On the 14th of May, Rostov hosts Khimki in a meeting of these two Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 19 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Rostov sits at 10th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Ufa. Neither Ufa nor Rostov could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 11 and 8 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Rostov should be reasonably happy with their performance, while khimki is fresh off their 0-1 loss against Zenit. Ivan Sergeev struck first for Zenit in the 13th minute on a feed from Yuri Alberto, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Khimki couldn’t manage to score, and Zenit took the shutout win. Khimki is looking for direction having 4 win and 3 losses in their last 10 matches.
On the 8th of August, Khimki hosted Rostov at the Stadion Rodina in their last match together. Khimki and Rostov battled to a 1-1 draw. Nikolay Komlichenko struck first for Rostov in the 14th minute, but Denis Glushakov got the equalizer for Khimki in the 70th minute squeezing out at least the one point for Khimki.
For Khimki, their top scorers are Aleksandr Rudenko and Iliya Sadygov, each having 2 goals in their last five matches. Both Dmitri Poloz and Nikolay Komlichenko have been the hottest scorers for Rostov in the last 5 each having scored 3 goals each.