Evenly matched teams: Rubin Kazan' vs Khimki match preview

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Fri 01.April
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kazan' Arena (42873 seats)

Rubin Kazan' have harvested 14 of their 25 in total here at their home arena. What will happen against Khimki?

Insights:
  • Rubin Kazan' have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Khimki have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Premier League

It's quite the trip for Khimki when visiting Rubin Kazan' as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Rubin Kazan' form and stats

When playing at home in the Premier League, Rubin Kazan' have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 10 games. Rubin Kazan' are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Kazan' Arena, having lost their two previous games here.

Kazan' lost their last game at CSKA Moskva (placed 3rd) after a 1-6 scoreline. Kuchaev (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.83/10. Kuchaev scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 31 successful passes (of 36 total).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Rostov (1-2).

A decent goal production from Rubin Kazan' in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Khimki form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Khimki so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-7 (win-draw-lose).

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Khimki goalkeeper Ilya Lantratov is eager to challenge this, with his 190 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Khimki play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Ural (placed 13th). Midfield player Glushakov was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.84/10. Glushakov hit three key passes and had 30 successful passes (of 35 total).

Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Sochi.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Khimki as they have only managed to score 9 times from 11 away games in the league. Khimki have conceded 23 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two teams face each other this season, as the history books show this recent match: Khimki - Rubin Kazan' 1-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Rubin Kazan' wins - draws - Khimki wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

KhimkiD. Glushakov
D. Glushakov
7 goals
KhimkiI. Kukharchuk
I. Kukharchuk
3 goals

Rubin Kazan' missing players

Khimki missing players

Rubin Kazan' Khimki
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 10 3 Played P 4 11 22
7 4 1 Won W 0 2 3
4 2 0 Drew D 0 2 9
11 4 2 Lost L 4 7 10
29 15 5 Scored S 4 9 19
39 13 3 Conceded C 13 23 37
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 82% 77%
86% 70% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 64% 68%
59% 60% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 64% 50%
32% 40% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 75% 45% 32%
18% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 36% 23%
64% 60% 33% BTTS BTTS 75% 45% 50%
18% 30% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 36% 36%
18% 10% 33% Failed to Score F T 25% 36% 36%
 
3.4 3.5 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.4 4.7
5.8 5.2 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.5 5.1
3 3.1 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 3 2.7
5 1 1 Red cards R C 1 1 5
 
12.9 13.2 15.3 Shots (avg) S ( 10.2 11.9 11.8
4.5 5.1 6.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4 3.8
30% 29% 26% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 20% 23%
 
16.8 14.8 11 Shots against (avg) S A 18.8 15.1 14.9
6.1 5.6 4.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.8 5.9 6.4
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Khimki have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Khimki have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Khimki have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Premier League
  • Rubin Kazan' have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 Zenit 22 14 6 2 53 23 12 10 1 1 36 13 10 4 5 1 17 10 30 48
2 Dinamo Moskva 22 13 4 5 41 24 12 6 3 3 20 11 10 7 1 2 21 13 17 43
3 CSKA Moskva 22 13 3 6 32 18 11 7 2 2 17 6 11 6 1 4 15 12 14 42
4 Sochi 22 12 2 8 35 24 11 7 0 4 24 12 11 5 2 4 11 12 11 38
5 Krasnodar 21 10 6 5 34 21 9 5 2 2 13 7 12 5 4 3 21 14 13 36
6 Lokomotiv Moskva 21 9 7 5 31 25 11 6 1 4 18 13 10 3 6 1 13 12 6 34
7 Krylya Sovetov 21 9 5 7 28 23 11 5 3 3 17 10 10 4 2 4 11 13 5 32
8 Akhmat Grozny 22 10 1 11 29 30 12 7 0 5 20 15 10 3 1 6 9 15 -1 31
9 Spartak Moskva 22 7 6 9 24 31 11 4 3 4 15 14 11 3 3 5 9 17 -7 27
10 Rubin Kazan' 22 7 4 11 29 39 10 4 2 4 15 13 12 3 2 7 14 26 -10 25
11 Olimpiyets 22 6 6 10 20 32 11 3 2 6 11 17 11 3 4 4 9 15 -12 24
12 Rostov 21 5 7 9 33 38 10 2 2 6 17 20 11 3 5 3 16 18 -5 22
13 Ural 22 4 8 10 13 22 11 1 6 4 5 9 11 3 2 6 8 13 -9 20
14 Arsenal Tula 22 5 5 12 24 46 10 3 4 3 12 15 12 2 1 9 12 31 -22 20
15 Ufa 22 3 9 10 19 31 11 2 6 3 12 13 11 1 3 7 7 18 -12 18
16 Khimki 22 3 9 10 19 37 11 1 7 3 10 14 11 2 2 7 9 23 -18 18

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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.