Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Druzhba & SKA Rostov face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Russian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
SKA Rostov have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1400 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
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 SKA Rostov.
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 Kuban Kholding, and reach the Regions Path - 3rd Round. Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the regions path - 2nd round.Druzhba are returning here after visiting Rubin Yalta and winning with a 1-0 scoreline. Antonenko scored the goal(s).
Ahead of that match, Druzhba lost 0-4 at home to Biolog.There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Druzhba, as the Pfl home game vs SKA Rostov is only four days away.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Druzhba, who have participated in one training match. Druzhba have won 0 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 0 games.
SKA Rostov form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Chayka in order to reach regions path - 3rd round of Russian Cup. Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the regions path - 3rd round.Home advantage was not enough for SKA Rostov in their previous game as they lost hosting Kuban Kholding, 0-1.
Preceding that game was the away Pfl victory against Biolog with the score of 1-0.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Pfl trip to Druzhba.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Druzhba victories, zero draws and seven SKA Rostov wins. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Solomatin 3 goals |   D. Antonenko 2 goals | A. Delok 2 goals |
Druzhba missing players
SKA Rostov missing players
| Druzhba | SKA Rostov | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 26 | 12 | Scored | S | 11 | 27 | ||
| 33 | 15 | Conceded | C | 21 | 31 | ||
| 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 56% | 70% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 36% | ||
| 28% | 30% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 55% | 32% | ||
| 12% | 10% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 4% | ||
| 36% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 40% | ||
| 48% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 32% | ||
| 28% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 36% | ||
| 1.8 | 2.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.4 | 3.4 | ||
| 1.8 | 2.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 5.1 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.3 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 0.9 | 1.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1 | 1.6 | ||
| 0.8 | 1.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.7 | 1.3 | ||
| 125% | 110% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 138% | 80% | ||
| 1.4 | 1.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 1.2 | 1.3 | ||
| 1 | 0.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.4 | ||
