Sochi expected to challenge Khimki at their own home

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 16.May
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Khimki (30457 seats)

Khimki will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Sochi.

Insights:
  • Khimki haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sochi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

Sochi have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1600 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

Khimki are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. Sochi are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Khimki form and stats

28 points is a decent return from 14 Premier League games here at Arena Khimki for Khimki. The data says 9 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. Khimki has won so many consecutive home games (eight in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Arena Khimki. We remember; it was Zenit.

Khimki lost their last game at Spartak Moskva (placed 2nd) after a 1-2 scoreline. Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Ural.

Ilya Lantratov had a busy but productive day in the Spartak Moskva match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented.

Khimki has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. Khimki have only conceded 13 from their league home games. 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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Sochi form and stats

As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Sochi have produced an overall stat of 5-3-6 so far. The fact that Sochi have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Sochi are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

Aleksandr Rudenko and Artur Yusupov scored in Sochi's previous match, the home game against Rotor Volgograd that ended 2-1. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Krasnodar at their stadium, the result 3-1.

The end of the last match, against Rotor Volgograd, was very satisfying as Artur Yusupov scored the winning goal deep into overtime.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Sochi have scored 18 goals in 14 league games away. Sochi struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 21 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Sochi - Khimki 1-1, played this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Khimki zero wins, two draws and Sochi one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SochiC. Noboa Tello
C. Noboa Tello
12 goals
SochiA. Zabolotnyi
A. Zabolotnyi
9 goals
SochiA. Yusupov
A. Yusupov
7 goals

Khimki missing players

Sochi missing players

Khimki Sochi
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 4 14 29
13 9 2 Won W 1 5 15
5 1 0 Drew D 2 3 7
11 4 2 Lost L 1 6 7
35 17 7 Scored S 3 18 49
39 13 7 Conceded C 4 21 33
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 93% 93%
69% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 64% 76%
41% 29% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 57% 55%
24% 14% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 50% 38%
10% 14% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 14% 17%
52% 36% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 64% 62%
34% 50% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 21% 31%
17% 14% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 21% 14%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.1 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 3 2.8
7 5 0 Red cards R C 2 4 5
 
11.8 14.4 17 Shots (avg) S ( 9 11.7 13.6
4.1 4.7 7.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.8 4.3 5.5
29% 26% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 27% 30% 31%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Khimki haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Sochi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 29 18 8 3 71 25 15 13 1 1 53 13 14 5 7 2 18 12 46 62
2 Spartak Moskva 29 17 5 7 54 35 15 9 3 3 31 16 14 8 2 4 23 19 19 56
3 Lokomotiv Moskva 29 16 5 8 44 35 14 10 2 2 23 9 15 6 3 6 21 26 9 53
4 Sochi 29 15 7 7 49 33 15 10 4 1 31 12 14 5 3 6 18 21 16 52
5 Rubin Kazan 29 16 4 9 41 32 14 6 3 5 17 16 15 10 1 4 24 16 9 52
6 CSKA Moskva 29 15 5 9 49 30 15 8 4 3 31 17 14 7 1 6 18 13 19 50
7 Dinamo Moskva 29 14 5 10 41 31 14 9 2 3 24 8 15 5 3 7 17 23 10 47
8 Khimki 29 13 5 11 35 39 14 9 1 4 17 13 15 4 4 7 18 26 -4 44
9 Rostov 29 13 4 12 36 32 14 6 2 6 17 13 15 7 2 6 19 19 4 43
10 Akhmat Grozny 29 11 6 12 34 36 14 7 3 4 21 13 15 4 3 8 13 23 -2 39
11 Krasnodar 29 11 5 13 49 44 15 7 4 4 34 23 14 4 1 9 15 21 5 38
12 Ural 29 7 13 9 26 35 15 6 6 3 14 11 14 1 7 6 12 24 -9 34
13 Arsenal Tula 29 6 5 18 27 49 15 6 4 5 22 20 14 0 1 13 5 29 -22 23
14 Ufa 29 5 7 17 24 45 14 2 4 8 13 18 15 3 3 9 11 27 -21 22
15 Rotor Volgograd 29 5 6 18 14 51 15 3 2 10 5 23 14 2 4 8 9 28 -37 21
16 Tambov 29 3 4 22 18 60 14 2 2 10 10 24 15 1 2 12 8 36 -42 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.