Lokomotiv Moscow @ Luch-Energiya Vladivostok match preview

By: j | September 19th, 2008

This is a fascinating match simply because while Luch-Energiya is perilously close to relegation, many clubs find the their efforts in Vladivostok fall short. By all accounts this should be Lokomotiv’s day but can they overcome the problems that so many have faced.

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Luch-Energiya Vladivostok – combined (1 W, 2 D, 2 L)(5 GS, 8 GA)
Aug 9 Shinnik Yaroslav 1 – 2 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
Aug 16 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 0 – 0 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Aug 24 Saturn Moscow Oblast 2 – 1 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
Aug 31 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 1 – 1 Terek Grozny
Sep 14 CSKA Moscow 4 – 1 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok

Luch-Energiya Vladivostok – home (1 W, 4 D, L)(3 GS, 2 GA)
Jul 16 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 0 – 0 Zenit St Petersburg
Jul 20 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 1 – 0 Dinamo Moscow
Aug 3 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 1 – 1 Rubin Kazan
Aug 16 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 0 – 0 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Aug 31 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok 1 – 1 Terek Grozny

Lokomotiv Moscow – combined ( 1 W, 1 D, 3 L)( 2 GS, 6 GA)
Aug 9 Samara Kryliya Sovetov 2 – 0 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 16 Lokomotiv Moscow 0 – 0 Saturn Moscow
Aug 23 Terek Grozny 2 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 30 Lokomotiv Moscow 0 – 2 CSKA Moscow
Sep 14 Spartak Nalchik 0 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow

Lokomotiv Moscow – away (2 W, 1 D, 2 L)(6 GS, 3 GA)
Jul 23 Zenit St Petersburg 1 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow
Jul 27 FC Moscow 0 – 3 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 9 Samara Kryliya Sovetov 2 – 0 Lokomotiv Moscow
Aug 23 Terek Grozny 2 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow
Sep 14 Spartak Nalchik 0 – 1 Lokomotiv Moscow

Repeating my earlier comments, this should be Lokomotiv’s match as they are a significantly better club. With pedigree the likes of Russian capped Dmitri Sychev, Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Dmitri Sennikov, Renat Yanbayev and Dmitri Torbinski, Romanian striker Răzvan Cociş and Serbia’s Marko Baša how this club isn’t challenging for the upper reaches of the table is a bit of a mystery. Truthfully, I would like to see them make it to European competition purely from the standpoint of watching good Football but they will need to overcome Luch-Energiya’s home fortress in Vladivostok. Of recent the best in the league have fallen short, so this makes this a fascinating match to watch.