- Team stat: Torpedo Moskva have scored 22 goals in 15 home matches this season in the FNL.
- Away form: FK Fakel Voronezh have averaged 1.07 goals scored and 0.80 goals conceded per away game.
- Head-to-head: Fakel have won both of the last two head-to-head meetings.
Tactical game expected in Moscow
Recent form and home record
Torpedo Moskva have posted mixed results from their last five games in the FNL 2025/2026 season, gaining two wins, two draws, and a defeat from their most recent five league matches. Oleg Kononov’s side drew 1-1 at home to Arsenal Tula, before claiming a 2-0 victory over KamAZ on home soil, and then losing by the same scoreline away to Ural in the next round.
The hosts have been solid, but unspectacular at home, where they have picked up six wins, four draws, and five defeats in their 15 fixtures this term in the FNL. Kononov has certainly brought a great tactical variety to Torpedo since taking charge back in October 2025, but his constant fiddling has arguably brought instability to the club, which is why they are sat 11th with 38 points from the same number of games as Fakel.
Tactics and key players
Torpedo’s preferred formation, when things have gone well for them this season, has been the 4-2-3-1, in which their wide players will try to catch their opponents off guard with quick transitions and their two number tens will look to press the ball to create space. Ruslan Apekov, a real goal poacher, has been the main man up front for Torpedo this term, hitting ten FNL goals in 25 appearances, but a lack of consistent performance has meant they have only scored 22 goals in 15 home games.
Fakel have the quality to edge it in the capital
Fakel Voronezh have been in mixed form themselves, with their last 5 games having returned two wins, a draw, and two defeats in the FNL 2025/2026, and they have been stronger on the road than at home. Fakel lost 2-0 away to Chayka and drew 2-2 at home to Shinnik Yaroslavl in their most recent two outings.
Fakel’s approach is more pragmatic, as Oleg Vasilenko has certainly drilled his side into the mould of a coherent unit that can play in any formation, deploy wide players, and press in unison to smother opponents. Pusi Belaidi, who is their main man up top, has hit 15 goals in 29 league games this campaign, but Maksim Turishchev has been on a hot streak recently, scoring three of Fakel’s last seven.
Visitors to take the points
Vasilenko returned to the helm of FK Fakel back in October 2025 and has been quietly working his magic since, with his side top of the FNL 2025/2026 on 60 points from their 30 games this year. Given their solid away form, which has seen them win two of their last three trips, and their dominance in the last two meetings between these two sides, we are backing the visitors to win at 2.83.
- The ‘Both Teams to Score - No’ market is priced at 1.71, which reflects a strong belief that at least one of these teams will come up short in the scoring department.
- ‘Under 2.5 goals’ at 1.54 looks likely, as these two clubs have strong enough defences to keep things tight and with Torpedo averaging 1.3 goals in four home head-to-heads and Fakel 1.0 as the away side, we are expecting a close game.
