Sochi will want to employ their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s opponents. The home team are currently 11 points behind Spartak Moskva.
- Sochi have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier League
- Spartak Moskva have the most scored goals (17) away in Premier League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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 form and stats
17 points is a decent return from 7 Premier League games here at Olimpiyskiy Stadion Fisht for Sochi. The data says 5 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses.
The home club members saw a 2-2 draw versus Ural last time out and are looking for a victory here. The hometeam coach Garanin made a successful contribution in the game against Ural, bringing on Sissako who scored the equalizer in the 2-2 draw. Midfielder Noboa was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.25 (out of ten) in that game. Noboa scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Prior to that, an away loss at Zenit.Lots of goals? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 13 of the 15 most recent league games with this club has contained at least three goals.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Sochi as they are travelling to their away game against Torpedo Moskva in the Russian Cup. That match is three days after this one.
Goals decide football matches and Sochi are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 7 league matches.
Spartak Moskva form and stats
4-2-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Spartak Moskva, who have the most scored goals (17) away in Premier League, in their Premier League matches away.
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. Spartak goalkeeper Aleksandr Selikhov is eager to challenge this, with his 194 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
The club members enjoyed Spartak Moskva's previous game versus Torpedo Moskva (placed 16th), a 1-0 win played at home. The attacker Promes got a match rating of 8.0 in that game. Promes scored one goal, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 34 successful passes (of 41 total).
Before that, Spartak Moskva secured a home win against Khimki with the score 5-0.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Spartak manager Perez as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Krylya Sovetov.
Spartak Moskva have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 17 goals from 8 away matches. 11 goals have been conceded by Spartak in these games.
Head 2 Head
These competitors have met before this season: Spartak Moskva - Sochi 3-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sochi four wins, one draw and Spartak Moskva five victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  Q. Promes 12 goals |   C. Noboa Tello 10 goals |  A. Sobolev 7 goals |
Sochi missing players
Spartak Moskva missing players
| Sochi | Spartak Moskva | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | 17 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 17 | 37 |
| 31 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 11 | 16 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 88% | 80% |
| 87% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 62% | 67% |
| 47% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 47% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 38% | 40% |
| 67% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 60% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 12% | 33% |
| 27% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | 7% |
| 5.9 | 8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.1 | 4.6 |
| 3.9 | 2.9 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 2.8 | 3.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 17.6 | 15 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 17.5 | 17.1 |
| 4.7 | 6.3 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.6 | 6.8 |
| 34% | 39% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 32% | 36% |
| 12.5 | 8.7 | 14 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.5 | 11.5 | 11 |
| 4.9 | 2.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4 |
- All of Sochi's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Sochi have not yet lost a game at home.
- Sochi have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sochi have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Sochi have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Premier League
- Sochi have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Sochi have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sochi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Spartak Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Spartak Moskva have the most scored goals (17) away in Premier League
- Spartak Moskva 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 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 39 | 39 |
| 2 | Spartak Moskva | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 37 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 21 | 32 |
| 3 | CSKA Moskva | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 29 |
| 4 | Rostov | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 29 |
| 5 | Dinamo Moskva | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 26 |
| 6 | Krasnodar | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 24 |
| 7 | Akhmat Grozny | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 23 |
| 8 | Orenburg | 15 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 28 | 34 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 24 | -6 | 22 |
| 9 | Sochi | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 31 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 24 | -7 | 21 |
| 10 | Krylya Sovetov | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | -5 | 17 |
| 11 | Ural | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -9 | 17 |
| 12 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 27 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -9 | 13 |
| 13 | Fakel | 15 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 17 | -10 | 12 |
| 14 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 15 | -13 | 12 |
| 15 | Khimki | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 25 | -20 | 9 |
| 16 | Torpedo Moskva | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 14 | -19 | 6 |
