskva have the most clean sheets (6) in Premier League
  • CSKA Moskva have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • 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 the worst goal difference (-11) away in Premier League

  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 14 9 3 2 34 16 7 6 0 1 21 8 7 3 3 1 13 8 18 30
2 Sochi 14 9 0 5 24 16 6 5 0 1 15 5 8 4 0 4 9 11 8 27
3 Dinamo Moskva 14 8 2 4 22 16 7 4 1 2 11 6 7 4 1 2 11 10 6 26
4 Lokomotiv Moskva 14 6 7 1 20 13 6 4 1 1 11 6 8 2 6 0 9 7 7 25
5 CSKA Moskva 14 7 2 5 18 14 6 4 1 1 8 3 8 3 1 4 10 11 4 23
6 Krylya Sovetov 14 7 1 6 19 16 6 4 0 2 11 5 8 3 1 4 8 11 3 22
7 Krasnodar 14 6 3 5 22 13 6 3 1 2 9 5 8 3 2 3 13 8 9 21
8 Rubin Kazan' 14 5 4 5 18 19 8 4 2 2 12 8 6 1 2 3 6 11 -1 19
9 Spartak Moskva 14 5 4 5 16 19 8 3 3 2 12 9 6 2 1 3 4 10 -3 19
10 Akhmat Grozny 14 6 0 8 15 20 7 4 0 3 9 8 7 2 0 5 6 12 -5 18
11 Rostov 14 4 4 6 25 25 7 2 1 4 14 13 7 2 3 2 11 12 0 16
12 Ufa 14 3 5 6 14 19 8 2 3 3 10 11 6 1 2 3 4 8 -5 14
13 Olimpiyets 14 4 2 8 15 24 7 1 0 6 7 15 7 3 2 2 8 9 -9 14
14 Arsenal Tula 14 3 4 7 15 26 8 2 4 2 8 10 6 1 0 5 7 16 -11 13
15 Khimki 14 2 6 6 11 22 7 1 5 1 6 6 7 1 1 5 5 16 -11 12
16 Ural 14 2 5 7 5 15 8 1 4 3 4 7 6 1 1 4 1 8 -10 11

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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.