On August 7 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Chikhura Sachkhere in 28th national championship 1st round match. The match at Ivantsminda central stadium will start at 17:30 and official web-page will offer text and video 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 as well.
Before Dinamo…
FC Chikhura finished 27th national championship on 4th place. It played on Europa League first qualifying round and lost with FC Zimbru Chișinău. (1:0 in Chișinău and 3:2 in Tbilisi. )
Chikhura- Dinamo
Dinamo and Chikhura have played 14 matches against each other in national championship. Our team has defeated FC Chikhura for 9 times, lost twice and 3 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.
For the last time these teams competed on April 16, 2016 in Ivantsminda. Our team lost with minimal score 1:0.
Chikhura- Dinamo | Referee
Giorgi Kruashvili will judge 28th national championship Iround match between Dinamo and Chikhura. G.Elikashvili and L.Todria will be his assistants. D. Kharitonashvili and G.Dograshvili will be additional assistants. A. Baslehlo will be the fourth official.
The last match Giorgi Kruashvili judged was held on July 21- Locomotive Zagreb 3:0 Rops on Europa League. Kruashvili booked 3 players and sent off two of them.
For the last time Giorgi Kruashvili judged the match with the participation of our team was Dinamo 1:0 Sioni on May 18, 2016 in Georgian Cup final. He showed 7 yellow and 1 red cards in this match.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Giorgi Kruashvili
Date of birth: May 29, 1986
===========================================
Umaghlesi Liga – 58 matches / 231 yellow cards / 10 red cards / 13 penalties
Pirveli Liga – 28 matches / 84 yellow cards / 12 red cards / 7 penalties
Meore Liga-3 matches / 4 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
Georgian Cup – 10 matches / 32 yellow cards / 2 red card / 3 penalties
UEFA U17 Elite round - 4 matches / 11 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
UEFA U19 Champions League – 2 matches / 9 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
UEFA U21 qualifiers- 2 matches / 8 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
UEFA Europa League qualifiers - 2 matches / 11 yellow cards / 2 red cards / 0 penalties
UEFA Champions League qualifiers - 1 match / 3 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
Disqualified footballers
Nobody 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, Kakubava, Rekhviashvili, Chikvaidze – Grigalashvili, Lekvtadze, Dobrovolski, Koripadze – Tatanashvili, Ivanishvili