It's advantage CSKA Moskva so far with their 3rd position in the Premier League table, welcoming Lokomotiv Moskva who are placed 7th.
CSKA Moskva and Lokomotiv Moskva should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.
CSKA Moskva form and stats
CSKA Moskva must be fairly happy with 6 points from their first three Premier League games here at VEB Arena.
A good away victory last time out for Moskva, who won 1-0 against Ufa (placed 14th). Ahead of that match, Moskva won a home game hosting Spartak Moskva (3-1).
The victory against Ufa came after Kristijan Bistrović's winning goal. The Moskva manager V. Goncharenko was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 61st minute.
Moskva can score goals in their home matches. After 3 league matches they have found the net 6 times. 4 goals have been conceded.
Lokomotiv Moskva form and stats
The visitors are W1-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.
The Lokomotiv goalkeeper Guilherme Alvim Marinato is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 302 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing from Fedor Smolov secured the home win 1-0 against Tambov in their previous game. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Rostov.
Lokomotiv are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 4 away goals from 4 games (in the league). It's not easy to score on Lokomotiv as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Moskva two wins, four draws and Lokomotiv Moskva four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  K. Kuchaev 4 goals |  N. Vlašić 4 goals | K. Bistrović 2 goals |
CSKA Moskva missing players
Lokomotiv Moskva missing players
| CSKA Moskva | Lokomotiv Moskva | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | 6 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 75% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
| 62% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 25% | 25% |
| 12% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 62% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 38% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.6 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 120 | 39 | 17 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 44 | 95 |
| 50 | 13 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 16 | 37 |
| 28% | 46% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 25% | 22% |
- All of CSKA Moskva's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- CSKA Moskva has the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Premier League
- CSKA Moskva have scored in all their matches so far.
- CSKA Moskva 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 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 17 |
| 2 | Spartak Moskva | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | CSKA Moskva | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | Sochi | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 15 |
| 5 | Krasnodar | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 14 |
| 6 | Dinamo Moskva | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 8 | Rubin Kazan' | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 9 | Rostov | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 10 | Ural | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Akhmat Grozny | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 10 |
| 12 | Arsenal Tula | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 8 |
| 13 | Tambov | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 7 |
| 14 | Ufa | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 5 |
| 15 | Khimki | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -11 | 3 |
| 16 | Rotor Volgograd | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -9 | 2 |