Football betting preview: Spartak Moskva favourites when Ural visits

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 14.August
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Otkrytiye Arena (16500 seats)

This has the looks of yet another intriguing meeting at Otkrytiye Arena in the Premier League. Spartak Moskva is in 11th place and host Ural in 15th spot. Learn more about the game here!

Insights:
  • Ural have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premier League

Spartak have less rest than Ural in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Champions League game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Benfica, so at least Spartak are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

These teams have little in common geographically as Ural have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

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Spartak Moskva form and stats

Spartak Moskva's first Premier League home game here at Otkrytiye Arena ended in defeat. Last season their home statistics were 9 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats from 15 matches.

In their previous game, the manager R. Pinho da Vitória led his Spartak to a defeat in the Champions League match away at Benfica. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Otkrytiye Arena. Georgiy Dzhikiya was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.12 out of 10. The defender Dzhikiya hit one key pass and won 6 of 8 duels.

Before that game, the home loss against Olimpiyets with the scoreline 1-2.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Spartak home games with this odds we find five games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, zero draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, three matches were won by at least two goals.

Early season league goal statistics from Spartak Moskva's 1 home game: 1 goal, 2 conceded.

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Ural form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Premier League ended in defeat. Last season Ural had these away match statistics: Played 15; won 1, drew 7 and lost 7.

There might be some fixture complaints from Ural as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Premier League match against Sochi (0-2). Vladimir Rykov was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.41. The defender Rykov hit one key pass and won 1 of 5 duels.

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

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Ural played away with similar odds. This revealed six games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, three were draws and the home team won as expected three times.

0 goals so far away for Ural, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Spartak wins - draws - Ural wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Spartak MoskvaA. Sobolev
A. Sobolev
1 goals
SpartakE. Ponce Martínez
E. Ponce Martínez
1 goals
UralA. Panyukov
A. Panyukov
1 goals

Spartak Moskva missing players

Ural missing players

Spartak Moskva Ural
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
3 1 0 Played P 0 1 3
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
2 1 0 Scored S 0 0 1
3 2 0 Conceded C 0 2 6
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
33% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
33% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 33%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
33% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 33%
33% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 67%
 
9 6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2 3.7
4 2 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 5.7
2.7 2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 1.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
18.7 21 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12 9.7
6.3 6 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 3.3
11% 17% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 10%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Ural have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premier League
  • Ural have the most conceded goals in the second half (5) in Premier League
  • Ural have the the worst goal difference (-5) in Premier League
Spartak Moskva Last season Ural
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
30 15   Played P   15 30
17 9   Won W   1 7
6 3   Drew D   7 13
7 3   Lost L   7 10
56 31   Scored S   12 26
37 16   Conceded C   25 36
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   87% 87%
87% 87%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   60% 57%
57% 53%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   40% 27%
37% 27%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 23%
17% 20%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   13% 7%
63% 60%   BTTS BTTS   53% 43%
20% 20%   Clean Sheets C S   13% 30%
17% 20%   Failed to Score F T   47% 40%
 
5.6 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   4.3 4.4
3.6 3.5   Corners against (avg) C A   6 5.7
3.1 3.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.5 2.9
4 2   Red cards R C   5 5
 
16.2 16.7   Shots (avg) S (   11.7 11.8
5.7 6.1   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.3 3.7
33% 34%   Goal Efficiency G E   18% 23%

  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 3 3 0 0 10 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 2 2 0 0 7 3 5 9
2 Rubin Kazan 3 3 0 0 6 1 2 2 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 5 9
3 Dinamo Moskva 3 3 0 0 7 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 0 0 5 2 4 9
4 Lokomotiv Moskva 3 2 1 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 7
5 Olimpiyets 3 2 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 7
6 Sochi 3 2 0 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 6
7 Khimki 3 1 1 1 3 4 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 -1 4
8 Krasnodar 3 1 0 2 5 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 1 5 3 1 3
9 Akhmat Grozny 3 1 0 2 4 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 -1 3
10 CSKA Moskva 3 1 0 2 3 4 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 3
11 Spartak Moskva 3 1 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 -1 3
12 Arsenal Tula 3 1 0 2 3 7 2 1 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 -4 3
13 Ufa 3 0 1 2 3 5 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 -2 1
14 Rostov 3 0 1 2 3 7 2 0 0 2 2 6 1 0 1 0 1 1 -4 1
15 Ural 3 0 1 2 1 6 2 0 1 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 -5 1
16 Krylya Sovetov 3 0 0 3 2 5 2 0 0 2 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 -3 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 19 8 3 76 26 15 13 1 1 53 13 15 6 7 2 23 13 50 65
2 Spartak Moskva 30 17 6 7 56 37 15 9 3 3 31 16 15 8 3 4 25 21 19 57
3 Lokomotiv Moskva 30 17 5 8 45 35 15 11 2 2 24 9 15 6 3 6 21 26 10 56
4 Sochi 30 15 8 7 49 33 15 10 4 1 31 12 15 5 4 6 18 21 16 53
5 Rubin Kazan 30 16 5 9 42 33 15 6 4 5 18 17 15 10 1 4 24 16 9 53
6 CSKA Moskva 30 15 5 10 51 33 15 8 4 3 31 17 15 7 1 7 20 16 18 50
7 Dinamo Moskva 30 15 5 10 44 33 15 10 2 3 27 10 15 5 3 7 17 23 11 50
8 Khimki 30 13 6 11 35 39 15 9 2 4 17 13 15 4 4 7 18 26 -4 45
9 Rostov 30 13 4 13 37 35 15 6 2 7 18 16 15 7 2 6 19 19 2 43
10 Krasnodar 30 12 5 13 52 45 15 7 4 4 34 23 15 5 1 9 18 22 7 41
11 Akhmat Grozny 30 11 7 12 36 38 15 7 4 4 23 15 15 4 3 8 13 23 -2 40
12 Ural 30 7 13 10 26 36 15 6 6 3 14 11 15 1 7 7 12 25 -10 34
13 Ufa 30 6 7 17 26 46 15 3 4 8 15 19 15 3 3 9 11 27 -20 25
14 Arsenal Tula 30 6 5 19 28 51 15 6 4 5 22 20 15 0 1 14 6 31 -23 23
15 Rotor Volgograd 30 5 7 18 15 52 15 3 2 10 5 23 15 2 5 8 10 29 -37 22
16 Tambov 30 3 4 23 19 65 15 2 2 11 11 29 15 1 2 12 8 36 -46 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.