National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Metalourg or Surkhon that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Metalourg form and stats
Metalourg participated in Uzbekistan Cup the last season, where they reached the 8th finals.Only two Professional Football League home games for Metalourg so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
Stress levels are on the rise for Metalourg's attacking players as they have now played 181 minutes without scoring in a league game. Toshkuziev was their last goal scorer.
Metalourg's previous fixture was a Uzbekistan Cup game also played at their home, finishing 1-0 against Surkhon. The home side hope to to build on that result.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Metalourg 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, one draw and one defeat.
Early season league goal statistics from Metalourg's 2 home games: 1 goal, 0 conceded.
Surkhon form and stats
Last season their Uzbekistan Cup adventure ended in the quarter-finals.Surkhon are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Professional Football League, having played 2 games and collected 2 points (0 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses).
Two away games in a row for Surkhon, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Metalourg in the Uzbekistan Cup.
Surkhon are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, one draw and seven defeats. From a total of ten matches.
0 goals so far away for Surkhon, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
The teams have met each other before in this season, with the match result Metalourg - Surkhon 1-0 registered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: four - two - two (Metalourg wins - draws - Surkhon wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Norbekov 1 goals | A. Toshkuziev 1 goals |
Metalourg missing players
Surkhon missing players
| Metalourg | Surkhon | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Lost | L | 8 | 13 | ||
| 21 | 10 | Scored | S | 5 | 18 | ||
| 38 | 18 | Conceded | C | 19 | 35 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 77% | 88% | ||
| 60% | 46% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 31% | 36% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 15% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 44% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 31% | 32% | ||
| 16% | 31% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 40% | ||
| 44% | 38% | Failed to Score | F T | 62% | 40% | ||
| 4.8 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 3.4 | ||
| 5 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.3 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7 | 7.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 8.2 | ||
| 2.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.4 | 3 | ||
| 27% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 19% | 23% | ||
| 8.5 | 8.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 9.6 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bunyodkor | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Surkhon | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Metalourg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| 4 | Buxoro | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Qizilqum | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 2 | Pakhtakor | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Sogdiana | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | Navbahor | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Bunyodkor | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 6 | Kokand-1912 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Nasaf | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Metalourg | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | AMGK | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 10 | FK Olympic | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 11 | Lokomotiv | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 3 |
| 12 | Neftchi | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 3 |
| 13 | Surkhon | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 |
| 14 | Dinamo Samarqand | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 1 |
