National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Dinamo Stavropol' or Dinamo Moskva that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Premier League. That game, against Sochi, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Dinamo Moskva.
It's quite the trip for Dinamo Moskva when visiting Stavropol' as the cities are 1400 kilometers apart.
Dinamo Stavropol' form and stats
Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the group stage.3W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Russian Cup for Dinamo Stavropol'. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Stavropol' to get some points in this home game.
Dinamo Stavropol' are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Rotor-2.
Ahead of that match, Stavropol' lost 2-3 at home to Makhachkala.No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Dinamo Stavropol' had similar winning odds as today, and found one game. In these, the hosts won zero, drew zero and lost one. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Dinamo Stavropol' lost zero similar games by at least two goals.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Stavropol', as the Pfl home game vs Tuapse is only three days away.
Dinamo Moskva form and stats
Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Dinamo Moskva have produced an overall stat of 4-0-1 so far. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Dinamo, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Dinamo Moskva play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Sochi. Goalkeeper Igor Leshchuk was absolutely vital in the Dinamo Moskva victory against Sochi, making seven saves. Igor Leshchuk (goalkeeper) was the best performer with a rating of 8.22. Leshchuk stopped the opponent with seven saves and topped it up with a clean sheet.
Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Olimpiyets.Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Dinamo given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed one match with zero wins as expected, one draw and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won zero of these games by at least two goals.
After this away game Dinamo Moskva return home for a Premier League game against Rubin Kazan. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The travelling fans enjoy Dinamo's attacking play in away games, having scored 8 goals in 5 league matches away. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Fomin 4 goals | S. Szymański 3 goals |  D. Daliev 2 goals |
Dinamo Stavropol' missing players
Dinamo Moskva missing players
| Dinamo Stavropol' | Dinamo Moskva | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Won | W | 7 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 5 | 9 | ||
| 41 | 28 | Scored | S | 20 | 37 | ||
| 37 | 17 | Conceded | C | 16 | 29 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 71% | 76% | ||
| 68% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 43% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 12% | ||
| 64% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 29% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 43% | 36% | ||
| 16% | 7% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 5.1 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.1 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.1 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.6 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.3 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8.8 | 9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.6 | 16.8 | ||
| 3.2 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||
| 36% | 45% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 29% | ||
| 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 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 17 |
| 2 | Dinamo Moskva | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 4 | Sochi | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | Rubin Kazan | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 6 | Krasnodar | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | Olimpiyets | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | CSKA Moskva | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | Spartak Moskva | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 10 | Krylya Sovetov | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 11 | Akhmat Grozny | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 9 |
| 12 | Ufa | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 8 |
| 13 | Arsenal Tula | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 8 |
| 14 | Rostov | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -7 | 6 |
| 15 | Khimki | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 6 |
| 16 | Ural | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | -11 | 2 |