National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Volga Ulyanovsk or Ufa that keep their silverware dream alive.
Volga Ulyanovsk's stadium, Stadion Trud, has a artifical turf surface. Ufa have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Ufa when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 2 draws and 4 losses from seven matches. They have scored {6 goals} in these games and conceded 9.
It's no vacation for neither Volga Ulyanovsk nor Ufa as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Volga Ulyanovsk form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Russian Cup for Ulyanovsk, as the manager Babayan led his troops to eliminate Universitet Ulyanovsk, and reach the Regions Path - 3rd Round. Volga Ulyanovsk participated in Russian Cup the last season, where they reached the regions path - quarter-finals - 1st round.A good away victory last time out for Volga Ulyanovsk, who won 2-1 against Krasnodar II.
Before that, Ulyanovsk had a Second League A home game versus Irtysh which ended with a victory 2-1.Volga Ulyanovsk are traveling soon after this match as the Second League A match at Dinamo Bryansk awaits in four days.
Ufa form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Nosta in order to reach regions path - 3rd round of Russian Cup. Ufa was sent out of Russian Cup in the regions path - quarter-finals - 1st round last season.Ufa are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the game against Spartak Kostroma.
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Dinamo Bryansk's place.The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Second League A trip to Murom.
Head 2 Head
Stats for the last three meetings featuring these two squads are: two wins for Volga Ulyanovsk, zero draws and one win for Ufa. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Dibirgadzhiev 2 goals |  R. Makhmutov 2 goals |  C. Magomadov 1 goals |
Volga Ulyanovsk missing players
Ufa missing players
| Volga Ulyanovsk | Ufa | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 0 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 9 | 13 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Scored | S | 6 | 29 | ||
| 25 | 15 | Conceded | C | 16 | 28 | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 92% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 55% | 64% | ||
| 40% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 8% | ||
| 32% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 32% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 55% | 32% | ||
| 1 | 0.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.7 | 3.3 | ||
| 1.8 | 0.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.8 | 2.3 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 1.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1.9 | 1.9 | ||
| 0.3 | 0.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.6 | 0.7 | ||
| 357% | 300% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 86% | 161% | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0.9 | 1.2 | ||
| 1 | 0.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 0.6 | ||
