Sochi — Nizhny Novgorod 0:1, 5 September: match result

match finished Russian First League · Matchday 10 Saturday 5 September · 16:00 UTC

Sochi 3th · 19 pts LLWWW

0 : 1 1st half 0:0

Nizhny Novgorod 1th · 25 pts WWWWW

Fisht Olympic Stadium · referee V. Moldovan

Match predictionValue

Nizhny Novgorod under 2.5 goals

89% · Nizhny Novgorod games average 4.1 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Nizhny Novgorod under 2.5 goals”, and the match finished 0:1.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Sochi 37% draw 26% Nizhny Novgorod 37%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Sochi win, and the match finished 0:1. Fans backed Sochi win — they got it wrong.

fans 48 votes

Sochi 46% draw 19% Nizhny Novgorod 35%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Kuzmin 19'

G. Popolitov for T. Komissarov 46'

I. Bober for V. Sarveli 68'

O. Kozhemyakin for M. Kuzmin 69'

Z. Fedorov for R. Sheydayev 69'

G. Popolitov 0-1 77'

V. Aleksandrov for A. Sokolov 83'

G. Shilnikov for Y. Gudkov 83'

R. Pasevich for R. Magal 84'

R. Bart for M. Ignatov 84'

R. Evgenyev 89'

M. Kaynov for A. Soldatenkov 90+1'

S. Lapinsky for V. Grulev 90+4'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Sochi 3-4-1-2 · Igor Osinkin 4-2-3-1 · Vadim Garanin Nizhny Novgorod

Aleksandr Degtev  
Nemanja Stojić  4 Vyacheslav Litvinov  3 Aleksandr Soldatenkov  
Maksim Kuzmin  27 Kirill Zaika  28 Ruslan Magal  17 Artem Makarchuk  
Mikhail Ignatov  
Aleksandr Osipov  7 Ramil Sheydaev  

Vyacheslav Grulev  
Artem Sokolov  72 Timofey Komissarov  9 Vladislav Sarvelyi  
Andrey Ivlev  94 Artem Timofeev  
Yuriy Koledin  4 Roman Evgenyev  8 Mamadou Maiga  66 Yan Gudkov  
Nikita Medvedev  

Sochi bench

66Aleksandr Metsiev
85Daniil Silev
12Igor Kalinin
18Maksim Kaynov
33Marcelo Alves
60Mark Nosatiy
39Matvey Lantrat
22Oleg Kozhemyakin
11Pavel Meleshin
97Roman Pasevich
59Ruslan Bart
9Zakhar Fedorov

Nizhny Novgorod bench

10Adrián Balboa
69Artem Sidorenko
30Gleb Popolitov
17Gleb Shilnikov
98Islam Imamov
17Ivan Bober
29Luka Tičić
81Nikita Generalov
22Nikita Kakkoev
78Nikolay Kalinskiy
80Valeriy Tsarukyan
2Viktor Aleksandrov

How the match went

text generated from our data

Sochi and Nizhny Novgorod met on matchday 10 of the Russian First League on 5 September at Fisht Olympic Stadium. Final score — 0:1.

Sochi sit 3th on 19 points after 17 matches (10 wins, 2 draws, 5 losses), 4 matches without conceding. Nizhny Novgorod sit 1th on 25 points after 16 matches (14 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss), unbeaten in 9 matches, 6 matches without conceding.

Of the last 2 meetings Sochi won 1, Nizhny Novgorod won 1. Aggregate score — 3:3.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Sochi last five Nizhny Novgorod

LLWWW form WWWWW

17 Matches 16

10 — 2 — 5 Wins — draws — defeats 14 — 1 — 1

26 — 20 Scored — conceded 48 — 15

1.88 Points per game 2.69

1.53 Goals scored per game 3

4 Clean sheets 6

4 Failed to score 0

winless in 2 Current streak unbeaten in 9

Sochi at home: 8 matches, 4 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses, goals 10—7, 1.63 points per match.

Nizhny Novgorod away: 8 matches, 7 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 15—8, 2.63 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

1 Sochi win 0 draws 1 Nizhny Novgorod win goals 3:3 Sochi — Nizhny Novgorod

07/03/2026	Nizhny Novgorod — Sochi	2:1	Russian Premier League
05/10/2025	Sochi — Nizhny Novgorod	2:1	Russian Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Nizhny Novgorod	16	14	1	1	48—15	43
2	Ural	17	10	4	3	29—11	34
3	Sochi	17	10	2	5	26—20	32
4	Torpedo Moskva	17	9	5	3	29—13	32
5	Spartak Kostroma	16	8	4	4	22—16	28
6	Veles	17	8	4	5	21—20	28

Full Russian First League table