On Saturday, October 1 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Chikhura Sachkhere in 28th national championship 8th round match. The match will start at 18:00 at Dinamo Arena and Dinamo official website will offer live of the match.
Our rival
FC Chikhura Sachkhere was established in 1938. The main symbols of the club are in yellow and blue colors. Our rival plays home match at Sachkhere central stadium which is for 2000 spectators. FC Chikhura returned to Umaghlesi Liga after 5 years pause in 2012/2013 season. The team showed its best result in the last season when it finished the championship on the third place. On Georgian Cup FC Chikhura competed with our team in the final match and got silver medals. After being on the third place in the time-table of national championship and taking the second place on Georgian Cup, our rival was given chance to play on UEFA Europa League 1st qualifying round. In the 1st qualifying round it overcame FC Turnovo Macedonia – 1:0 and 3:1. In the 2ndqualifying round the matches with Turkish FC Bursaspor finished without goals. Our rival won in penalties. In the 3rd round the match with FC Neftchi in Baku finished with draw-0:0. The match in Tbilisi finished with Neftchi’s victory-3:2. Our rival finished the last season on fourth place with 57 points. It played on Europa League first qualifying round and lost with FC Zimbru Chișinău.
Coach and FC Chikhura
Soso Pruidze has been the head coach of FC Chikhura since 2008. With his team achieved success in Pirveli Liga and moved to Umaghlesi Liga. After his 6 year work Soso Pruidze created the team into the force which must be taken into consideration in Georgian football elite. FC Chikhura successfully played in 2013/2014 season in national championship and on Georgian Cup as well. It won Georgian Super Cup. It played well on Euro arena twice. Soso Pruidze’s team leads the table with 13 points.
Before Dinamo…
FC Chikhura started 28th national championship with draw against our team-0:0. Then were victories with FC Shukura Kobuleti 3:1, FC Locomotive Tbilisi 3:2 and FC Torpedo Kutaisi 3:0. After that our rival lost with FC Guria 1:2 and defeated FC Kolkheti Khobi 3:1 on Georgian Cup and FC Tskhinvali 2:1 in the last round of championship.
Dinamo - Chikhura | Head to head
Dinamo and Chikhura have played 15 matches against each other in national championship. Our team has defeated FC Chikhura for 9 times, lost twice and 4 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 37/10 in favor of our team.
On November 18, 2006 Dinamo defeated the rival with the score 3:1. Khutsishvili, Iashvili and Tavberidze (auto goal) scored. On May 16, 2007 our team won with the score 5:0. Peikrishvili, Iashvili, Merebashvili, Khutsishvili and Guram Kashia scored in this match. The third match between these teams took place on September 26, 2012 in Sachkhere and finished without goals. On December 2 our team defeated Chikhura at Dinamo Arena with the score 5:2. Xisco performed hattrick in this match. Besides him Alvaro and Jaba Dvali scored. On April 6 Dnamo scored 3 unanswered goals I the fifth match against FC Chikhura. Xisco scored 2 goals and Khmaladze scored the third one. The next match between these teams took place in Sachkhere and finished with the victory of our team-4:2. Grajciar, Xisco, Merebashvili and Coto scored. Our team hosted FC Chikhura at Dinamo Arena on October 20 in IX round match and defeated it with the score 6:1. Xisco performed hattrick in this match. Jaba Dvali performed double and Irakli Dzaria scored one goal in this match. On March 2 Zestafoni hosted the match between these teams in which our team defeated the rival with the score 5:1. Xisco performed hattrick again. Besides him Merebashvili and Papunashvili also scored. The last match took place in Ivantsminda on April 4 and finished with draw 1:1. Otar Martsvaladze scored in this match. Last year the match between these teams was held at Dinamo Arena on May 7 and finished without goals. Last year on December 7 FC Chikhura defeated Dinamo for the first time in its history 1:0. Last year the match on May 22 the match finished with the victory of Dinamo 3:0. Giorgi Papunashvili, Lasha Totadze and Vakho Tchanturishvili scored. After that Dinamo hosted Chikhura on November 1. The match finished with the victory of host team-2:0. Otar Kiteishvili performed double. On April 16, 2016 our team lost with minimal score 1:0 in Ivantsminda.
For the last time these teams competed on August 7. The match in Ivantsminda finished without goals.
Dinamo - Chikhura | Referee
Lasha Silagava will judge the match between Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Chikhura. L. Todria and B. Tchitchinadze will be his assistants. D. Kharitonashvili and G. Kikacheishvili will be additional assistants. I. Kvirikashvili will be the fourth official.
The last match Lasha Silagava judged took place on September 28 in UEFA Youth League – Rostov 0:6 Eindhoven. Silagava showed 4 yellow cards.
The last match Lasha Silagava judged with the participation of our team took place on September 17, 2016 when our team competed with FC Locomotive. In the match that finished without goals Silagava booked 3 footballers.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Lasha Silagava
Date of birth: July 27, 1976
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Umaghlesi Liga-181 matches/626 yellow cards/29 red cards/28 penalties
Pirveli Liga-12 matches/42 yellow cards/0 red cards/6 penalties
Georgian Cup-30 matches/83 yellow cards/3 red cards/3 penalties
Georgian Super Cup-2 matches/6 yellow cards/1 red cards/0 penalties
UEFA Champions League qualifying-2 matches/7 yellow cards/0 red cards/1 penalties
UEFA Youth League - 5 matches/21 yellow cards/1 red cards/2penalties
UEFA Europa League qualifying- 6 matches/39 yellow cards/4 red cards/2 penalties
UEFA U21 qualifying-4 matches/8 yellow cards/0 red cards/0 penalties
UEFA U19 qualifying -6 matches/30 yellow cards/1 red cards/2 penalties
International Friendly Match-2 matches/11 yellow cards/0 red cards/1 penalties
FIFA World Cup qualifying-1 matches/7 yellow cards/0 red cards/0 penalties
Malta Championship -2 matches/11 yellow cards/1 red cards/0 penalties
Disqualified footballers
Dinamo’s Brazilian central defender Rene Santos will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.
Presumable lineup of FC Chikhura
We suppose that FC Chikhura will play with the following lineup:
Hamzic – Kashia, Grigalashvili, Rekhviashvili, Chikvaidze – Dekanoidze, Lekvtadze, Dobrovolski, Ganugrava – Tatanashvili, Gabedava