National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Kvant or Kaluga 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 Kvant and Kaluga.
Kvant form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Russian Cup for Kvant, as the manager Morozov led his troops to eliminate Kolomna, and reach the Regions Path - 2nd Round. Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the regions path - 2nd round.Kvant drew their last game, 1-1 away at Kosmos Dolgoprudny.
Before that, Kvant drew at home versus Akademiya Tambov.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Sakhalin are coming to town in four days.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Kvant, who have participated in one training match. Kvant have won 0 of these, drawn 0 and were beaten in 1 game.
Kaluga form and stats
Kaluga was sent out of Russian Cup in the regions path - 2nd round last season.Kaluga play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Saturn Ramenskoye.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Kosmos Dolgoprudny in the FNL 2 - Group 3.A quick return to home after this game, as Kaluga are hosting Znamya Noginsk in the FNL 2 - Group 3 only four days away.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: one - three - five (Kvant wins - draws - Kaluga wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Kamenshchikov 3 goals | M. Stavtsev 3 goals | N. Sukhanov 2 goals |
Kvant missing players
Kaluga missing players
| Kvant | Kaluga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 40 | 19 | Scored | S | 14 | 39 | ||
| 41 | 12 | Conceded | C | 13 | 27 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 27% | 40% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 18% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 12% | ||
| 40% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 18% | 32% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 24% | ||
| 0.3 | 0.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0.9 | ||
| 0.2 | 0.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
