Soccer match preview: Neftchi confident before travelling to Qizilqum

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Fri 26.May
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yoshlar Sport Majmuasi (5000 seats)

Both Qizilqum and Neftchi are longing for points in this match, in spite of the away team having a 15 point edge so far.

Insights:
  • Qizilqum have the fewest scored goals (4) in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Professional Football League

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Qizilqum and Neftchi.

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Qizilqum form and stats

The story so far in the Professional Football League for Qizilqum at their home stadium (Yoshlar Sport Majmuasi) is 1 win, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

Qizilqum drew their last game, also a home match. Neftchi (placed 2nd) was the opponent, 1-1 the score.

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Andijan.

Low-scoring affair? In this club's last 10 league games, 8 have had less than three goals (under 2.5).

Qizilqum have scored {3 league goals} here from 5 matches, not a lot. Qizilqum have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Neftchi form and stats

3 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Neftchi playing as the away team in the Professional Football League this season. The travelling team now have four draws on the trot when playing in away games.

Neftchi has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Qizilqum for a 1-1 draw.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus FK Olympic that ended 0-0.

Neftchi has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 12 goals from 7 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).

Head 2 Head

Here's the end result when the participants played each other earlier this campaign; Qizilqum - Neftchi 1-1. Head to head statistics (for the preceeding ten meetings): Qizilqum won four games, three matches ended with a draw and Neftchi have three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven.

Top Goalscorers

NeftchiT. Tabatadze
T. Tabatadze
4 goals
NeftchiU. Khoshimov
U. Khoshimov
3 goals
NeftchiN. Tukhtasinov
N. Tukhtasinov
3 goals

Qizilqum missing players

Neftchi missing players

Qizilqum Neftchi
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 0 Played P 3 7 11
1 1 0 Won W 2 3 5
3 3 0 Drew D 1 4 6
7 1 0 Lost L 0 0 0
4 3 0 Scored S 7 12 18
17 3 0 Conceded C 2 5 9
91% 80% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 86% 91%
55% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 82%
27% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 43% 45%
18% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 29% 27%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
27% 40% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 43% 55%
18% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 57% 45%
64% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 9%
 
2.3 1.4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 3 3 4.1
5 4.4 0 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.3 4.5
2.3 1.6 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 1.9 1.9
7 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
3.4 2.2 0 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 6.1 7.5
1.5 1 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.3 3.7
25% 60% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 70% 52% 44%
 
8.4 6.2 0 Shots against (avg) S A 7.7 7.6 7.1
3.6 2.8 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 3.1 2.9
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • Neftchi have not yet lost a game.
  • Neftchi have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Neftchi have scored more than double the goals of Qizilqum.
  • Neftchi have the most clean sheets (4) away in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have the most points (13) away in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have the most scored goals (12) away in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have the the best goal difference (+7) away in Professional Football League
  • Neftchi have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Qizilqum have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Qizilqum have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Qizilqum have the fewest scored goals (4) in Professional Football League
  • Qizilqum have the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Professional Football League
  • Qizilqum have the most conceded goals in the second half (12) in Professional Football League
  • Qizilqum have won significantly less 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 Navbahor 10 7 1 2 20 5 5 5 0 0 11 0 5 2 1 2 9 5 15 22
2 Neftchi 11 5 6 0 18 9 4 2 2 0 6 4 7 3 4 0 12 5 9 21
3 Pakhtakor 9 7 0 2 17 10 5 4 0 1 10 6 4 3 0 1 7 4 7 21
4 AMGK 11 6 2 3 21 14 6 4 0 2 14 8 5 2 2 1 7 6 7 20
5 Nasaf 9 5 3 1 13 7 5 3 1 1 8 4 4 2 2 0 5 3 6 18
6 Bunyodkor 10 4 3 3 12 11 4 0 3 1 3 7 6 4 0 2 9 4 1 15
7 Termez Surkhon 10 4 3 3 11 10 6 4 1 1 8 5 4 0 2 2 3 5 1 15
8 FK Olympic 10 4 3 3 9 10 4 1 1 2 1 2 6 3 2 1 8 8 -1 15
9 Sogdiana 10 4 2 4 12 13 6 2 2 2 7 7 4 2 0 2 5 6 -1 14
10 Andijan 10 4 0 6 11 11 5 2 0 3 8 7 5 2 0 3 3 4 0 12
11 Buxoro 11 2 1 8 6 16 5 1 1 3 3 7 6 1 0 5 3 9 -10 7
12 Metalourg 10 2 1 7 7 20 5 2 0 3 5 8 5 0 1 4 2 12 -13 7
13 Qizilqum 11 1 3 7 4 17 5 1 3 1 3 3 6 0 0 6 1 14 -13 6
14 Turan 10 0 4 6 5 13 6 0 2 4 3 8 4 0 2 2 2 5 -8 4

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.