Betting preview: Lokomotiv faced with a tough challenge when Pakhtakor visits

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Mon 23.May
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Lokomotiv (8200 seats)

Moving closer to the top sides is the subject when these two mid-table sides battle it out. Both are trying to strenghten their league table standing, Lokomotiv in 7th and Pakhtakor in 5th spot.

Insights:
  • Lokomotiv haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Pakhtakor have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Professional Football League

These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Lokomotiv form and stats

2 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Lokomotiv have to build on here at Stadion Lokomotiv in the Professional Football League.

Happy days for Lokomotiv in their previous game, a fixture away at FK Olympic (placed 12th) that ended with a 3-0 victory.

Before that game, the home loss against Kokand-1912 with the scoreline 1-2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Lokomotiv as they are travelling to their away game against Navbahor in the Professional Football League. That match is four days after this one.

Lokomotiv has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches.

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Pakhtakor form and stats

1 win, 3 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Pakhtakor playing as the away team in the Professional Football League this season. Pakhtakor has showed their ability to avoid defeat with four draws in a row, but are also dodging victories. They last avoided the draw 52 days ago, in the Navbahor fixture.

Pakhtakor are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Kokand-1912 (placed 10th). The draw against Kokand-1912 came from a losing position. The Pakhtakor manager Vojneski brought on Ćeran as a substitute and the player scored to make the scores level.

A draw for Pakhtakor before that, at their own venue hosting Surkhon (2-2).

Pakhtakor are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lokomotiv two wins, two draws and Pakhtakor six victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

PakhtakorD. Ćeran
D. Ćeran
4 goals
LokomotivJ. Mpasko Etame
J. Mpasko Etame
3 goals
LokomotivD. Turopov
D. Turopov
2 goals

Lokomotiv missing players

Pakhtakor missing players

Lokomotiv Pakhtakor
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 0 Played P 0 4 8
4 2 0 Won W 0 1 3
0 0 0 Drew D 0 3 5
5 2 0 Lost L 0 0 0
11 5 0 Scored S 0 4 8
11 4 0 Conceded C 0 2 4
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 75% 75%
78% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 50%
56% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 12%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
44% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 38%
33% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 62%
22% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 25%
 
3.7 3.5 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6.2 5.2
2.8 2.5 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4.2 3
1.4 1.2 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.2 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
10.4 9 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.8 11.4
4.3 3.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.8 4.9
28% 38% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 21% 21%
 
8.9 5.5 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8.8 6.6
3.6 2.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3.5 2.9
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • Lokomotiv haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Pakhtakor have not yet lost a game.
  • Pakhtakor have the most matches under the total-line (5) in Professional Football League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sogdiana 9 5 2 2 15 10 4 2 1 1 5 3 5 3 1 1 10 7 5 17
2 Navbahor 9 5 2 2 10 6 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 3 0 1 5 3 4 17
3 Nasaf 7 4 3 0 10 2 3 1 2 0 6 1 4 3 1 0 4 1 8 15
4 AMGK 8 4 2 2 13 7 3 2 1 0 6 2 5 2 1 2 7 5 6 14
5 Pakhtakor 8 3 5 0 8 4 4 2 2 0 4 2 4 1 3 0 4 2 4 14
6 Qizilqum 9 4 2 3 12 13 5 3 0 2 10 7 4 1 2 1 2 6 -1 14
7 Lokomotiv 9 4 0 5 11 11 4 2 0 2 5 4 5 2 0 3 6 7 0 12
8 Bunyodkor 9 3 3 3 11 14 5 2 2 1 6 8 4 1 1 2 5 6 -3 12
9 Metalourg 9 2 4 3 6 10 4 2 2 0 4 2 5 0 2 3 2 8 -4 10
10 Kokand-1912 9 3 1 5 5 10 4 2 1 1 3 2 5 1 0 4 2 8 -5 10
11 Neftchi 10 2 3 5 7 11 6 2 1 3 6 6 4 0 2 2 1 5 -4 9
12 FK Olympic 9 1 5 3 8 9 5 0 3 2 2 6 4 1 2 1 6 3 -1 8
13 Dinamo Samarqand 9 1 3 5 7 11 5 1 2 2 4 5 4 0 1 3 3 6 -4 6
14 Surkhon 8 1 3 4 7 12 4 1 0 3 5 8 4 0 3 1 2 4 -5 6

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The Uzbekistan Super League is the highest level of football in Uzbekistan and was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The season generally runs from March to November and has 14 teams playing 26 fixtures to decide the champion of the league table.