National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Druzhba or Kuban Kholding that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Druzhba and Kuban Kholding.
Druzhba form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Russian Cup for Druzhba, as the manager Adzhindzhal led his troops to eliminate Pioner, and reach the Regions Path - 2nd Round. Druzhba was eliminated in the regions path - 2nd round last season in the Russian Cup.The Druzhba coach Adzhindzhal and his pawns return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Sevastopol.
Previous to that game, a Pfl home match hosting Dinamo Stavropol' in a game that was won 1-0.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Druzhba, as the Pfl home game vs Biolog is only four days away.
Druzhba have spent many days and weeks preparing for this match, with countless hours on the training pitches and one practice match played. These training games have ended with 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Some might be interested in the goal production stats for these matches; Druzhba scored {2 goals-1} and let in {2 goals-2} during these one game.
Kuban Kholding form and stats
They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the regions path - 4th round.It's the second away game in a row for Kholding, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Biolog last time out.
That result followed a home victory 7-0 versus Sevastopol in the Pfl.Head 2 Head
Kuban Kholding have managed a streak of 7 consecutive matches without defeat (4-3-0) when facing Druzhba.Top Goalscorers
  M. Kolomiytsev 4 goals |  S. Lysenko 3 goals |  A. Delok 2 goals |
Druzhba missing players
Kuban Kholding missing players
| Druzhba | Kuban Kholding | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 6 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 9 | 3 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 24 | 10 | Scored | S | 22 | 42 | ||
| 32 | 11 | Conceded | C | 11 | 23 | ||
| 84% | 89% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 84% | ||
| 52% | 56% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 64% | ||
| 44% | 56% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 12% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 20% | ||
| 40% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 28% | ||
| 44% | 44% | Clean Sheets | C S | 54% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 22% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 36% | ||
| 1.6 | 2.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.2 | ||
| 2 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.4 | 2.3 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.6 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0.9 | 1.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1 | 1.4 | ||
| 0.7 | 0.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.7 | 1.1 | ||
| 147% | 150% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 300% | 200% | ||
| 1.5 | 1.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 1.8 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1.1 | 1.2 | ||
