The Premier League fixture at Stadion Fakel on Sunday sees home team Fakel Voronezh do battle with opponents Lokomotiv Moscow.
All Fakel Voronezh v Lokomotiv Moscow match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - as well as up-to-date odds.
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Form Guide
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Fakel Voronezh
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Fakel Voronezh enter this game after a 0-0 Premier League drawn match against Spartak Moscow.
In that match, Fakel Voronezh had 44% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Spartak Moscow got 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.
A common feature of recent Fakel Voronezh games is the number of results with a nil in them.
Taking their prior six matches leading up to this one, in 5 of them a wager on BTTS would've been a loser.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Fakel Voronezh:
- have not emerged victorious against Lokomotiv Moscow in their previous 4 league games.
- are without a win at home for the past 10 matches in the league. No joy for the home fans.
Lokomotiv Moscow
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Previously, Lokomotiv Moscow drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Orenburg.
In that match, Lokomotiv Moscow had 49% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Lokomotiv Moscow was Sergey Pinyaev (57'). On the other side, Orenburg got 23 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Aleksei Tatayev (66') was the scorer for Orenburg.
The stats don’t lie, and Lokomotiv Moscow have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals overall. In defence, Lokomotiv Moscow have been far from perfect. We will see if that trend can be sustained here.
Going into this encounter, Lokomotiv Moscow are without a win away from home in their last 8 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.
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Head to head
The previous league match featuring the two was Premier League match day 15 on 09/11/2024 when the final score was Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 Fakel Voronezh.
On that occasion, Lokomotiv Moscow managed 49% possession and 20 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Their only player to score was Aleksey Batrakov (29', 92').
Fakel Voronezh got 11 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Evgeniy Markov (84') was the scorer.
The referee was Sergey Cyganok.
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Team News: Fakel Voronezh
Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Fakel Voronezh manager Igor Shalimov to contend with from an otherwise fully-primed squad. Maks Dziov (Broken fibula) misses out.
We think that Fakelony should employ a 3-5-2 system for this game and select Vitaliy Gudiev, Dylan Mertens, Igor Yurganov, Sergey Bozhin, Mohamed Brahimi, Ilnur Alshin, Vyacheslav Yakimov, Andrey Ivlev, Igor Kalinin, Aleksey Kashtanov and Vladimir Iljin.
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Team News: Lokomotiv Moscow
We believe Loko could decide to make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, giving starts to Anton Mitryushkin, Aleksandr Silyanov, Maksim Nenakhov, Egor Pogostnov, Vadim Rakov, Artem Karpukas, Dmitri Barinov, Vladislav Sarveli, Aleksey Batrakov, Sergey Pinyaev and Dmitri Vorobyev.
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Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Fakel Voronezh will need things to go their way to be putting a goal past this Lokomotiv Moscow side who we think will likely score at least once to put them ahead.
We’re therefore tipping a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 0-1 winning score for Lokomotiv Moscow when all is said and done.
We’ll see what happens.
Renata Leite,
11:02 08/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
🏟️ Team Focus:
Fakel Voronezh
Formed: 1947
Stadium: Stadion Fakel (10,052)
Captain: Irakli Kvekveskiri
Chairman: Roman Askhabadze
Manager: Igor Shalimov
Competitions: Premier League position 16
⭐ Key Man: Vladimir Ilyin
Mostly used in the Striker position, Vladimir Ilyin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. After having made a senior debut playing for Ural in the 2016 - 2017 season, the accomplished Forward has contributed 2 league goals in this Premier League 2024 - 2025 season to date in a total of 22 appearances.