Lokomotiv is the current bronze medalist of the Russian championship, although there are almost no foreigners among the railway workers, and the team leaders are quite young. Central defender Georgy Dzhikiya, who came in the offseason, should add experience. The hosts are doing well in the off-season and haven't missed a beat so far. At the beginning of the pre-season, the opponents were weaker - Rodina (0:0), Znamya Truda (8:0) and Spartak Kostroma (2:0). In the last match, we already managed to confidently beat Spartak Moscow (2:0).
After the first half of the previous season, CSKA Moscow was among the contenders for the championship, but then a prolonged decline began in the team's game, which led to the resignation of head coach Fabio Celestini. The army decided not to look for an experienced specialist, but to give Dmitry Igdisamov, who worked with the youth team, a chance. He performed well and led CSKA to a fifth-place finish. The red and blue are only two points behind the third place, which went to today's opponent. The guests have not won in friendly matches yet. On July 11, there were two matches with Orenburg - first a 0:2 defeat, and then a 2:2 draw.
CSKA looks very weak in friendly matches. They failed to beat Shinnik and Tula Arsenal from the First League, Orenburg also did not lose to the army team. The results of the sparring sessions don't mean much, but it's hard to expect success from the guests in a friendly match with Lokomotiv, besides, Loko is just achieving excellent results in the preseason. We consider the hosts to be the favorite of the match.
Our betting tip is an Asian handicap (0) for a Locomotive in 1.85
The bet is an accurate score of 2:0
Two of the last three matches of the hosts ended with this score
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Lokomotiv hasn't missed any games in the offseason yet.
Markus Gisdol's Lokomotiv will play Marko Nikolic's CSKA at home tomorrow — it's a friendly match. The hosts have not lost five matches in a row, they won four of them. The visitors have two wins, two draws and one loss in the same period.
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