Professional Football League news and preview: Navbahor modest favourite to top Bunyodkor

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Fri 06.May
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Markaziy Stadion (33000 seats)

Navbahor have outdone Bunyodkor this season, but every match begins at 0-0. Here's all the intelligence you need before kickoff:

Insights:
  • Navbahor have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Bunyodkor have the most conceded goals in the first half (5) in Professional Football League

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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Navbahor form and stats

Navbahor have collected 4 points from their Professional Football League home games so far after 1-1-1.

Navbahor are returning here after visiting Qizilqum and winning with a 2-1 scoreline. Ashurmatov and Akhmedov scored the goal(s). A late climax in the match against Qizilqum as the winning goal came two minutes into overtime; scored by Ashurmatov.

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

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

Navbahor are not conceding a lot of goals here at Markaziy Stadion in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 3 matches.

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Bunyodkor form and stats

Bunyodkor are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Professional Football League, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).

Bunyodkor's previous game was their home loss versus FK Olympic (1-5). Bunyodkor 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.

Prior to that result Bunyodkor won their away game at Neftchi. The scoreline was 3-1.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Metalourg in just four days.

Bunyodkor have the goal stats of 4-4 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - one - six (Navbahor wins - draws - Bunyodkor wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

NavbahorZ. Marušić
Z. Marušić
3 goals
BunyodkorI. Tomiwa Gbadamosi
I. Tomiwa Gbadamosi
3 goals
NavbahorE. Grigalashvili
E. Grigalashvili
2 goals

Navbahor missing players

Bunyodkor missing players

Navbahor Bunyodkor
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 2 6
3 1 0 Won W 0 1 3
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
2 1 0 Lost L 1 1 2
7 3 0 Scored S 1 4 9
5 2 0 Conceded C 3 4 11
83% 67% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 83%
67% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
50% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 83%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 100% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 17%
50% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 83%
33% 67% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 17%
33% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 17%
 
4.3 6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 3 2 4.3
4.3 4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5 4.2
2.7 2.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3.5 2.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.8 13.7 13 Shots (avg) S ( 10 9 9
5 6.7 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.5 4
23% 15% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 44% 38%
 
9.2 8.3 13 Shots against (avg) S A 12 12 10
3 2.7 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8 7 5.5
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • All of Bunyodkor's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • Bunyodkor have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Bunyodkor have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Bunyodkor have the most conceded goals in the first half (5) in Professional Football League
  • Bunyodkor have the most points from losing position (6) in Professional Football League
  • Bunyodkor have the most scored goals in the second half (8) in Professional Football League
  • Bunyodkor have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Navbahor have won significantly more corners at home than 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 Sogdiana 6 4 2 0 8 3 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 2 1 0 4 2 5 14
2 Qizilqum 6 4 1 1 10 3 4 3 0 1 9 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 7 13
3 Pakhtakor 5 3 2 0 5 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 11
4 Navbahor 6 3 1 2 7 5 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 2 0 1 4 3 2 10
5 Bunyodkor 6 3 1 2 9 11 4 2 1 1 5 7 2 1 0 1 4 4 -2 10
6 Lokomotiv 7 3 0 4 7 9 3 2 0 1 4 2 4 1 0 3 3 7 -2 9
7 Nasaf 4 2 2 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 2 0 2 8
8 FK Olympic 7 1 4 2 8 6 4 0 3 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 6 3 2 7
9 AMGK 5 2 1 2 6 4 1 1 0 0 3 0 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 7
10 Dinamo Samarqand 7 1 3 3 6 8 4 1 2 1 4 4 3 0 1 2 2 4 -2 6
11 Kokand-1912 6 2 0 4 2 7 3 2 0 1 2 1 3 0 0 3 0 6 -5 6
12 Metalourg 5 1 2 2 2 4 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 1 4 -2 5
13 Neftchi 7 1 1 5 4 11 4 1 0 3 3 6 3 0 1 2 1 5 -7 4
14 Surkhon 5 0 2 3 2 6 2 0 0 2 2 4 3 0 2 1 0 2 -4 2

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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.