In this week 17 match, on Sat Nov 12th, Ural and Fakel will play a match in Jekaterinburg in a Premier League match. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cold day, with daytime temperatures of only 2 degrees, which will make playing unpleasant. Ural sits at 11th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-2 draw against Locomotiv Moscow. Anton Miranchuk scored the first goal for Locomotiv Moscow in the 16th minute, then Yuri Gazinskiy tied it up for Ural in the 67th minute . With 17 points in their last 10 matches Ural should be reasonably happy with their performance, while fakel sits at 13th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 3-3 draw against Krasnodar. Roman Akbashev struck first for Fakel in the 11th minute on a feed from Khazyr Appaev, then Jhon Córdoba tied it up for Krasnodar in the 29th minute . Fakel looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 9 points in their last 10 matches.
On the 12th of August, Fakel hosted Ural at the Central’nyi Stadion Profsoyuzov in their last match together. Fakel and Ural battled to a 0-0 draw. Neither Fakel nor Ural could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 18 and 18 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,.
Georgy Gongadze has been the most prolific scorer on Fakel in his last 5 matches with three goals. Ural is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Aleksey Kashtanov and Yuri Gazinskiy each having 3 goals in their last five.