Can Torpedo Moskva surprise CSKA Moskva in their own stadium?

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 13.May
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: VEB Arena (30457 seats)

CSKA Moskva are enjoying their stay in the top league spots while Torpedo Moskva are more nervous about staying out of trouble and relegation. Who will get the points?

Insights:
  • CSKA Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals (20) in Premier League

Moskva's stadium, VEB Arena, has a grass surface. Torpedo Moskva have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Torpedo Moskva when playing on grass; 11 wins, 9 draws and 12 losses from 32 matches. They have scored {37 goals} in these games and conceded 39.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

This has all the signs of an engrossing game with lots of spark and excitement as both contenders are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!

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CSKA Moskva form and stats

30 points is a decent return from 13 Premier League games here at VEB Arena for CSKA Moskva. The data says 9 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.

The CSKA Moskva supporters enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Orenburg and win 2-1. Midfielder Medina was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.02 (out of ten) in that game. Medina signed up for two assists, hit four key passes and had 41 successful passes (of 48 total).

Before that one, a strong away victory at Ural. A Russian Cup match.

Goals decide football matches and CSKA Moskva are scoring many of them at home; 31 on target from 13 league matches. CSKA Moskva have only conceded 10 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Torpedo Moskva form and stats

Torpedo Moskva have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-3-9 (13 played). It's looking increasingly bleak for Torpedo who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Fakel was the last time a defeat was avoided.

The manager Ruiz was unhappy after their last game, played at their home stadium Futbol'naya Akademiya Spartak im. F. Cherenkova. Torpedo Moskva suffered a 1-5 loss to Akhmat Grozny (placed 5th). Torpedo Moskva lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one. Ćurić got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, top player of the team. Ćurić dribled past the opponent 4 of 4 times and had 76 successful passes (of 81 total).

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Sochi wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.

The attacking power of Torpedo when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 13 league matches away. As for defending, Torpedo Moskva rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 25 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Torpedo Moskva - Moskva 1-0 was the product when these two squads formerly played each other, some time ago this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's six CSKA Moskva victories, two draws and two Torpedo Moskva wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, eight matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

CSKA MoskvaF. Chalov
F. Chalov
15 goals
MoskvaI. Oblyakov
I. Oblyakov
7 goals
CSKA MoskvaJ. Medina Maldonado
J. Medina Maldonado
6 goals

CSKA Moskva missing players

Torpedo Moskva missing players

CSKA Moskva Torpedo Moskva
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
26 13 5 Played P 4 13 26
15 9 4 Won W 0 1 3
6 3 0 Drew D 0 3 4
5 1 1 Lost L 4 9 19
48 31 13 Scored S 1 12 20
24 10 2 Conceded C 6 25 49
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
77% 85% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 77% 69%
58% 62% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 54% 46%
31% 38% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 38% 35%
12% 23% 20% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 12%
54% 54% 20% BTTS BTTS 25% 46% 42%
35% 38% 60% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 15%
15% 8% 20% Failed to Score F T 75% 46% 46%
 
5.2 6.5 5.4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 3.3 3.6
4.2 2.8 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 6.2 5.7
2 1.8 1.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.7 2.3
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
15 17.2 20.2 Shots (avg) S ( 7.5 8.8 9
5.5 6.8 6.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.2 2.5 3.1
34% 35% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 36% 25%
 
10.5 7.8 6 Shots against (avg) S A 20.8 19.4 18.3
2.9 2.1 1.4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8.2 7.6 7.1
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • CSKA Moskva have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • CSKA Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • CSKA Moskva have scored more than double the goals of Torpedo Moskva.
  • CSKA Moskva have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • CSKA Moskva have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • CSKA Moskva haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Torpedo Moskva have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Torpedo Moskva have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals (20) in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals in the second half (11) in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 26 20 4 2 68 15 13 12 0 1 45 9 13 8 4 1 23 6 53 64
2 CSKA Moskva 26 15 6 5 48 24 13 9 3 1 31 10 13 6 3 4 17 14 24 51
3 Rostov 26 14 8 4 44 34 14 8 3 3 22 18 12 6 5 1 22 16 10 50
4 Spartak Moskva 26 14 7 5 57 35 13 8 4 1 33 16 13 6 3 4 24 19 22 49
5 Akhmat Grozny 26 13 4 9 41 34 13 6 2 5 16 15 13 7 2 4 25 19 7 43
6 Krasnodar 26 12 6 8 55 42 13 7 3 3 26 18 13 5 3 5 29 24 13 42
7 Dinamo Moskva 26 12 6 8 44 35 13 8 2 3 23 13 13 4 4 5 21 22 9 42
8 Orenburg 26 12 3 11 49 50 13 9 2 2 32 17 13 3 1 9 17 33 -1 39
9 Sochi 25 10 4 11 35 45 13 7 3 3 24 17 12 3 1 8 11 28 -10 34
10 Lokomotiv Moskva 25 9 5 11 42 42 12 3 3 6 23 22 13 6 2 5 19 20 0 32
11 Ural 26 7 6 13 27 41 13 4 1 8 14 22 13 3 5 5 13 19 -14 27
12 Krylya Sovetov 26 6 7 13 26 42 12 2 5 5 9 16 14 4 2 8 17 26 -16 25
13 Fakel 26 4 12 10 33 45 13 2 8 3 19 21 13 2 4 7 14 24 -12 24
14 Olimpiyets 26 6 5 15 27 49 13 3 3 7 16 28 13 3 2 8 11 21 -22 23
15 Khimki 26 4 5 17 24 58 13 3 3 7 12 21 13 1 2 10 12 37 -34 17
16 Torpedo Moskva 26 3 4 19 20 49 13 2 1 10 8 24 13 1 3 9 12 25 -29 13

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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.