Metalourg will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 16 points behind Pakhtakor.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Professional Football League. That game, against Buxoro, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Pakhtakor.
Metalourg form and stats
3 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Metalourg have to build on here at Metallurg Markaziy Stadion in the Professional Football League.
The Metalourg supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Mash'al in Professional Football League and win 2-1. In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Surkhon.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Metalourg, as the Professional Football League home game vs AMGK is only four days away.
The Metalourg fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 5 matches. Metalourg's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 6 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Pakhtakor form and stats
Pakhtakor's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Pakhtakor, who have the most scored goals (45) in Professional Football League, collect 13 points from their 6 away matches in the Professional Football League. 4 victories and 1 draw have created these points (and only 1 defeat). Things are running smoothly for Pakhtakor who hasn't tasted defeat in their last eleven matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Sogdiana.
Two travels in a row for Pakhtakor, whose manager S. Arveladze could celebrate last time after the Professional Football League win against Buxoro. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Navbahor that ended 1-1.
As mentioned above, Pakhtakor was the only team on the pitch versus Buxoro in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
The Pakhtakor manager S. Arveladze has got the team scoring on the road, with 12 away goals in 6 league matches. Pakhtakor are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 3 away goals have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Pakhtakor - Metalourg 4-1. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: one - zero - nine (Metalourg wins - draws - Pakhtakor wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Ćeran 14 goals | I. Sergeev 12 goals |  E. Derdiyok 7 goals |
Metalourg missing players
Pakhtakor missing players
| Metalourg | Pakhtakor | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 5 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 12 | 45 |
| 16 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 85% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 83% | 93% |
| 54% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 73% |
| 23% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 53% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 27% |
| 54% | 60% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 33% | 47% |
| 31% | 40% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 47% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 7% |
| 3.9 | 4.2 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 7.4 | 6.6 |
| 3.2 | 4.4 | 10 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3 | 2.9 |
| 1.9 | 1.6 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 91 | 40 | 7 | Total Shots | T S | 17 | 55 | 207 |
| 38 | 15 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 18 | 99 |
| 53% | 47% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 56% | 43% |
- Metalourg has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0)
- Metalourg have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Metalourg have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Metalourg haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals (3) away
- Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals (9)
- Pakhtakor has the most clean sheets (3) away
- Pakhtakor has the most clean sheets (7)
- Pakhtakor has the most matches over the total-line (11)
- Pakhtakor has the most scored goals (45)
- Pakhtakor has the most scored goals in the first half (21)
- Pakhtakor has the most scored goals in the second half (24)
- Pakhtakor has the the best goal difference (+36)
- Pakhtakor has the the best goal difference (+9) away
- Pakhtakor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Pakhtakor have scored more than double the goals of Metalourg.
- Pakhtakor have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Pakhtakor haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Pakhtakor is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Pakhtakor | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 45 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 36 | 38 |
| 2 | AMGK | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 29 |
| 3 | Kokand-1912 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 25 |
| 4 | Nasaf | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| 5 | Bunyodkor | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Metalourg | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 7 | Navbahor | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 20 |
| 8 | Mash'al | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 16 |
| 9 | Sogdiana | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 14 | -5 | 16 |
| 10 | Lokomotiv | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 14 | -15 | 12 |
| 11 | Qizilqum | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -12 | 10 |
| 12 | Surkhon | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -12 | 8 |
| 13 | Buxoro | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16 | -21 | 7 |
| 14 | Andijan | 13 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -10 | 6 |