Ural, who have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premier League, challenge FK Nizjni Novgorod for acclaim and triumph.
- Ural have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premier League
- FK Nizjni Novgorod have yet to win a game.
These teams have little in common geographically as FK Nizjni Novgorod have to travel 1300 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Ural and FK Nizjni Novgorod should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Ural form and stats
Ural have played 2 Premier League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-0-2 (wins-draws-losses). Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Ural, their manager Shalimov and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
Stress levels are on the rise for Ural's attacking players as they have now played 180 minutes without scoring in a league game. Kashtanov was their last goal scorer.
An away draw last time out for Ural, facing Fakel in a game that ended 0-0. Pomazun, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.72 out of 10 in that game. Pomazun topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that match, Ural lost 0-2 at home to Spartak Moskva.It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Ural at home in the league. 1 on target and 5 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
FK Nizjni Novgorod form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Premier League for FK Nizjni Novgorod with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts. FK Nizjni Novgorod has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Home advantage was not enough for Novgorod in their previous game as they lost hosting Rostov, 3-4. A stark raving crazy match with masses of goals last time out for FK Nizjni Novgorod, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that match, will this fixture be as exciting? Kalinskiy got a match rating of 8.45 in that game, top player of the team. Kalinskiy scored one goal and hit three key passes.
Prior to that match, the FK Nizjni Novgorod manager Galaktionov faced defeat when travelling to Sochi and losing 1-2.Novgorod are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 0 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.
The attacking power of FK Nizjni Novgorod when travelling is not overwhelming with 2 goals scored from 3 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
Last eight meetings featuring these sides: Ural won three, FK Nizjni Novgorod were winners in two and we saw three draws. two games with more than 2,5 goals, six matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Suleymanov 3 goals |  A. Kashtanov 1 goals | I. Yoldoshev 1 goals |
Ural missing players
FK Nizjni Novgorod missing players
| Ural | FK Nizjni Novgorod | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 80% |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 20% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 80% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 80% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 20% |
| 6 | 6.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 5.6 | 4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 15 | 9 | 6.8 |
| 3.6 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 12.8 | 15.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 2 | 6 | 10.8 |
| 3.6 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.7 | 3 |
| 6% | 8% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 40% | 47% |
| 21.2 | 17 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 30 | 24.7 | 19.2 |
| 6.8 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 7.7 | 6 |
- All of FK Nizjni Novgorod's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Ural's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- FK Nizjni Novgorod have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- FK Nizjni Novgorod have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- FK Nizjni Novgorod have scored more than double the goals of Ural.
- FK Nizjni Novgorod have yet to win a game.
- FK Nizjni Novgorod haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Ural have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ural have created more than twice as many corners as FK Nizjni Novgorod.
- Ural have lost all their home matches so far.
- Ural have the fewest scored goals (1) in Premier League
| Ural | Last season | FK Nizjni Novgorod | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Drew | D | 6 | 9 | ||
| 13 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 13 | ||
| 27 | 11 | Scored | S | 14 | 26 | ||
| 35 | 14 | Conceded | C | 20 | 39 | ||
| 87% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 83% | ||
| 57% | 53% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 60% | ||
| 37% | 27% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 43% | ||
| 20% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 17% | ||
| 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 10% | ||
| 40% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 53% | ||
| 27% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 30% | ||
| 47% | 53% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | ||
| 4.1 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.9 | 3.6 | ||
| 5.7 | 5.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 5 | ||
| 10.7 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 8.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 2.9 | ||
| 24% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 30% | ||
| 15.6 | 14.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.6 | 14 | ||
| 4.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Spartak Moskva | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2 | Zenit | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 11 |
| 3 | Rostov | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 11 |
| 4 | CSKA Moskva | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| 5 | Dinamo Moskva | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 6 | Sochi | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 7 | Krasnodar | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 8 | Akhmat Grozny | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Khimki | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Orenburg | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 6 |
| 11 | Krylya Sovetov | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 12 | Fakel | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 3 |
| 13 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | -8 | 3 |
| 14 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 2 |
| 15 | Torpedo Moskva | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 1 |
| 16 | Ural | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -9 | 1 |
