Surkhon fights Pakhtakor in Professional Football League battle

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Competition: Uzbekistan Professional Football League
Competition: Sat 24.October
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)

The visiting Pakhtakor side should be favourites in this visit to Surkhon, as the away team holds a 35 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.

Pakhtakor could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Professional Football League game only three sleeps ago.

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Surkhon form and stats

Surkhon's results here in the Professional Football League have been very modest with 0 victories, 3 draws and 5 defeats. Surkhon are slowly digging their own grave here with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Bunyodkor match.

Surkhon are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 187 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by K. Gofurov).

The Surkhon crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Kokand-1912 here in a Professional Football League match. Preceding that match was a defeat to AMGK (0-1).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Surkhon, as the Professional Football League home game vs Lokomotiv is only four days away.

Surkhon aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 6 goals from 8 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.

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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, who have the most scored goals (53) in Professional Football League, collect 16 points from their 7 away matches in the Professional Football League. 5 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 14 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Sogdiana. Pakhtakor has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Pakhtakor had fun at their own home last time out, beating Sogdiana 2-0. That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Qizilqum.

Pakhtakor has another fixture away, a Professional Football League game, against Mash'al in just four days. A tough schedule for the visitors!

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Pakhtakor are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Pakhtakor defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (3 goals in 7 games).

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Pakhtakor - Surkhon 3-1 earlier this season. H2H stats regardless of arena (last three matches): Surkhon zero wins, one draw and Pakhtakor two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one game had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

PakhtakorD. Ćeran
D. Ćeran
16 goals
PakhtakorI. Sergeev
I. Sergeev
12 goals
PakhtakorE. Derdiyok
E. Derdiyok
8 goals

Surkhon missing players

Pakhtakor missing players

Surkhon Pakhtakor
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 8 3 Played P 3 7 18
3 0 0 Won W 3 5 15
3 3 0 Drew D 0 1 2
13 5 3 Lost L 0 1 1
13 6 1 Scored S 8 15 53
32 12 4 Conceded C 0 3 10
95% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
63% 62% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 94%
53% 50% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 43% 72%
21% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 29% 50%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 22%
47% 62% 33% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 44%
16% 12% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 57% 50%
42% 38% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 6%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.4 2.8 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.5 1.4
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
134 71 35 Total Shots T S 32 59 235
50 26 10 Shots on Target S O 11 22 114
26% 23% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 55% 59% 45%
Key stats in Professional Football League this season:
  • Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals (3) away in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (6) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the most scored goals (53) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the most scored goals in the first half (25) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the most scored goals in the second half (28) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the the best goal difference (+12) away in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor has the the best goal difference (+43) in Professional Football League
  • Pakhtakor have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Pakhtakor have scored more than double the goals of Surkhon.
  • Pakhtakor haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Pakhtakor is in the best form (5-1-0)
  • Surkhon has the fewest clean sheets (1) at home in Professional Football League
  • Surkhon has the fewest points (3) at home in Professional Football League
  • Surkhon have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Surkhon have yet to win a game at home.

  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 18 15 2 1 53 10 11 10 1 0 38 7 7 5 1 1 15 3 43 47
2 AMGK 20 12 6 2 31 18 10 7 3 0 16 7 10 5 3 2 15 11 13 42
3 Nasaf 20 11 7 2 39 16 10 7 3 0 25 6 10 4 4 2 14 10 23 40
4 Kokand-1912 19 10 2 7 29 22 10 7 1 2 21 10 9 3 1 5 8 12 7 32
5 Metalourg 19 9 4 6 27 23 9 4 2 3 11 12 10 5 2 3 16 11 4 31
6 Bunyodkor 18 8 5 5 27 25 8 6 1 1 14 6 10 2 4 4 13 19 2 29
7 Lokomotiv 19 8 1 10 23 34 11 6 0 5 15 15 8 2 1 5 8 19 -11 25
8 Navbahor 19 5 9 5 18 15 10 4 4 2 9 4 9 1 5 3 9 11 3 24
9 Sogdiana 19 6 6 7 22 26 9 5 3 1 16 8 10 1 3 6 6 18 -4 24
10 Mash'al 19 5 4 10 13 22 8 2 3 3 6 6 11 3 1 7 7 16 -9 19
11 Qizilqum 19 4 5 10 14 31 9 3 2 4 8 11 10 1 3 6 6 20 -17 17
12 Andijan 19 1 9 9 12 23 10 1 3 6 4 12 9 0 6 3 8 11 -11 12
13 Surkhon 19 3 3 13 13 32 8 0 3 5 6 12 11 3 0 8 7 20 -19 12
14 Buxoro 19 1 7 11 12 36 10 1 6 3 10 18 9 0 1 8 2 18 -24 10

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.