Russia vs Kazakhstan
The top two residents of Group I began to leave other participants, one of them Russia. They will try to continue to increase the distance when challenged Kazakhstan in the sixth week of qualification. Clash was held at Kaliningrad Stadium.
Until the fifth week yesterday they had pocketed 12 points with 1 loss and 4 consecutive wins. Most recently, they just stole 1-2 scores from Scotland on Saturday (7/9). In fact, they left first before reversing the position through the equalizer Artem Dzyuba (40 ‘) and Stephen O’ Donell’s suicide (59 ‘).
On the one hand, Kazakhstan can only bring a draw from Cyprus. They had excelled quickly through Aleksey Shchotkin’s goal (2 ‘), but the hosts managed to catch up through the action of Pieros Sotiriou (39’). This result also holds them in third place by five points difference from Russia in second place.
The results also specifically made Kazakhstan have never won in the away match Group I. In the first task, they even lost 3-1 against Belgium. This trend is a bad feeling ahead of tomorrow’s visit because Russia managed to set an extraordinary record as a host with a score of 9-0 and 1-0 against San Marino and Cyprus. In closing, Russia also met with Kazakhstan in the second week, and managed to steal the score 0-4 as a guest team. These records have clearly made Russia the winner.
Our Prediction: 1
Odds: 1.18