Pakhtakor expected to challenge Neftchi at their own home

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Fri 12.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: O'zbekiston Stadioni (5000 seats)

Neftchi ended up with a 3-3 scoreline facing Kokand-1912 last week, a game to learn from. The next assignment is this bright Pakhtakor team.

Insights:
  • Pakhtakor have the most clean sheets (8) in Professional Football League

Both contenders have had plenty of rest since their last competitive action. Let's agree to expect an energetic fixture!

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Neftchi form and stats

2 victories, 2 draws and 3 defeats. That’s what Neftchi have to build on here at O'zbekiston Stadioni in the Professional Football League. With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for Neftchi.

Neftchi shared the glory with Kokand-1912 in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3. A goal frenzy last time out for Neftchi, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Kokand-1912. Fun stuff to watch! Abdullajonov was able to secure the draw 3-3 in the game against Kokand-1912 after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?

Preceding that game was the away draw at Termez Surkhon that finished 1-1.

Neftchi has scored 7 goals so far and conceded 7 goals from 7 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Pakhtakor form and stats

Pakhtakor's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Pakhtakor collect 16 points from their 8 away matches in the Professional Football League. 4 victories and 4 draws have created these points (and only 0 defeats).

It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Sogdiana (placed 2nd) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 2-2. It looked so good for Pakhtakor vs Sogdiana, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw.

That result followed a home victory 3-2 versus Dinamo Samarqand.

Pakhtakor has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 12 goals from 8 games. Pakhtakor are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Pakhtakor have managed a sequence of 5 consecutive matches without defeat (3-2-0) when facing Neftchi.

Pakhtakor - Neftchi 1-0 was the story when these sides previously did battle, some time ago this season.

Top Goalscorers

PakhtakorD. Ćeran
D. Ćeran
7 goals
NeftchiS. Kuziyev
S. Kuziyev
4 goals
NeftchiA. Ismailov
A. Ismailov
2 goals

Neftchi missing players

Pakhtakor missing players

Neftchi Pakhtakor
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
14 7 2 Played P 2 8 14
2 2 0 Won W 1 4 7
6 2 1 Drew D 1 4 6
6 3 1 Lost L 0 0 1
13 7 2 Scored S 3 12 21
19 7 3 Conceded C 1 4 11
86% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 86%
64% 57% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 71%
43% 43% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 12% 29%
21% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 29%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
50% 43% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 43%
29% 43% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 62% 57%
36% 29% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 14%
 
3.8 3.6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.6 4.5
3.4 3.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.1 3.3
2.3 1.9 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.4 2.2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
11.3 12.1 15 Shots (avg) S ( 12 10.8 11.8
4 4.7 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 5.1 5.4
23% 21% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 29% 27%
 
11.1 8.9 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 3 9 8.1
5.1 3.6 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0.5 3.9 3.5
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • Pakhtakor have not yet lost a game away.
  • Pakhtakor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Pakhtakor have the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor have the most clean sheets (5) away in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor have the most clean sheets (8) 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 Navbahor 15 9 4 2 18 8 8 4 3 1 9 3 7 5 1 1 9 5 10 31
2 Sogdiana 15 9 3 3 25 16 8 4 2 2 12 8 7 5 1 1 13 8 9 30
3 Nasaf 14 7 6 1 25 9 6 2 3 1 10 4 8 5 3 0 15 5 16 27
4 Pakhtakor 14 7 6 1 21 11 6 3 2 1 9 7 8 4 4 0 12 4 10 27
5 Qizilqum 15 8 2 5 22 18 7 4 0 3 12 9 8 4 2 2 10 9 4 26
6 AMGK 15 7 3 5 25 15 8 4 2 2 16 8 7 3 1 3 9 7 10 24
7 FK Olympic 15 3 9 3 18 13 8 1 5 2 5 8 7 2 4 1 13 5 5 18
8 Metalourg 14 3 7 4 8 13 7 2 4 1 5 5 7 1 3 3 3 8 -5 16
9 Lokomotiv 15 5 1 9 13 21 7 3 0 4 6 7 8 2 1 5 7 14 -8 16
10 Surkhon 13 3 4 6 12 18 6 2 1 3 7 9 7 1 3 3 5 9 -6 13
10 Bunyodkor 15 4 4 7 17 26 8 2 3 3 9 15 7 2 1 4 8 11 -9 16
11 Kokand-1912 15 3 5 7 12 22 7 2 3 2 8 9 8 1 2 5 4 13 -10 14
12 Termez Surkhon 15 3 4 8 12 25 7 2 1 4 7 14 8 1 3 4 5 11 -13 13
13 Neftchi 14 2 6 6 13 19 7 2 2 3 7 7 7 0 4 3 6 12 -6 12
14 Dinamo Samarqand 15 1 4 10 13 26 9 1 2 6 7 16 6 0 2 4 6 10 -13 7

Read more about Professional Football League

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.