17:00 Rostov – Kuban Krasnodar

Rostov, a team who won the Russian Cup last year and played in Europe League now is struck at bottom. However, they made three really nice additions: Defender granat who has played more than 6 years for Dynamo and two great strikers Dzhuyba (who has played in Rostov 2 years ago) and young Azmoun who both debuted in second half against Loko Moscow. For me that should solve the problems with scoring and having in mind the current situation in the table, I believe they could overpass all teams below Mordoviya.
Not much conclusions can be drawn from their preparation but they won all 4 games including 1-0 victory over BATE.
There is a new man in charge – Berdyev and according to russian expert @dron he is in quite good relationship with the players, especially with Bukharov.
Kuban were a really nice team under Gocharenko but now theya re living a downside with Kruchuk both for bad performance and feedback from fans. In preparation all meetings were against much weaker teams and well, they didn't whow superiority in any of them. First game of spring season was only a draw against Saransk and Ivelin Popov again got carded. He is really troublesome player and it's likely that he gets booked every now and then.
Small distance between Rostov and Krasnodar (250 km) and extremely shaky defence which Rostov showed prevent me for going with 7/10 under these odds. I believe they will show new face but it's too early to give them more credit imo. fair odds around 1.90 for dnb.