National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Torpedo Vladimir or Rodina Moskva 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.
Torpedo Vladimir form and stats
Last season their Russian Cup adventure ended in the 2nd round.With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Torpedo Vladimir to get some points in this home game.
The manager D. Vyazmikin will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Zvezda Sint Petersburg in only four days.
It's been an intense period of training leading up to this game for Vladimir, who have participated in three training matches. Torpedo Vladimir have won 0 of these, drawn 1 and were beaten in 2 games.
Rodina Moskva form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Strogino in order to reach 2nd Round of Russian Cup. They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.Impressive finishing from N. Kataev, D. Lopatin and M. Shavel secured the home win 4-3 against Dinamo Moskva II in their previous game. It was a Pfl defeat before that one as the away game against Leningradets wasn't a success with a 2-5 loss.
An amazing comeback from Rodina last time out, trailing 1-3 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to D. Lopatin scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute. A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Rodina, as mentioned above. 7 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun? Late drama in the previous game, when D. Lopatin scored the winning goal three minutes into stoppage time to defeat Dinamo Moskva II.
It's a day of discovery for Rodina Moskva as they finally learn what impact all the hours of pre-season training, along with the changes in personnel, have had on their performance in an official game. It's never easy knowing what to expect based on friendly games, of which Rodina Moskva have played one with the results W0-D1-L0 (win-draw-lost). In these games Rodina Moskva has scored 1 goal and conceded 1 time.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Chernukhin 1 goals | N. Andreev 1 goals |  N. Kataev 1 goals |
Torpedo Vladimir missing players
Rodina Moskva missing players
| Torpedo Vladimir | Rodina Moskva | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 10 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 35 | 17 | Scored | S | 15 | 40 | ||
| 36 | 13 | Conceded | C | 31 | 51 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 92% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 68% | ||
| 32% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 32% | ||
| 64% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 69% | 72% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 8% | ||
| 24% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 24% | ||
| 4.9 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.1 | ||
| 4.2 | 5.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 5.4 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 109 | 65 | Total Shots | T S | 93 | 199 | ||
| 50 | 29 | Shots on Target | S O | 45 | 97 | ||
| 40% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 33% | ||