National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Chayka or Tekstilshchik that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Chayka's stadium has a grass surface. Tekstilshchik have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Tekstilshchik when playing on grass; 5 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses from 17 matches. They have scored 19 goals in these games and conceded 22.
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.
Chayka form and stats
Chayka participated in Russian Cup the last season, where they reached the 16th finals.Chayka have played three FNL home games so far, perhaps enough to set expectations for the season. In that case, only 3 points from these matches could be a signal of rough times ahead.
Chayka's previous game was a FNL match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Volgar Astrakhan. The home side are looking to build on that result. Before that game, the home loss against Krylya Sovetov with the scoreline 0-3.
Manager M. Adiev felt very clever after A. Khokhlachev scored the winning goal against Volgar Astrakhan, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 87th minute. A late climax in the match against Volgar Astrakhan as the winning goal came one minutes into overtime; scored by A. Khokhlachev.
Chayka aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 2 goals from 3 games. Chayka have conceded 7 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Tekstilshchik form and stats
They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the 4th round.0-1-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Tekstilshchik in their FNL matches away. With three draws in a row for Tekstilshchik the feeling in the team is perhaps one of both relief and disappointment.
Tekstilshchik played 2-2 against Yenisey in their previous match. Before that, Tekstilshchik travelled to Orenburg and returned home with a draw after the FNL game finished 1-1.
It looked so good for Tekstilshchik vs Yenisey, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Tekstilshchik has managed 1 goal and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Chayka-Tekstilshchik H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Chayka one win, Tekstilshchik zero wins, one draw. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  K. Appaev 3 goals |   V. Khozin 1 goals | V. Aleynikov 1 goals |
Chayka missing players
Tekstilshchik missing players
| Chayka | Tekstilshchik | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 8 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 33 | 19 | Scored | S | 7 | 22 | ||
| 39 | 19 | Conceded | C | 17 | 31 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 58% | 60% | ||
| 60% | 47% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 13% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 12% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 68% | 53% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 40% | ||
| 16% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 58% | 48% | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.6 | 3.4 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2.4 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | ||
| 141 | 78 | Total Shots | T S | 48 | 139 | ||
| 52 | 29 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 51 | ||
| 52% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 27% | ||
| 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 II | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | Orenburg | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| 3 | Baltika | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | Veles | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | Neftekhimik | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Yenisey | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 7 | Dinamo Bryansk | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| 8 | SKA Khabarovsk | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 9 | Krylya Sovetov | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 10 | Tekstilshchik | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 11 | Olimpiyets | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 12 | Akron | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Torpedo Moskva | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 14 | Chertanovo | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 15 | Chayka | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 5 |
| 16 | Spartak Vladikavkaz | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 4 |
| 17 | Fakel | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 4 |
| 18 | Shinnik | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 4 |
| 19 | Krasnodar II | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -5 | 4 |
| 20 | Volgar Astrakhan | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 3 |
| 21 | Tom' Tomsk | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 1 |
| 22 | Irtysh | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -9 | 1 |