Sokol - Neftekhimik: betting tip for the First League match
As part of the 23rd round, Sokol will meet Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik on March 9 at the Lokomotiv stadium in Saratov. The hosts are in a series of five consecutive matches without Victoria and are fighting for survival in the best league in the world, and the opponent is not shining with results this season, but has a more confident position. Will the club from Saratov be able to earn three points and what bets will be played in the match? The answer is in our betting tip

Command Analysis

Sokol Saratov

Current form
During the winter transfer window, Sokol signed three players and leased six more, including Nduka from Krasnodar, Lepsky from Dynamo Moscow and Porokhov from Khimki. Seven people left the team. In the last round, the feathered ones competed in Sochi against the club of the same name and scored a goalless draw. It is worth noting that in this game, the teams scored only two shots on goal, which came from the wards of Alexei Stukalov. This winter, Saratov broke a series of four defeats in a row. At the moment, the squad is in the relegation zone in 16th place and has 20 points in the asset, lagging behind the saving line, where Ufa is located, by one point. The main task set by the club's management is to maintain registration in the best league in the world, and there are all the prerequisites for this. The team is the most ineffective team, which has scored only 11 goals since the start of the championship and won four victories against eight world champions.
Disqualifications and injuries
There are no injured or disqualified persons.
Interesting betting trends
- The club scores 0.5 goals per game on average.
- In the last 15 games in all tournaments, Sokol has won only three victories.
Approximate composition: Kosarevsky, Churikov, Runner, Gurtsiev, Zabelin, Kantaria, Karpitsky, Kovachevich, Lepsky, Polubayarinov, Sasin.

Neftekhimik

Current form
In winter, the petrochemical company took Abdokov, Malyarov, and Shiryaev from Alanya, from Yenisei, and Shiryaev from the Baltic. In the last round, Kirill Novikov's team failed to beat SKA Khabarovsk on their own field. Objectively speaking, the match should have ended in a draw, because there were enough dangerous moments on both sides to score at least one goal. But the key episodes were the mistake of the home goalkeeper Nikita Yanovich – 0:1 in the end. At this stage, the representative of Tatarstan looks like a strong average man and is able to provide proper resistance to more experienced rivals. The team from Nizhnekamsk is on the 11th line in the standings, has earned 26 points and has no goals for reaching the play-off matches and reaching the Premier League.
Disqualifications and injuries
There are no injured or disqualified players in the squad.
Interesting betting trends
- Neftekhimik has won only one victory in the last eight games.
- On average, the club concedes one goal per match.
Approximate composition: Yanovich, Abdokov, Aliev, Denisov, Yemelyanov, Kakhidze, Nikitin, Sitdikov, Tolstopyatov, Shiltsov, Shiryaev.
Trends
The exact score is 1:0
In 1 of the last 3 meetings of the hosts, such a score was recorded
6.001st halfbet: draw
In 2 of the last 3 matches of the "feathered" in the First League, there was a world series in the first half.
1.82Bet 2nd half: Sokol will score
In 2 of the last 3 games in the second half, the visitors conceded
2.00Tip and bets
Most likely, the game will be dictated by Sokol with a small number of scoring chances. However, the opponents' defense is not bad. It should be noted that no more than two goals were scored in the last two face-to-face games of the rivals, and we believe that the scoring extravaganza will not take place in this battle either.
The betting tip is a total of less than two goals with a coefficient of 1.77
Bet on the total
In our opinion, in this confrontation it is more logical to pay attention to the owners. Sokol cannot win five consecutive games in the FNL, today he intends to earn three points and break such a bad streak. We can assume that the home team will take advantage of the support of the fans in Saratov and leave their counterpart out of business.
Betting Tip – Asian handicap (0) on Sokol with a coefficient of 1.73
Betting on team goals
In this game, the opponents will be cautious and it is probably not worth expecting goals from both clubs in a duel. In Saratov's last three out of five matches, there was no exchange of goals, which we expect today.
The betting tip is that both will not score with a coefficient of 1.63