Home advantage could prove decisive in Ural - Rotor Volgograd battle

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 13.March
Match begins: 09:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ekaterinburg Arena

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premier League, Ural holding 12th place and Rotor Volgograd lying 13th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Rotor Volgograd have the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League

Ural and Rotor Volgograd 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.

Rotor Volgograd have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1700 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Ural form and stats

Ural have played 10 Premier League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-5-2 (wins-draws-losses). The trend of drawing games is also valid regardless of arena as Ural has four draws from their last four matches.

The home supporters saw a 0-0 draw versus Ufa in the Premier League last time out and are looking for a win here. Prior to that, an away loss at Ufa in the Russian Cup.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Ural handle that role? We have found one game in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are zero wins, one draw and zero defeats.

Ural aren't scoring a lot here at Ekaterinburg Arena in the league, with only 9 goals from 10 games. Ural are not conceding a lot of goals here at Ekaterinburg Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 10 matches.

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Rotor Volgograd form and stats

There's been little loot from Rotor Volgograd's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Rotor Volgograd, who have the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League, only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 4 draws.

Volgograd's last game was the home draw against Khimki (0-0). Ahead of that match was the victory versus Tambov at their stadium, the result 3-1.

Volgograd are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, two draws and zero defeats. From a total of three matches.

After this away game Volgograd return home for a Premier League game against Rostov. That game is only four sleeps after this.

The attacking power of Rotor Volgograd when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. Rotor Volgograd have conceded 17 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Rotor Volgograd - Ural 0-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Last three meetings between the teams: Ural won two, Rotor Volgograd won zero and one draw. two games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

UralE. Bicfalvi
E. Bicfalvi
5 goals
UralR. Augustyniak
R. Augustyniak
3 goals
Rotor VolgogradK. Mullin
K. Mullin
3 goals

Ural missing players

Rotor Volgograd missing players

Ural Rotor Volgograd
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 4 10 21
4 3 0 Won W 1 2 4
11 5 2 Drew D 2 4 6
6 2 0 Lost L 1 4 11
18 9 0 Scored S 5 8 12
25 9 0 Conceded C 5 17 31
81% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 80% 81%
62% 60% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 80% 62%
29% 20% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 38%
24% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 30% 19%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 10% 5%
48% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 75% 50% 33%
29% 40% 100% Clean Sheets C S 25% 20% 29%
43% 40% 100% Failed to Score F T 25% 50% 57%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3 2.9 4.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.2 3.3 3.5
3 0 0 Red cards R C 2 3 4
 
11.3 10.9 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 10 8.2 9.1
3.3 2.5 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.2 3.2
26% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 25% 19%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Rotor Volgograd have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Rotor Volgograd have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Rotor Volgograd have the fewest scored goals (12) in Premier League
  • Rotor Volgograd have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Premier League

  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 20 12 6 2 45 17 11 9 1 1 35 12 9 3 5 1 10 5 28 42
2 CSKA Moskva 21 12 4 5 37 19 11 6 3 2 23 12 10 6 1 3 14 7 18 40
3 Sochi 21 10 7 4 32 22 11 7 4 0 21 8 10 3 3 4 11 14 10 37
4 Dinamo Moskva 21 11 3 7 28 22 10 8 1 1 17 3 11 3 2 6 11 19 6 36
5 Spartak Moskva 20 10 5 5 33 23 10 5 3 2 17 10 10 5 2 3 16 13 10 35
6 Rostov 21 10 4 7 26 22 10 4 2 4 12 9 11 6 2 3 14 13 4 34
7 Krasnodar 20 9 4 7 37 21 11 7 3 1 29 10 9 2 1 6 8 11 16 31
8 Rubin Kazan 20 9 4 7 26 25 9 3 3 3 11 11 11 6 1 4 15 14 1 31
9 Lokomotiv Moskva 20 9 4 7 23 25 10 7 1 2 14 7 10 2 3 5 9 18 -2 31
10 Khimki 21 8 5 8 26 31 11 6 1 4 14 13 10 2 4 4 12 18 -5 29
11 Akhmat Grozny 21 7 5 9 20 25 11 4 3 4 13 11 10 3 2 5 7 14 -5 26
12 Ural 21 4 11 6 18 25 10 3 5 2 9 9 11 1 6 4 9 16 -7 23
13 Rotor Volgograd 21 4 6 11 12 31 11 2 2 7 4 14 10 2 4 4 8 17 -19 18
14 Arsenal Tula 20 3 5 12 17 34 9 3 4 2 12 10 11 0 1 10 5 24 -17 14
15 Ufa 21 3 5 13 15 33 9 1 3 5 8 11 12 2 2 8 7 22 -18 14
16 Tambov 21 3 4 14 14 34 11 2 2 7 7 13 10 1 2 7 7 21 -20 13

Read more about Premier League

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.