Khimki vs Lokomotiv Moskva match preview

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Thu 17.December
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Khimki (30457 seats)

Khimki hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 22 points and a 11th position in the Premier League table. Visiting Lokomotiv Moskva holds 7th place with 28 pts.

Insights:
  • Khimki haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Lokomotiv Moskva has the most clean sheets (9) in Premier League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premier League. That game was also an away game, at Krasnodar. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Khimki form and stats

Khimki have collected 13 points from their Premier League home games so far after 4-1-4. It’s been three wins in a row for Khimki here at Arena Khimki, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Khimki's last game was hosting Arsenal Tula (placed 13th) and winning 1-0. Preceding that game was the away draw at CSKA Moskva that finished 2-2.

Khimki are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 9 games. Khimki's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Lokomotiv Moskva form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Lokomotiv Moskva, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Premier League, so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose).

There might be some fixture complaints from Lokomotiv Moskva as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Premier League match against Krasnodar (0-5). A 0-2 defeat away at Bayern München before that.

Lokomotiv lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Lokomotiv as they have only managed to score 7 times from 9 away games in the league. Lokomotiv Moskva struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 15 goals conceded from these games. It's worth mentioning that 10 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Lokomotiv Moskva - Khimki 2-1 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: one - two - five (Khimki wins - draws - Lokomotiv Moskva wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KhimkiR. Mirzov
R. Mirzov
4 goals
Lokomotiv MoskvaA. Miranchuk
A. Miranchuk
4 goals
KhimkiA. Koryan
A. Koryan
3 goals

Khimki missing players

Lokomotiv Moskva missing players

Khimki Lokomotiv Moskva
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 1 9 18
6 4 2 Won W 0 2 8
4 1 0 Drew D 1 3 4
8 4 1 Lost L 0 4 6
21 9 4 Scored S 1 7 19
28 10 2 Conceded C 1 15 22
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 83%
78% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 56%
39% 22% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 44%
22% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 22%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 17%
56% 33% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 44% 44%
28% 44% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 44% 50%
17% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 22%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.6 3.6 4.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3.7 3.3
3 2 2 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
12.2 14.3 14 Shots (avg) S ( 21 10.8 12.4
4.4 4.9 5.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 8 4.4 5
26% 20% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 12% 18% 21%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Khimki haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Lokomotiv Moskva has the most clean sheets (9) in Premier League
  • Lokomotiv Moskva have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored 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 18 11 5 2 40 14 9 8 0 1 30 9 9 3 5 1 10 5 26 38
2 Spartak Moskva 18 10 5 3 32 18 9 5 3 1 17 8 9 5 2 2 15 10 14 35
3 CSKA Moskva 17 10 3 4 30 14 9 5 2 2 19 10 8 5 1 2 11 4 16 33
4 Dinamo Moskva 18 9 3 6 24 19 9 7 1 1 15 3 9 2 2 5 9 16 5 30
5 Sochi 18 8 6 4 26 22 9 5 4 0 15 8 9 3 2 4 11 14 4 30
6 Rostov 17 9 2 6 22 17 8 4 1 3 11 6 9 5 1 3 11 11 5 29
7 Lokomotiv Moskva 18 8 4 6 19 22 9 6 1 2 12 7 9 2 3 4 7 15 -3 28
8 Krasnodar 18 8 3 7 34 19 9 6 2 1 26 8 9 2 1 6 8 11 15 27
9 Rubin Kazan 18 8 3 7 24 25 9 3 3 3 11 11 9 5 0 4 13 14 -1 27
10 Akhmat Grozny 17 7 4 6 19 20 8 4 2 2 12 8 9 3 2 4 7 12 -1 25
11 Khimki 18 6 4 8 21 28 9 4 1 4 9 10 9 2 3 4 12 18 -7 22
12 Ural 17 4 7 6 13 20 9 3 4 2 9 9 8 1 3 4 4 11 -7 19
13 Arsenal Tula 18 3 5 10 17 29 9 3 4 2 12 10 9 0 1 8 5 19 -12 14
14 Ufa 18 3 4 11 14 30 9 1 3 5 8 11 9 2 1 6 6 19 -16 13
15 Tambov 18 3 3 12 12 28 9 2 1 6 5 9 9 1 2 6 7 19 -16 12
16 Rotor Volgograd 18 2 5 11 8 30 9 1 1 7 3 14 9 1 4 4 5 16 -22 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.