Amkar Perm’ v FC Moscow match preview

By: j | August 24th, 2008

An intriguing match as the Amkar Perm’ is deep in the hunt for a European bid and are chomping at the bit to make up ground on Dynamo Moscow that stumbled yesterday. However their stumbling attack needs to get untracked, which has all but disappeared. They will have quite a test though as FC Moscow as woke-up from their mid-season swoon and playing some very solid and disciplined Football as of late.

Recent Form
Amkar Perm’ – combined (W, 3 D, 2 L)(1 GS, 4 GA)
Jul 19 Zenit St Petersburg 2 – 0 Amkar Perm’
Jul 26 Amkar Perm’ 0 – 0 FK Tom’ Tomsk
Aug 3 Amkar Perm’ 0 – 0 Spartak Nalchik
Aug 10 Dynamo Moscow 1 – 0 Amkar Perm’
Aug 17 Amkar Perm’ 1 – 1 Spartak Moscow

Amkar Perm’ – away (2 W, 0 D, 3 L)(2 GS, 5 GA)
May 2 Samara Kryliya Sovetov 2 – 0 Amkar Perm’
May 11 Terek Grozny 0 – 1 Amkar Perm’
Jul 6 Lokomotiv Moscow 0 – 1 Amkar Perm’
Jul 19 Zenit St Petersburg 2 – 0 Amkar Perm’
Aug 10 Dynamo Moscow 1 – 0 Amkar Perm’

FC Moscow – combined (3 W,0 D, 2 L)(7 GS, 6 GA)
Jul 20 CSKA Moscow 0 – 2 FC Moscow
Jul 27 FC Moscow 0 – 3 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 2 Zenit St Petersburg 2 – 1 FC Moscow
Aug 9 FC Moscow 2 – 1 Tom’ Tomsk
Aug 17 Khimki 0 – 2 FC Moscow

FC Moscow – home (W, D, L)(GS, GA)
May 6 FC Moscow 1 – 2 Rubin Kazan
May 15 FC Moscow 1 – 1 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Jul 13 FC Moscow 0 – 0 Terek Grozny
Jul 27 FC Moscow 0 – 3 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 9 FC Moscow 2 – 1 Tom’ Tomsk

Key men to watch in the match is FC Moscow’s Kirill Nababkin and Alexander Samedov and Amkar Perm’s Ivan Starkov and Nikolay Zhilyaev. Each of these young developing players have seen their stature and importance grow with the clubs and proving out to be tremendous investments. While the young Nikolay Zhilyaev is not likely to be in the starting grid, please pay careful attention to him as he is a superb talent. In the Amkar attack, Bulgarian international Georgi Peev and Sergei Volkov are crucial to their success.

Report to follow the match along with the rest of the Russian Premier League.