Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Ural & Rostov face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Russian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Rostov, who are travelling more than 1500 kilometers to play this game.
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 Ural and Rostov.
Ural form and stats
Ural participated in Russian Cup the last season, where they reached the premier league path - final.Only two Premier League home games for Ural so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ilya Pomazun not having conceded a league goal in 208 minutes.
Ural enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Orenburg's place. The match ended 2-0 with Egorychev and Kashtanov scoring. Midfield player Egorychev got a match rating of 8.25 in that game, the max score being 10. Egorychev scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 25 successful passes (of 29 total).
Before that, Ural drew at home versus FK Nizjni Novgorod.Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Spartak Moskva are coming to town in three days.
At Ekaterinburg Arena, Ural has the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.
Rostov form and stats
They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the regions path - semi-finals - 1st round.The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.
Rostov play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-5 to Krylya Sovetov. Rostov lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one. Ionov, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.35. Ionov dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A draw for Rostov before that, at their own venue hosting Zenit (1-1).A quick return to home after this game, as Rostov are hosting Rubin Kazan' in the Premier League only four days away.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Rostov has managed {1 goals} and let in 5 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the prior ten meetings involving these two participants are: four wins for Ural, four draws and two wins for Rostov. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Komlichenko 2 goals |  A. Egorychev 1 goals |  D. Miškić 1 goals |
Ural missing players
Rostov missing players
| Ural | Rostov | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Won | W | 3 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 9 | 4 | Lost | L | 6 | 8 | ||
| 29 | 15 | Scored | S | 12 | 37 | ||
| 29 | 12 | Conceded | C | 21 | 36 | ||
| 92% | 91% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 80% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 52% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 8% | 9% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 32% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 20% | ||
| 56% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 18% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 4.2 | 5.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.9 | 3.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.4 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 8.4 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 8.2 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.4 | ||
| 45% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 44% | ||
| 9.3 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.1 | 9.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Rostov | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Ural | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 4 | Rubin Kazan' | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Spartak Moskva | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | Krasnodar | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | Krylya Sovetov | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 4 | Ural | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | CSKA Moskva | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Zenit | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Rostov | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | Sochi | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan' | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 2 |
| 11 | Dinamo Moskva | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 12 | Orenburg | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 13 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 14 | Akhmat Grozny | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Baltika | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Fakel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
