Sochi greet Akhmat Grozny for another entertaining Premier League fixture here at Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht.
It's quite the trip for Akhmat Grozny when visiting Sochi as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
Both participants have had ample time to rest since their previous match. Let's have faith in that this will be an energetic game!
Sochi form and stats
The hosts won their first Premier League game here at Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Sochi last season were 8 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses from 15 games.
In their previous game, the manager Khokhlov led his Sochi to a defeat away at Krasnodar. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht. The attacker Miguel won the honour of being "man of the match" for Sochi with a rating of 7.42/10. Miguel hit one key pass.
Before that, a nice away win at Fakel. A Russian Cup match.
Sochi are traveling soon after this match as the Russian Cup match at Orenburg awaits in three days.
Sochi has scored {2 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Akhmat Grozny form and stats
Akhmat's previous game was their home loss versus CSKA Moskva (2-3). Oleynikov got a match rating of 8.03 in that game, top player of the team. Oleynikov hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times.
A defeat, in the Russian Cup away at Zenit, earlier.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Baltika in just four days.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Sochi six wins, one draw and Akhmat Grozny one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Konaté 2 goals |   V. Drkušić 1 goals |  M. Kramarič 1 goals |
Sochi missing players
Akhmat Grozny missing players
| Sochi | Akhmat Grozny | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 0.5 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | 12 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 17.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| 25% | 67% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 43% |
| 12 | 9 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 10.5 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5.5 |
| Sochi | Last season | Akhmat Grozny | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 11 | 8 | Won | W | 8 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 37 | 26 | Scored | S | 30 | 51 | ||
| 54 | 18 | Conceded | C | 22 | 39 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 93% | ||
| 90% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 87% | 80% | ||
| 63% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 80% | 70% | ||
| 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 33% | ||
| 10% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 17% | ||
| 47% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 80% | 70% | ||
| 17% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 27% | ||
| 37% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 7% | 10% | ||
| 4.8 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 4.6 | ||
| 4.5 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.9 | 5.2 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.7 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 14.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.1 | 13.2 | ||
| 4.3 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 4.9 | ||
| 29% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 34% | ||
| 12.9 | 10.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.5 | 13.1 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 4.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Krasnodar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Zenit | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Krylya Sovetov | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Rostov | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Ural | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Spartak Moskva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | CSKA Moskva | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Sochi | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Orenburg | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 1 |
| 12 | Dinamo Moskva | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 13 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 |
| 14 | Akhmat Grozny | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Baltika | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 16 | Fakel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 30 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 74 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 26 | 9 | 54 | 70 |
| 2 | CSKA Moskva | 30 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 56 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 38 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 29 | 58 |
| 3 | Spartak Moskva | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 60 | 38 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 22 | 54 |
| 4 | Rostov | 30 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 48 | 44 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 24 | 4 | 53 |
| 5 | Akhmat Grozny | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 51 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 22 | 12 | 50 |
| 6 | Krasnodar | 30 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 62 | 46 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 28 | 16 | 48 |
| 7 | Orenburg | 30 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 58 | 55 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 21 | 36 | 3 | 46 |
| 8 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 54 | 46 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 8 | 45 |
| 9 | Dinamo Moskva | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 49 | 45 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 25 | 4 | 45 |
| 10 | Sochi | 30 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 37 | 54 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 36 | -17 | 38 |
| 11 | Ural | 30 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 33 | 45 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -12 | 36 |
| 12 | Krylya Sovetov | 30 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 32 | 45 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 18 | 28 | -13 | 32 |
| 13 | Fakel | 30 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 36 | 48 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 22 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 26 | -12 | 30 |
| 14 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 33 | 50 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 28 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 22 | -17 | 30 |
| 15 | Khimki | 30 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 25 | 67 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 25 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 42 | -42 | 18 |
| 16 | Torpedo Moskva | 30 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 22 | 61 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 30 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 31 | -39 | 13 |
