Russia will welcome Cyprus on Thursday to Gazprom Arena in Saint-Petersburg for a match of the 9th round of Europe’s World Cup – Qualification. The hosts in this tie are on 1st place in the standings with 19 points, while their next opponents are down to 6th position with 5 points.
Russia vs Cyprus Head to Head
Team Last Game 2021/09/04 Last 6 Games
Worth mentioning: The last meeting between Russia and Cyprus ended with a score of 0:2 to Russia. The game was held back on 4th of September 2021. Russia is currently on a run of four consecutive victories and have not been defeated for the last six H2H clashes. Playing at home has been of little significance in the last 6 encounters between the two teams with 2 home wins and 3 away wins. Only 1 of the 6 matches between the nations ended in a draw. Of their last five games, one resulted in over 2.5 goals and also one had both teams scoring. In that period Russia managed to keep four clean sheets, while Cyprus conceded goals in all matches. The last five encounters between the two teams finished with 11 goals scored in total.
Russia vs Cyprus Last Games Averages
*Average Metrics based on available data from last 6 games
Goals
Fouls
Corners
Offsides
Cards
Posession
Russia Form
- ?
- Waway
- Whome
- Whome
- Waway
- Dhome
- Lhome
- Waway
- Laway
- Whome
- Daway
Russia recorded a 1:2 away victory when coming up against Slovenia in a WC Qualifying encounter on October 11. The team are currently on a streak of four consecutive victories and have not seen defeat for their last five games. Russia’s performance has not been greatly affected by the factor of playing at home or away in their last 10 encounters. These resulted in 4 home wins and 4 away wins. Only 2 of the last 10 meetings for Russia ended in a draw. Of their last five meetings, one resulted in over 2.5 goals and one had both teams scoring. During that period Russia managed to keep four clean sheets, while they failed to score in just one match. Their last five outings finished with 8 goals scored in total.
- Goals1.10
- Fouls14.30
- Corners5.30
- Offsides2.30
- Cards1.70
- Posession45%
League | Date | Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score | Form |
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WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/10/11 | Slovenia | Russia | 1 | 2 | W |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/10/08 | Russia | Slovakia | 1 | 0 | W |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/07 | Russia | Malta | 2 | 0 | W |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/04 | Cyprus | Russia | 0 | 2 | W |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/01 | Russia | Croatia | 0 | 0 | D |
Euro | 2021/06/21 | Russia | Denmark | 1 | 4 | L |
Euro | 2021/06/16 | Finland | Russia | 0 | 1 | W |
Euro | 2021/06/12 | Belgium | Russia | 3 | 0 | L |
Friendly | 2021/06/05 | Russia | Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | W |
Friendly | 2021/06/01 | Poland | Russia | 1 | 1 | D |
Cyprus Form
- ?
- Dhome
- Lhome
- Laway
- Lhome
- Laway
- Laway
- Laway
- Whome
- Laway
- Dhome
Cyprus’s last match was against Malta a month ago and it finished in a 2:2 draw at home. Prior to the last encounter, the nation was on a run of six losses in a row and still has not registered a win. Playing at home has shown to be decisive as six of Cyprus’s last ten meetings ended in a victory for the hosting party, which lost only two of those. Three of the nation’s five last matches had over 2.5 goals and one witnessed goals at both ends of the field. Cyprus conceded in all of those, they failed to score score in four of the encounters. There were a total of 14 goals scored across the team’s five most recent games, which focuses our attention to the over 1.5 goals market.
- Goals0.30
- Fouls9.67
- Corners2.56
- Offsides2.44
- Cards2.00
- Posession35%
League | Date | Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 1 Score | Team 2 Score | Form |
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WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/10/11 | Cyprus | Malta | 2 | 2 | D |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/10/08 | Cyprus | Croatia | 0 | 3 | L |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/07 | Slovakia | Cyprus | 2 | 0 | L |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/04 | Cyprus | Russia | 0 | 2 | L |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/09/01 | Malta | Cyprus | 3 | 0 | L |
Friendly | 2021/06/07 | Ukraine | Cyprus | 4 | 0 | L |
Friendly | 2021/06/04 | Hungary | Cyprus | 1 | 0 | L |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/03/30 | Cyprus | Slovenia | 1 | 0 | W |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/03/27 | Croatia | Cyprus | 1 | 0 | L |
WC Qualifying Europe | 2021/03/24 | Cyprus | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | D |
Formations and Lineups
Russia
- G12Matvey Safonov
- D18Aleksei Sutormin
- D3Igor Diveev
- D5Maksim Osipenko
- D23Sergey Terekhov
- M21Aleksandr Erokhin
- M8Daniil Fomin
- M17Aleksandr Golovin
- F15Aleksei Miranchuk
- F9Fedor Smolov
- F22Andrey Mostovoy
Cyprus
- G12Dimitris Dimitriou
- D2Andreas Karo
- D16Costas Soteriou
- D19Konstantinos Laifis
- M6Paris Psaltis
- M18Kostakis Artymatas
- M20Grigoris Kastanos
- M4Nicholas Ioannou
- F21Marinos Tzionis
- F10Pieros Sotiriou
- F15Fotis Papoulis
Popular Markets
This is a list of some of the most popular markets and their winning ratio for the last 10 games - head to head and for the respective teams individually. The probability column is an average calculation based ONLY on statistical data with the Head2Head column having a slight advantage.
Last H2H | Last Russia | Last Cyprus | Probability | Value Odds Over | |
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Russia WIN | 5/6 | 6/10 | - | 75.87% | 1.32 |
DRAW | 1/6 | 2/10 | 2/10 | 19.44% | 5.14 |
Cyprus WIN | 0/6 | - | 1/10 | 4.69% | 21.33 |
Over 2.5 Goals | 2/6 | 3/10 | 4/10 | 34.33% | 2.91 |
BTTS | 1/6 | 3/10 | 1/10 | 18.67% | 5.36 |
Over 4.5 Cards | 1/3 | 3/10 | 3/9 | 32.33% | 3.09 |
Over 10.5 Corners | 1/3 | 2/10 | 0/9 | 19.33% | 5.17 |
Russia over 1.5 Goals | 3/6 | 3/10 | - | 41.00% | 2.44 |
Cyprus over 1.5 Goals | 0/6 | - | 1/10 | 4.50% | 22.22 |
Match Details
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87`A. ErokhinA. Zabolotnyi6 - 0
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83`(in) M. Spoljaric(out) F. Papoulis
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83`(in) M. Antoniadis(out) G. Kastanos
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82`A. ZabolotnyiA. Ionov5 - 0
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74`(in) A. Kakoulis(out) P. Sotiriou
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72`(in) A. Ionov(out) A. Mostovoy
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68`(in) R. Mamas(out) M. Tzionis
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67`(in) D. Chistyakov(out) I. Diveyev
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67`(in) D. Glebov(out) D. Fomin
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62`A. Sutormin4 - 0
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57`(in) R. Zobnin(out) A. Golovin
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57`(in) A. Zabolotnyi(out) F. Smolov
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56`A. MostovoyA. Golovin3 - 0
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55`F. SmolovA. Miranchuk2 - 0
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46`(in) M. Dimitriou(out) P. Psaltis
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4`A. ErokhinF. Smolov1 - 0