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Baltika Kaliningrad — Rubin Kazan 1:1

Baltika Kaliningrad
1:1
Rubin Kazan
RPL · 24 Aug 2026 · season 2026/27

The score says how it ended. xG says how it should have ended: it is the sum of the chances each shot was worth, not an opinion about the game.

Score1:1
Home xG0.70Baltika Kaliningrad
Away xG0.82Rubin Kazan
Expected points1.21 : 1.42

Who deserved it

A fair draw: the xG gap is only 0.12.

The numbers

TeamGoalsxGGoals − xGExpected points
Baltika Kaliningrad10.70+0.31.21
Rubin Kazan10.82+0.21.42

Goals

MinuteGoalTeamShot xGAssist
7'Jacques SiweRubin Kazan0.34Ilya Rozhkov
93'Sergey VaratynovBaltika Kaliningrad0.15Vladislav Pospelov

Key chances

MinutePlayerTeamxGOutcome
7'Jacques SiweRubin Kazan0.34goal
93'Sergey VaratynovBaltika Kaliningrad0.15goal, header, from a set piece
11'Jakhongir UrozovRubin Kazan0.10off target, header, from a corner

Shots: Baltika Kaliningrad 17, Rubin Kazan 10; big chances (xG 0.3 and above): 0 and 1.

How the game went

In the first half xG was Baltika Kaliningrad 0.10, Rubin Kazan 0.72: a small edge for Rubin Kazan. In the second half xG was Baltika Kaliningrad 0.59, Rubin Kazan 0.11: a small edge for Baltika Kaliningrad. The edge in chances passed from Rubin Kazan to Baltika Kaliningrad.

Shot data: Understat. xG rates the quality of a chance; it is not a forecast of the result.

How it fits the season

Baltika Kaliningrad: −6.1 for the season (9 in the table). Rubin Kazan: +2.1 (8). The gap between points and xPTS is built from matches like this one.

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