📊 Form Guide

Nizhny Novgorod

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Nizhny Novgorod will be hoping to bounce back here following the 2-1 Premier League defeat last time out to Zenit St Petersburg.

In that match, Nizhny Novgorod managed 25% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nizhny Novgorod was Vyacheslav Grulev (14'). For their opponents, Zenit had 24 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Aleksandr Sobolev (54', 83') was the scorer for Zenit St Petersburg.

It’s not been often in recent games that Nizhny Novgorod have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Nizhny Novgorod have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals in the process. In any event, we must now wait to see if that trend will continue on here in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Nizhny Novgorod:

• haven't won against Krylia Sovetov in their previous 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Krylia Sovetov

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Dynamo Moscow in Premier League competition, Krylia Sovetov and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Krylia Sovetov managed 61% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Dynamo Moscow had 16 shots on goal with 9 on target. Nicolas Moumi Ngamaleu (2'), Dmitri Skopintsev (31' Own goal) and Yarolsav Gladyshev (55', 82') scored for Dynamo Moscow.

Over the course of their last half-dozen clashes, Krylia Sovetov have amassed the sum of 13 goals. Krylia Sovetov have also not failed to score on each one of those occasions. During that period, they have had 7 goals go against them.

Coming into this clash, Krylia Sovetov have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings going back to 28/11/2021, there has been little between the sides with Nizhny Novgorod winning 2 of those games, Krylia Sovetov 2 and 2 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

14 goals were produced between them in these games, with 7 of them for Nizhny Novgorod and 7 belonging to Perya. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Premier League match day 6 on 25/08/2024 when the final score was Krylia Sovetov 3-1 Nizhny Novgorod.

In that game, Krylia Sovetov had 63% possession and 22 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Thomas Galdames (71', 76') and Franco Orozco (90').

At the other end, Nizhny Novgorod got 11 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Juan Manuel Boselli (57') scored.

The match was refereed by Mikhail Cheremnykh.

📰 Team News: Nizhny Novgorod

In our view, Nizhny Novgorod will possibly line up in a 3-4-2-1 system, utilising Nikita Medvedev, Viktor Aleksandrov, Kirill Gotsuk, Sven Karic, Vladislav Karapuzov, Mamadou Maiga, Nikita Kakkoev, Ilya Agapov, A. Troshechkin, Juan Manuel Boselli and Vyacheslav Grulev.

📰 Team News: Krylia Sovetov

We believe Perya seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, starting the game with Sergey Pesjakov, Glenn Bijl, A. Soldatenkov, Ilya Gaponov, Kirill Pechenin, Fernando Costanza, Sergey Babkin, Nikolay Rasskazov, Ivan Oleynikov, Anton Zinkovskiy and Ivan Sergeev.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Krylia Sovetov and Nizhny Novgorod are both capable of scoring here.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. Our tip is therefore for a hard-fought 1-1 score when the referee blows the full-time whistle.

Victor Martins, 15:02 12/05/2025