Lokomotiv Moscow – Rubin, Premier League Prediction

Lokomotiv Moscow had a lot of fluctuations during the season. We also saw their poor performance in the Champions League, but overall drop in form after the champion season was logical. Despite all this, Loko managed to recover and it turned out that the team held another strong campaign. They also have a match for the Cup after a few days, and in the Russian League they have to take several wins to enter directly into the Champions League groups.

Rubin need two points to be 100% sure that they will not play playoffs for survival in the Russian League, but that can happen without winning them, as long as Krylya does not win any match of the three remaining, and this seems highly possible, so Rubin really has nothing to fight for in practice. They always go defensive in their guest appearances, so they will now approach the same way.

Rubin has only one win as a guest in the league during the season, but the victory was really huge – over Zenit in December. A huge part of Rubin’s matches as a guest finished with draws for their approach. Lokomotiv Moscow are very strong hosts. They only have one loss at home during the league season. We think the game is much more important to Loko. They are the hosts and are the classiest team so they have to make a win. They are also in good shape. Prediction – Lokomotiv to win at 1.62.