Akhmat vs Krasnodar on April 4: team uniforms, analytics and forecast for the 23rd round

The 2025/26 season of the Russian Premier League (RPL) is reaching the finish line - the teams will have to play the remaining eight rounds of the championship, and the intrigue in the fight for the championship title and maintaining registration in the league is only heating up. One of the central signs of the tour will be the meeting of the Grozny football club (FC) Akhmat with the leading Krasnodar. Both teams are steadily gaining points after the winter break and are clearly not going to interrupt their successful streak. This game is extremely important for Krasnodar, which is only one point ahead of Zenit St. Petersburg. All the details are in the Izvestia article.

Form of commands

In the last five games, Akhmat, led by Stanislav Cherchesov, became the only team that did not lose a single match in the RPL: three wins and two draws. The most successful matches for Grozny were against CSKA Moscow, in which Akhmat won a 1-0 home victory thanks to a goal from striker Maxim Samorodov in the fourth minute, and a trip to Lokomotiv at the Russian Railways Arena, where Cherchesov's wards were able to hold on to a 2-2 draw, despite the fact that according to the results of the first half, they led 2-2. The Grozny team, being at the bottom of the standings in the first part of the season, was able to reverse the negative results and now occupies the eighth place with 30 points scored. The Akhmat coach also positively assessed the team's performances and added that serious work had been done at the winter training camp. At the same time, Cherchesov stressed that "I would like more," drawing attention to the missed three points in the matches with the Railwaymen and Akron from Tolyatti.

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The Bulls, in turn, scored 12 points out of a possible 15, losing only to Rubin Kazan on the road in the 20th round. At the same time, the "black and green" defeated "Pari Nizhny Novgorod" with a final result of 5:0, and also defeated "Rostov" by Jonathan Alba (2:1) in the southern derby. In addition, Musayev's team is not only the leader of the table in points scored (49), but also scored 47 goals in all meetings, losing by one goal only to Moscow Lokomotiv. In the final games of the season, it will be crucial for Krasnodar to score the maximum number of points in order to defend the championship. Former coach of the Russian national team Miroslav Romashchenko called the "black and green" favorites of the fight for gold medals and stressed that the team has a trump card - striker John Cordoba.

Match scenario, game forecasts

Both teams are approaching the meeting in good shape and optimal conditions. However, the pause for the matches of the national teams made adjustments to the Krasnodar club: the captain of the Bulls, the best assistant (14) and one of the leading scorers of the tournament (11) Eduard Spertsyan was injured at the disposal of the Armenian team. At the same time, Krasnodar has a tough calendar ahead — Akhmat and Zenit are in the RPL, with a cup meeting with Dynamo between them, Sport-Express notes. It is difficult to identify the main favorite in the match, since it is not known in what conditions the players will return from the national teams, and the away match in Grozny will not be an easy "walk" for Krasnodar.

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