Professional Football League prediction and preview: Mash'al modest favorites to beat Surkhon

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Sun 27.September
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion im. Bahrom Vafoyev (11000 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the Professional Football League, with both Mash'al and Surkhon experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the home team placed 10th and the visitors in 12th place.

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.

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Mash'al form and stats

2 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Mash'al have to build on here at Stadion im. Bahrom Vafoyev in the Professional Football League. Mash'al has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager D. Vaniyev and the players. Mash'al are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Stadion im. Bahrom Vafoyev, having lost their two previous games here.

Mash'al haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 240 minutes ago. S. Kuziyev scored that one.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Qizilqum (0-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Mash'al handle that role? We have found three games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are one win, two draws and zero defeats.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Mash'al here at Stadion im. Bahrom Vafoyev in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 7 games). Mash'al are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadion im. Bahrom Vafoyev in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.

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Surkhon form and stats

There's been little loot from Surkhon's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 11 away games in the Professional Football League. Surkhon, who have the most conceded goals (20) away in Professional Football League, only have 3 wins to counter their 8 defeats and 0 draws.

Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Nasaf's place.

Surkhon are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of three matches.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Surkhon as they have only managed to score 7 times from 11 away games in the league. Surkhon struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 20 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Mash'al - Surkhon 0-1 played earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Mash'al zero wins, one draw and Surkhon one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Mash'al missing players

Surkhon missing players

Mash'al Surkhon
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 7 3 Played P 3 11 17
5 2 1 Won W 2 3 3
4 3 2 Drew D 0 0 3
8 2 0 Lost L 1 8 11
12 6 2 Scored S 3 7 13
16 4 1 Conceded C 2 20 30
88% 71% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
41% 43% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 64% 71%
29% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 59%
6% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 18% 24%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 6%
24% 29% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 36% 53%
41% 57% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 18% 18%
47% 43% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 45% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.4 0.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.1 2.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
130 56 32 Total Shots T S 24 63 118
49 18 14 Shots on Target S O 7 24 44
18% 17% 14% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 29% 30%
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • Surkhon has the most conceded goals (20) away in Professional Football League
  • Surkhon have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Surkhon haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Pakhtakor 16 13 2 1 48 9 9 8 1 0 33 6 7 5 1 1 15 3 39 41
2 AMGK 17 10 6 1 28 16 10 7 3 0 16 7 7 3 3 1 12 9 12 36
3 Nasaf 17 9 6 2 33 15 8 5 3 0 19 5 9 4 3 2 14 10 18 33
4 Kokand-1912 17 9 2 6 27 20 10 7 1 2 21 10 7 2 1 4 6 10 7 29
5 Metalourg 17 9 2 6 25 21 8 4 1 3 10 11 9 5 1 3 15 10 4 29
6 Bunyodkor 17 8 5 4 26 23 8 6 1 1 14 6 9 2 4 3 12 17 3 29
7 Navbahor 17 5 7 5 17 14 9 4 3 2 8 3 8 1 4 3 9 11 3 22
8 Lokomotiv 17 7 1 9 20 31 10 5 0 5 13 14 7 2 1 4 7 17 -11 22
9 Sogdiana 16 5 5 6 19 22 8 4 3 1 14 7 8 1 2 5 5 15 -3 20
10 Mash'al 17 5 4 8 12 16 7 2 3 2 6 4 10 3 1 6 6 12 -4 19
11 Qizilqum 17 3 5 9 11 27 8 2 2 4 6 10 9 1 3 5 5 17 -16 14
12 Surkhon 17 3 3 11 13 30 6 0 3 3 6 10 11 3 0 8 7 20 -17 12
13 Andijan 17 1 7 9 10 21 9 1 2 6 3 11 8 0 5 3 7 10 -11 10
14 Buxoro 17 1 5 11 12 36 8 1 4 3 10 18 9 0 1 8 2 18 -24 8

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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.