Neftekhimik hosts Fakel Voronezh in round 17 of Russian FNL. The match will be played on Saturday, October 12th at Rubin Stadium (Kazan)
After a 2-year break, Neftekhimik returned to the FNL. And what this return is – the team is in the top four and has every chance to compete for promotion to the Premier League! Kazan club gained seven victories in 16 rounds. One of them was gained in the round before last over Torpedo, which leads the standings. Neftekhimik scored 23 goals and played pretty well in the defense - 16 goals conceded. Such a high coefficient for the victory of one of the leaders is caused by the fact that Neftekhimik usually holds hard matches against the upcoming opponent.
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Fakel seems to prepare to start the next season in League 2. Only two wins in 16 rounds and 8 losses. The team lost six of eight matches outside Voronezh. Fakel couldn’t win the last five matches - 2 losses and 3 draws. The team scored only nine goals in the championship but already conceded 19. The prospects of Fakel with such a game are not bright at all.
Neftekhimik gained a decent momentum. There were no defeats in the last seven matches - 5 victories and two draws. The team won the last three matches in a row, and as I noted above, it beat leading Torpedo in one of them. It is unlikely that adrift and penultimate Fakel will manage to take at least one point from the fourth team in the standings. Yes, Fakel won both head-to-head matches. But it was in 2017, just when Neftekhimik left the FNL. Now it also wants to leave it, only not to go not down to the second league but up to the Premier Division... But outsiders must be defeated without any options. And the Kazan team is likely to do it because circumstances are more than suitable.
Prediction for the match: Neftekhimik to win
