Betting prediction and preview: Spartak Moskva fancied to be better team when visiting Khimki

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 13.May
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Arena Khimki (30457 seats)

A quick look at the Premier League table suggest an upper hand to Spartak Moskva when they come to Khimki. However; let's play before we elect a winner!

Insights:
  • Khimki have the most conceded goals (58) in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (17) in Premier League

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Khimki form and stats

Khimki's results here at Arena Khimki in the Premier League have been very modest with 3 victories, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

Khimki's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Dinamo Moskva (placed 7th). Heartbreak for Khimki in their last match as Dinamo Moskva's Smolov scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Léo was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.1 out of 10. The defender Léo won 4 of 9 duels.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Lokomotiv Moskva (1-5).

Khimki aren't scoring a lot here at Arena Khimki in the league, with only {12 goals} from 13 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Khimki defense is not exactly impregnable. 21 goals conceded from 13 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Spartak Moskva form and stats

6-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Spartak Moskva in their Premier League matches away.

Spartak Moskva are travelling again after losing away to Zenit in their previous match (2-3). That loss was their first after five consecutive league fixtures winning points. Spartak were so close to getting something from the game against Zenit, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal one minutes into overtime. Promes, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.34. Promes scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 34 successful passes (of 41 total).

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Rostov.

Sports betting fact: Both teams have scored goal(s) in 9 of this club's last 11 league fixtures.

Spartak Moskva has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 24 goals from 13 games. As opposed to that, Spartak Moskva have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The latest reported result involving both these participants is the Spartak Moskva - Khimki 5-0 played previously this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Khimki won one game, two matches ended with a tie and Spartak Moskva have seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: eight / two.

Top Goalscorers

Spartak MoskvaQ. Promes
Q. Promes
18 goals
Spartak MoskvaA. Sobolev
A. Sobolev
12 goals
KhimkiB. Magomedov
B. Magomedov
5 goals

Khimki missing players

Spartak Moskva missing players

Khimki Spartak Moskva
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 13 4 Played P 4 13 26
4 3 0 Won W 4 6 14
5 3 1 Drew D 0 3 7
17 7 3 Lost L 0 4 5
24 12 3 Scored S 10 24 57
58 21 7 Conceded C 3 19 35
88% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
77% 69% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 92% 85%
62% 46% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 62% 65%
42% 23% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 38% 46%
27% 15% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 31% 38%
50% 31% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 77% 69%
19% 31% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 8% 23%
42% 54% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 15% 12%
 
3.5 4.2 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 4 5.2 5.4
4.5 4.5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.4 4.2
2.3 2.2 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.2 2.5
3 3 1 Red cards R C 2 4 4
 
11 11.2 8 Shots (avg) S ( 21 16.5 17.1
3.5 3.2 3.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 8.5 5.7 6.4
26% 29% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 32% 34%
 
16.1 14.8 14.5 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 12 10.4
6.9 6.5 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.2 4.3 4
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Khimki have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Khimki have the fewest scored goals in the first half (4) in Premier League
  • Khimki have the most conceded goals (58) in Premier League
  • Khimki have the most conceded goals in the first half (31) in Premier League
  • Khimki have the the worst goal difference (-34) in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva have scored more than double the goals of Khimki.
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (17) in Premier League
  • Spartak 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.