CSKA Moscow vs Nizhny Novgorod Live Stream, Predictions (May 24)

📊 Form Guide

CSKA Moscow

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CSKA Moscow prepare for this fixture following a 2-2 Premier League drawn match versus Lokomotiv Moscow.

In that match, CSKA Moscow had 69% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. For CSKA Moscow, the goalscorers were Saúl Guarirapa (47') and Matvey Kislyak (80'). Lokomotiv Moscow had 4 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Dmitriy Vorobyev (10', 25') scored for Lokomotiv Moscow.

CSKA Moscow haven’t had any problems with scoring, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have hit an aggregate of 9 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 5.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that CSKA Moscow:

• have not been beaten in the league by Nizhny Novgorod in their previous 3 matches.
• have not been beaten in their last 6 league matches at home.

Nizhny Novgorod

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In their previous game, Nizhny Novgorod drew 1-1 in the Premier League tie with Fakel Voronezh.

In that game, Nizhny Novgorod managed 47% possession and 6 shots at goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Nizhny Novgorod was Vyacheslav Grulev (66'). Fakel Voronezh got 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Ilnur Alshin (18') was the scorer for Fakel Voronezh.

The numbers tell their own story, and Nizhny Novgorod have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 9 goals in total. Defensively, Nizhny Novgorod certainly have room for improvement. That kind of trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this match, though.

Coming into this clash, Nizhny Novgorod are without a win away from home in their last 7 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings going back to 05/03/2022 tells us that CSKA Moscow have won 4 of these games & Nizhny Novgorod 1, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

There were also plenty of goals scored in those games, 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league encounter featuring these sides was Premier League match day 2 on 27/07/2024 and the score finished Nizhny Novgorod 0-3 CSKA Moscow.

On that occasion, Nizhny Novgorod had 50% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

CSKA Moscow got 11 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Tamerlan Musaev (15'), Igor Diveev (50') and Ivan Oblyakov (78') scored.

The match was refereed by Pavel Kukuyan.

📋 Team News: CSKA Moscow

In our view, Armeytsy will probably use a 4-4-2 system for this game with Igor Akinfeev, Khellven, Igor Diveev, Willyan Rocha, Moisés, Ivan Oblyakov, Matvey Kislyak, Kristijan Bistrovic, Rifat Zhemaletdinov, Sekou Koita and Saul Guarirapa.

📋 Team News: Nizhny Novgorod

We are inclined to think that Nizhny Novgorod will likely elect for a 5-3-2 system, starting Nikita Medvedev, Aleksandr Ektov, Viktor Aleksandrov, Kirill Gotsuk, Sven Karic, Ilya Agapov, Nikolay Kalinskiy, Mamadou Maiga, Nikita Kakkoev, Thiago Vecino and Vyacheslav Grulev.

💭 Prediction

It looks to us that CSKA Moscow should really create enough chances to score more than one when they meet Nizhny Novgorod, who will be up against it scoring a goal of their own.

We’re tipping a 2-0 win for CSKA Moscow at the end of the 90 minutes.

Renata Leite, 22:05 20/05/2025