Premier League duel: Close contest expected between FK Nizjni Novgorod and Rubin Kazan

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 02.Sep
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Nizhny Novgorod (17800 seats)

FK Nizjni Novgorod have enginereed 2 home wins up until now, Rubin Kazan have won 0 away. Who enhances their results after this one?

Insights:
  • FK Nizjni Novgorod have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premier League
  • Rubin Kazan have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Premier League

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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FK Nizjni Novgorod form and stats

FK Nizjni Novgorod have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Premier League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.

The FK Nizjni Novgorod followers got no joy from their last match, a Russian Cup duel also played here at Stadion Nizhny Novgorod: A 0-1 defeat against Krasnodar.

Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Rostov in a game that was won 1-0.

Betting heads-up: This club have finished 6 league games in a row with only one (or none) club finding the net.

Novgorod are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion Nizhny Novgorod in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.

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Rubin Kazan form and stats

The Premier League season is young and Rubin Kazan have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 2 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 1 defeat so far.

The fans enjoyed Rubin Kazan's previous game versus Ural, a Russian Cup win (2-1) played at home.

Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Dinamo Moskva in the Premier League.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Rubin Kazan has managed {2 goals} and let in 5 from 2 matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last three meetings: two - zero - one (Novgorod wins - draws - Rubin Kazan wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less. One of the stars has been Kalinski with 3 goals scored against Rubin Kazan in these 3 games.

Top Goalscorers

Rubin KazanJ. Fameyeh
J. Fameyeh
3 goals
Rubin KazanM. Daku
M. Daku
2 goals
FK Nizjni NovgorodT. Suleymanov
T. Suleymanov
1 goals

FK Nizjni Novgorod missing players

Rubin Kazan missing players

FK Nizjni Novgorod Rubin Kazan
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 2 6
2 2 1 Won W 0 0 1
1 0 0 Drew D 1 1 3
3 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
3 3 1 Scored S 2 2 8
5 2 0 Conceded C 2 5 13
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 83%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 50% 83%
50% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
67% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 17%
 
2.2 2 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4 4
6.8 6 8 Corners against (avg) C A 8 6.5 5.7
1.2 1.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.7
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
9.3 9 14 Shots (avg) S ( 19 14.5 12.2
2 2.7 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 4.5 4.3
25% 38% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 22% 31%
 
9.7 10.3 10 Shots against (avg) S A 13 13.5 13
1.5 0.7 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 7 5.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Rubin Kazan's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • FK Nizjni Novgorod have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • FK Nizjni Novgorod have the fewest scored goals (3) in Premier League
  • FK Nizjni Novgorod have the fewest scored goals in the second half (1) in Premier League
  • Rubin Kazan have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Rubin Kazan have scored more than double the goals of FK Nizjni Novgorod.
  • Rubin Kazan have the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in Premier League
  • Rubin Kazan have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Premier League
  • Rubin Kazan have yet to win a game away.
  • 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 Krasnodar 6 4 2 0 9 2 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 2 1 0 5 1 7 14
2 Zenit 6 4 1 1 14 5 3 2 0 1 8 3 3 2 1 0 6 2 9 13
3 Ural 6 4 1 1 8 7 3 2 1 0 5 3 3 2 0 1 3 4 1 13
4 Krylya Sovetov 6 3 2 1 14 9 3 2 1 0 10 5 3 1 1 1 4 4 5 11
5 Dinamo Moskva 6 3 2 1 13 11 3 2 0 1 5 4 3 1 2 0 8 7 2 11
6 CSKA Moskva 6 3 1 2 13 9 2 2 0 0 7 2 4 1 1 2 6 7 4 10
7 Spartak Moskva 6 3 1 2 12 10 4 2 1 1 6 6 2 1 0 1 6 4 2 10
8 Lokomotiv Moskva 6 2 3 1 10 9 2 0 2 0 3 3 4 2 1 1 7 6 1 9
9 Akhmat Grozny 6 2 1 3 9 8 3 1 0 2 7 5 3 1 1 1 2 3 1 7
10 FK Nizjni Novgorod 6 2 1 3 3 5 3 2 0 1 3 2 3 0 1 2 0 3 -2 7
11 Rostov 6 2 1 3 7 12 3 2 1 0 6 2 3 0 0 3 1 10 -5 7
12 Sochi 6 2 0 4 8 8 4 2 0 2 7 3 2 0 0 2 1 5 0 6
13 Rubin Kazan 6 1 3 2 8 13 4 1 2 1 6 8 2 0 1 1 2 5 -5 6
14 Fakel 6 1 1 4 5 10 3 1 1 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 2 6 -5 4
15 Baltika 6 1 0 5 4 10 2 1 0 1 2 2 4 0 0 4 2 8 -6 3
16 Orenburg 6 0 2 4 4 13 3 0 1 2 1 5 3 0 1 2 3 8 -9 2

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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.