Open game expected at Arena Khimki: Khimki vs Akhmat Grozny preview

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 17.October
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Khimki (30457 seats)

Khimki are aching to add to their goals scored at their own stadium in this upcoming fixture hosting Akhmat Grozny.

Insights:
  • Khimki have yet to win a game at home.
  • Akhmat Grozny have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

This has all the signs of an intriguing game with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well revitalized since they last played a game. Bring it on!

These teams have little in common geographically as Akhmat Grozny have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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Khimki form and stats

0 victories, 4 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Khimki have to build on here at Arena Khimki in the Premier League. Khimki has four consecutive draws when playing at home, an interesting stat.

D. Glushakov was the last player to score a league goal for Khimki and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Khimki haven't scored in 180 minutes. Nothing to worry about in defence for Khimki, as their goalkeeper Ilya Lantratov has completely shut out the opponents for 188 minutes in the Premier League.

Khimki drew their last game, 0-0 away at Arsenal Tula (placed 13th). Defender Oleksandr Filin got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.52/10. Filin won 10 of 14 duels.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Lokomotiv Moskva.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Khimki have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found eight matches with the results: Won four, drawn one and lost three.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Khimki here at Arena Khimki in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). Khimki have conceded 6 in these home matches.

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Akhmat Grozny form and stats

2 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Akhmat Grozny playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier League home defeat versus Spartak Moskva with 0-1 on the scoreboard. Andrey Semenov, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.12. Semenov won 2 of 2 duels.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Rostov at their stadium, the result 2-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Akhmat in our archives, and the results are: eight wins for Akhmat Grozny, two draws and three defeats.

Akhmat Grozny are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 5 games (in the league). As for defending, Akhmat rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 9 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: two - zero - seven (Khimki wins - draws - Akhmat Grozny wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KhimkiD. Glushakov
D. Glushakov
6 goals
Akhmat GroznyI. Konovalov
I. Konovalov
3 goals
Akhmat GroznyD. Utkin
D. Utkin
3 goals

Khimki missing players

Akhmat Grozny missing players

Khimki Akhmat Grozny
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 1 5 10
1 0 0 Won W 1 2 4
5 4 1 Drew D 0 0 0
4 1 0 Lost L 0 3 6
8 4 1 Scored S 2 6 11
15 6 1 Conceded C 1 9 16
80% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
70% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
40% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 80% 70%
30% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 10%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
60% 80% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 80% 70%
30% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
30% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 30%
 
5.7 6.2 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.4 4.2
4.8 5.4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 6.4 4.6
2.2 2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3.6 2.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
13.2 14.8 13 Shots (avg) S ( 16 13.4 13.6
4.5 4.8 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7 5 4.1
18% 17% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 24% 27%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Akhmat Grozny have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Akhmat Grozny have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Akhmat Grozny haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Akhmat Grozny's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Khimki have yet to win a game at home.

  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 10 7 2 1 22 12 5 4 0 1 10 6 5 3 2 0 12 6 10 23
2 Dinamo Moskva 10 6 1 3 14 9 5 2 1 2 6 5 5 4 0 1 8 4 5 19
3 Sochi 10 6 0 4 14 10 4 3 0 1 8 2 6 3 0 3 6 8 4 18
4 Krasnodar 10 5 2 3 17 9 4 3 0 1 8 3 6 2 2 2 9 6 8 17
5 CSKA Moskva 10 5 2 3 13 8 5 3 1 1 5 2 5 2 1 2 8 6 5 17
6 Lokomotiv Moskva 10 4 5 1 13 8 5 3 1 1 9 5 5 1 4 0 4 3 5 17
7 Spartak Moskva 10 5 1 4 11 8 5 3 0 2 8 5 5 2 1 2 3 3 3 16
8 Rubin Kazan 10 4 2 4 13 11 6 3 1 2 9 6 4 1 1 2 4 5 2 14
9 Olimpiyets 10 4 2 4 12 13 5 1 0 4 5 9 5 3 2 0 7 4 -1 14
10 Krylya Sovetov 10 4 1 5 12 13 4 2 0 2 6 5 6 2 1 3 6 8 -1 13
11 Akhmat Grozny 10 4 0 6 11 16 5 2 0 3 5 7 5 2 0 3 6 9 -5 12
12 Rostov 10 2 3 5 13 20 5 0 1 4 5 12 5 2 2 1 8 8 -7 9
13 Arsenal Tula 10 2 3 5 12 19 5 1 3 1 5 7 5 1 0 4 7 12 -7 9
14 Ural 10 2 3 5 5 13 6 1 3 2 4 6 4 1 0 3 1 7 -8 9
15 Ufa 10 2 2 6 11 17 6 1 2 3 8 10 4 1 0 3 3 7 -6 8
16 Khimki 10 1 5 4 8 15 5 0 4 1 4 6 5 1 1 3 4 9 -7 8

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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.