Match preview Premier League: Ufa - Arsenal Tula at Stadion Neftyanik

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 16.May
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Neftyanik (15234 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the Premier League, with both Ufa and Arsenal Tula experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 14th and the visitors in 13th place.

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

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.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1400 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

Relegation threatens Ufa who should definitely be looking for some points here. Arsenal are struggling to avoid relegation.

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Ufa form and stats

Ufa's struggle is real here at Stadion Neftyanik with only 10 points collected from 14 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-4-8.

1-1 away at CSKA Moskva before that.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Ufa have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found ten matches with the results: Won two, drawn three and lost five.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Ufa here at Stadion Neftyanik in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (13 from 14 games). On the other hand, Ufa have conceded 18 goals.

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Arsenal Tula form and stats

Arsenal Tula, who have the fewest points (1) away in Premier League, have only collected 1 point from their away games in the Premier League, after 0-1-13 (14 played). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 14 away games in a row. Three has not been a lucky number for Arsenal as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Tambov match.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-2 defeat against Spartak Moskva.

Leading 2-0 was not enough for Arsenal in their fight with Rubin Kazan' last time out. Happy faces soon turned sour as mistakes flourished in what ended up a 2-4 loss. As you can tell from the result, the match against Rubin Kazan' was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 15 similar matches played by Arsenal Tula in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Arsenal, four draws and six defeats.

Arsenal Tula are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 5 goals from 14 away games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Arsenal manager D. Parfenov has some worries about the defense as 29 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Ufa and Arsenal Tula have met before this season: Arsenal Tula - Ufa 2-3. Ufa-Arsenal Tula H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Ufa four wins, Arsenal Tula four wins, two draws. three of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

UfaT. Zhamaletdinov
T. Zhamaletdinov
4 goals
UfaV. Kamilov
V. Kamilov
4 goals
UfaF. Mrzljak
F. Mrzljak
4 goals

Ufa missing players

Arsenal Tula missing players

Ufa Arsenal Tula
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 14 4 Played P 4 14 29
5 2 1 Won W 0 0 6
7 4 1 Drew D 1 1 5
17 8 2 Lost L 3 13 18
24 13 5 Scored S 1 5 27
45 18 5 Conceded C 6 29 49
90% 86% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
66% 64% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 64% 69%
48% 50% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 36% 45%
21% 14% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 29% 31%
10% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 17%
34% 36% 25% BTTS BTTS 25% 36% 45%
24% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 21%
52% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 75% 64% 41%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3 3.1 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.8 3.4 3.5
4 2 0 Red cards R C 0 2 7
 
9.3 10.7 11.2 Shots (avg) S ( 12.8 11.6 12.4
3.1 3.7 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.2 3.6
26% 25% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 6% 11% 26%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Arsenal Tula have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Arsenal Tula have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Arsenal Tula have the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Premier League
  • Arsenal Tula have the fewest points (1) away in Premier League
  • Arsenal Tula have the fewest scored goals (5) away in Premier League
  • Arsenal Tula have the most dropped points from leading position (16) in Premier League
  • Arsenal Tula have yet to win a game away.
  • Arsenal Tula haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Ufa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ufa have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Arsenal Tula have scored 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 29 18 8 3 71 25 15 13 1 1 53 13 14 5 7 2 18 12 46 62
2 Spartak Moskva 28 16 5 7 52 34 14 8 3 3 29 15 14 8 2 4 23 19 18 53
3 Lokomotiv Moskva 29 16 5 8 44 35 14 10 2 2 23 9 15 6 3 6 21 26 9 53
4 Sochi 29 15 7 7 49 33 15 10 4 1 31 12 14 5 3 6 18 21 16 52
5 Rubin Kazan' 29 16 4 9 41 32 14 6 3 5 17 16 15 10 1 4 24 16 9 52
6 CSKA Moskva 29 15 5 9 49 30 15 8 4 3 31 17 14 7 1 6 18 13 19 50
7 Dinamo Moskva 29 14 5 10 41 31 14 9 2 3 24 8 15 5 3 7 17 23 10 47
8 Khimki 28 13 5 10 34 37 14 9 1 4 17 13 14 4 4 6 17 24 -3 44
9 Rostov 28 13 4 11 36 31 14 6 2 6 17 13 14 7 2 5 19 18 5 43
10 Akhmat Grozny 29 11 6 12 34 36 14 7 3 4 21 13 15 4 3 8 13 23 -2 39
11 Krasnodar 29 11 5 13 49 44 15 7 4 4 34 23 14 4 1 9 15 21 5 38
12 Ural 28 6 13 9 25 35 14 5 6 3 13 11 14 1 7 6 12 24 -10 31
13 Arsenal Tula 29 6 5 18 27 49 15 6 4 5 22 20 14 0 1 13 5 29 -22 23
14 Ufa 29 5 7 17 24 45 14 2 4 8 13 18 15 3 3 9 11 27 -21 22
15 Rotor Volgograd 29 5 6 18 14 51 15 3 2 10 5 23 14 2 4 8 9 28 -37 21
16 Tambov 29 3 4 22 18 60 14 2 2 10 10 24 15 1 2 12 8 36 -42 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.