On August 19, a match between the Krylia Sovetov and Fakel teams will take place at the Samara Arena stadium as part of the 6th round of the Russian Premier League. For almost five years, the blue-whites have not won against the Samara club. What to expect from the upcoming meeting? – read in our forecast.
Wings of the Soviets
Following the results of the 2021/2022 season, Krylia Sovetov took the eighth place in the Russian championship. In the current season, the Samara team takes the eleventh place. After five matches, the club has only one victory. In the first round of the championship with a score of 4:2, Krylia defeated Orenburg on their field. The team lost to Zenit in the away meeting in the dry, conceding three goals. At home, Krylia Sovetov, losing after the first half to Torpedo Moscow, managed to reduce the result of the match to a draw. Having scored a goal in each of the halves, Dynamo turned out to be stronger than the black and blue. Last weekend, in the fifth round match, Krylia Sovetov rolled out a draw with the Railwaymen on the road. The goal scored by Miranchuk from the penalty spot in the first added minute at the end of the match allowed the Samara club to avoid defeat. In the last meeting at the "Torch" in April last year, "Wings" won with a crushing score of 5:1."Torch""Flammable" at the end of last season took second place in the FNL and at the moment in the new season in the Premier League, the team is placed one line lower in the standings than "black and blue."
The Torcheons have not yet pleased their fans with victories in the championship. In the first round on the road in the match with Krasnodar, having scored first already in the tenth minute, by the end of the first half, the blue-whites were already losing to the opponent by one goal. In the second half, the team equalized the score. The match ended in a draw (2:2). In the match of the next round, having opened the score first in the away game with Akhmat, with the score 1:2, Fakel lost. Losing by two goals after the first half in a home game with Dynamo, the Torcheons managed to get together and draw. Alshin's goal four minutes before the end of the match helped his team to take at least one point in this meeting. If not for Cherov's own goal in the forty-ninth minute, then perhaps the Torch would have celebrated the victory. In the away match with the Army, Gongadze opened the score in the match with a penalty kick at the end of the first half. But the blue-whites lost the advantage and lost to CSKA with a crushing score of 1:4. In the last round, the "flammable" rolled out a zero draw with the "Urals".
Figures and statistics: Krylia Sovetov won one of the last five matches.
- During the same period, Fakel did not win a single match and lost to its rivals in two.
- Of the four face-to-face meetings on the field of the Samara team, three ended with the outcome "total more than 2.5 goals per game".
The forecast of Dynamo and Zenit, to whom the black and blue lost in the new season, according to the results of the last championship, occupied positions higher in the standings than CSKA and Akhmat, to whom the torcheons lost.
Taking into account the statistics of face-to-face meetings, the Samara team has an advantage in the upcoming meeting. Our forecast: the victory of the Krylia Sovetov team. The coefficient is 1.80.
