Athletistic / Football. Sochi and Lokomotiv Moscow will meet in the match of the 6th round of the Russian Premier League
SPORT.RU invites you to a direct-to-text online broadcast of this meeting:
Soccer. RPL. Sochi – Lokomotiv. Direct
On the evening of Sunday August 27, the program for the 6th round of the Russian Premier League will close the match in Sochi, where the local club of the same name will face Lokomotiv Moscow. Both teams are in the bottom half of the table, which of course does not correspond to their ambitions. According to the bookmakers, Sochi is not the obvious favorite in the game. You can bet on the victory of the local team with a coefficient of 2.40, while the success of the “railway” is estimated at 2.85 points.
“Sochi” had a very ambiguous start to the season. Dmitry Khokhlov’s team started the league with a confident home win against Baltika (2:0), but then suffered three straight defeats, conceding 7 goals in those fights. It was only last weekend that the southerners managed to regain points: at home, Sochi beat Rostov (4:0). In the Russian Cup, the “Citizens” also have a defeat with a victory, so it’s not easy to predict what kind of game the southerners will show today. Obviously, there is no stability in the actions of Khokhlov’s wards yet, but the home walls usually help the Sochi team, so the home team will definitely compete for points.
“Locomotive”, without Artyom Dziuba in the composition, does not shine with its results and has not yet managed to win the championship three games in a row. In two extreme encounters, the “railway workers” made peace in the battles against the “Wings of the Soviets” and “Krasnodar” with the same score 1:1. And they only managed to win the Russian Cup in August, when Mikhail Galaktionov’s side beat Rubin 1-0 in Kazan. It’s obvious that the Muscovites are struggling to attack, as evidenced by the modest numbers in the “goals scored” column. And before Dziuba returns to Lokomotiv, this issue is unlikely to be resolved. Therefore, in today’s game, the bookmakers do not consider the “railroad” as the favorite of the match, although according to the status of the club it should have been.
Historically, Lokomotiv is not the most convenient opponent for the people of Sochi. As part of the Premier League, Muscovites have won 4 out of 8 matches, to the credit of Sochi only 2 victories. But it was the last face-to-face of the clubs in Sochi which ended in a crushing defeat of the “railroaders” (0:4). It happened last fall, and in the spring the current “Locomotive” in the native walls got some kind of revenge – 3:0. Such results were achieved in head-to-head meetings between the teams of the previous championship.
Soccer. RPL. Sochi – Lokomotiv. Direct
The live online broadcast of this match will begin on SPORT.RU August 27 at 8:00 p.m. Moscow time
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