📊 Form Guide

Rubin Kazan

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Rubin Kazan will be hoping to bounce back here following the 3-2 Premier League loss in their previous game against FC Khimki.

In that game, Rubin Kazan managed 45% possession and 15 shots on goal with 7 on target. The only player to score for Rubin Kazan was Mirlind Daku (12', 58'). On the other side, Khimki had 10 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Anton Zabolotny (9') and Aleksandr Rudenko (67', 92') scored for FC Khimki.

Rubin Kazan haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, finding the back of the net every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 8 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 9.

Going into this one, Rubin Kazan are undefeated in their last 7 league matches at home.

Orenburg

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against FC Krasnodar in Premier League competition, Orenburg and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that game, Orenburg had 44% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Orenburg was Brian Mansilla (7'). For their opponents, Krasnodar got 21 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Jhon Córdoba (29') and Lucas Olaza (51') scored for FC Krasnodar.

The numbers tell their own story, and Orenburg have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals overall. In defence, Orenburg just haven’t been too solid at all. That sort of trend won’t necessarily be carried forward here, though.

Coming into this contest, Orenburg haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head clashes stretching back to 03/05/2019 shows us that Rubin Kazan have won 3 of these and Orenburg 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A total of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 7 for Tatáry and 7 for Orenburg. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The last league meeting between these sides was Premier League match day 13 on 27/10/2024 when it finished Orenburg 1-2 Rubin Kazan.

On that occasion, Orenburg managed 63% possession and 13 shots at goal with 3 on target. The scorer was Saeid Saharkhizan (27').

Rubin Kazan got 11 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Veldin Hodža (48', 87') scored.

The referee was Pavel Kukuyan.

📋 Team News: Rubin Kazan

Ugochukwu Iwu (Muscle injury) and Aleksandar Jukic (Knee injury) will be missing for Rubin Kazan gaffer Rashid Rakhimov.

It’s our opinion that Tatáry look set to make use of the 5-3-2 system in the match and select Evgeniy Staver, Dmitriy Kabutov, Egor Teslenko, Igor Vujacic, Aleksey Gritsaenko, Ilya Rozhkov, Valentin Vada, Bogdan Jocic, Veldin Hodza, Mirlind Daku and Dardan Shabanhaxhaj.

🗞️ Team News: Orenburg

Orenburg boss Vladimir Slišković has some current player fitness concerns. Gabriel Florentín (Cruciate ligament tear) and Bogdan Moskvichev (Cruciate ligament tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

We believe Orenburg might utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting Nikolay Sysuev, Georgiy Zotov, Danila Khotulev, Danila Prokhin, Maksim Sidorov, Yaroslav Mikhailov, Ivan Basic, Emircan Gurluk, Dmitriy Rybchinskiy, Brian Mansilla and Maksim Saveljev.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Orenburg may not find it easy to hit the back of the net against this Rubin Kazan lineup who we think will likely score at least once to gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a highly competitive game with a 1-0 winning margin for Rubin Kazan when all is said and done.

Let’s see.

Lucas Pereira, 13:04 24/05/2025