Sochi hosts Rubin Kazan in round 3 of the Russian Premier League. The match will be played on Tuesday, July 18th at Fisht Olympic Stadium (Sochi)
FC Sochi is a good football project under the patronage of Gazprom, and this team will be fine. They hired a sensible coach Fedotov, whom I really liked from his work in Orenburg, and they put together a very high-quality squad by the standards of the current RPL, staffed with a whole cohort of former Zenit players. There are enough skilled players in the Sochi club. They have hard worker Poloz, the creative Noboa, the Krasnodar techie Joaozinho, and the magnificent goalkeeper Dzhanaev, who played for the national team. The line of defense is simply amazing - Nabiullin, Terekhov, Mammana, Mevlya, and Novoseltsev could have played even in the leading clubs of the national championship. With such a gang, the Sochi club can compete for a place in the European cup zone! The results at the beginning of the season for the southerners are not the most outstanding (draws with Spartak and Khimki), but they look very good in terms of the game.
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I can’t say that Rubin added much with the arrival of Slutsky. It is not clear what they are playing... It seems that they did not acquire reliability in defense, and the attack looks pale. Lokomotiv simply declassified them in the first round, and in the second round with the weak Ural, the Kazan team managed to score only from the penalty spot and eventually shared the points.
FC Sochi looks more preferable for me in this pair. The team is better equipped and shows a more intelligible game. I believe that the coefficient for the southerners is too high, and due to their field, they should be more tangible favorites than the bookmakers consider. I do not rule out a draw, but if we discard it, then I believe in the victory of Sochi much more than in the victory of Rubin. Kazan looks very pale in the attack to count on three points in this match.
Prediction for the match: Sochi to win with 0.0 handicap
