On Sunday Aug 21st, in week 6, CSKA Moscow plays host to Akhmat Grozny in a meeting of these two Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. In their last match, CSKA Moscow recorded a 1-2 loss against Zenit. Malcom struck first for Zenit in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, then Fedor Chalov tied it up for CSKA Moscow in the 63rd minute. CSKA Moscow is looking for direction having 3 win and 1 losses in their last 10 matches, while akhmat Grozny is fresh off their 3-1 win against Khimki. Aleksandr Troshechkin scored the first goal for Akhmat Grozny in the 14th minute, then Anton Shvets added another in the 43rd minute on a feed from Yury Zhuravlev. Akhmat Grozny is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
Both Artem Timofeev and Aleksandr Troshechkin have been the hottest scorers for Akhmat Grozny in the last five each having scored 2 goals. For CSKA Moscow, their top scorers are Jorge Carrascal and Jesús Medina, each having 3 goals in their last five matches.