Gameday in Yekaterinburg for the round 3 between Ural & Krasnodar.

Ural will be without Shatov & Vycheslav injured. Goglichidze is suspended.

On their side Krasnodar will be without Chernikov suspended. Pantaleao is injured. Sorokin & Krivtsov are doubtful.

Ural started the season with two losses, they were totally dominated against CSKA and lost 2-0. Against Orenburg it was the same thing and they lost 3-0.

Krasnodar on their side made a bad draw against Fakel where they had to lead 2-0 before HT and slowly they played more relax. Against Spartak they lost 1-4 but they were playing better until they got the red card of Chernikov.

I’m confident on this game to go on Krasnodar DNB even if they show that they still have problems defensively but in the midfield I rate their players much stronger. Ramirez will be able to get minutes on this game. Krasnodar’s coach was unhappy about the performance of Akhmetov & Shapi so likely they will be benched for this game.

Coach mentioned that in front he is satisfied by the trio Cordoba-Ionov-Spertsyan.

Some rumour about Cordoba to Dortmund but until now there is no negotiation between both teams so I doubt he will not start.

For me clearly Ural is one of the weakest team in Russia with Torpedo & Fakel, in front they are in big trouble with Bicfalvi alone. They got only 0,62 xG in this early of season.

I expect a close game here and I expect 0-1 or 1-1.