📊 Form Guide

FC Khimki

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FC Khimki will play in this game after a 2-2 Premier League draw vs Akron Tolyatti.

In that match, FC Khimki managed 46% possession and 14 shots at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for FC Khimki was Lucas Vera (29'). Akron Tolyatti got 7 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Artem Dzyuba (12'), Konstantin Savichev (24' Own goal) and Rodrigo Escoval (67') scored for Akron Tolyatti.

It’s been seldom in recent games where FC Khimki have kept a clean sheet. The facts show that FC Khimki have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 11 goals during that time.

A look at their previous results shows us that FC Khimki:

• have not emerged victorious against FC Rostov in their previous 5 league games.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league games.

FC Rostov

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In their previous game, FC Rostov drew 1-1 in the Premier League tie with Lokomotiv Moscow.

In that match, FC Rostov had 49% possession and 15 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for FC Rostov was Kirill Shchetinin (23'). Lokomotiv Moscow had 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Aleksey Batrakov (75') was the scorer for Lokomotiv Moscow.

The numbers tell their own story, and FC Rostov have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 9 goals in total. In defence, FC Rostov certainly have room for improvement. We will find out if that trend will be continued on in this game.

Coming into this meeting, FC Rostov are undefeated by FC Khimki in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings going back to 12/03/2021 shows us that FC Khimki have won 1 of them & FC Rostov 4, with the number of draws being 1.

A combined sum of 12 goals were produced between them in this period, with 4 of them for Khimki and 8 belonging to Rostov. The average goals per game has been 2.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Premier League match day 15 on 09/11/2024 and the score finished FC Rostov 3-1 FC Khimki.

That day, FC Rostov managed 50% possession and 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorers were Ivan Komarov (6', 75') and Maksim Osipenko (67').

For their opponents, FC Khimki had 12 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Reziuan Mirzov (88') was the scorer.

The referee was Roman Safjan.

🗞️ Team News: FC Khimki

Edgardo Fariña (Muscle injury) and Diego Luna (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for FC Khimki manager Magomed Adiyev.

It’s our opinion that FC Khimki will probably use the 5-3-2 formation in the match with Nikita Kokarev, Ilya Berkovskiy, Daniel Fernández, Georgiy Dzhikiya, Oleksandr Filin, Danil Stepanov, Robert Mejía, Alex Corredera, Lucas Vera, Zelimkhan Bakaev and Anton Zabolotny.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Rostov

FC Rostov manager Jonatan Alba has multiple availability issues to deal with. Viktor Melekhin (Leg injury), Eyad El Askalany (Cruciate ligament tear) and Mohammad Mohebi (Foot injury) won’t be making appearances.

We reckon that FC Rostov seem most likely to elect for a 4-3-3 lineup, starting Rustam Yatimov, Andrey Langovich, Oumar Sako, Maksim Osipenko, Ilya Vakhania, Ivan Komarov, Daniil Shantaliy, Kirill Shchetinin, Egor Golenkov, Nikolay Komlichenko and Khoren Bayramyan.

🧠 Prediction

We’re envisaging that FC Khimki may find it difficult to register a score against this FC Rostov lineup who should end up scoring and staying ahead.

That’s why our selection here is for a highly competitive game with a 0-1 victory for FC Rostov at the end of the 90.

We’ll see what happens.

Victor Martins, 16:02 04/05/2025