On Wednesday March 18 Dinamo Tbilisi will play Umaghlesi Liga XX round match at Dinamo Arena against FC Metalurg Rustavi. The match will start at 17:00. Traditionally official web-page of our team will offer text and video live of the match.
Our Rival
FC Metalurg Rustavi was established in 1948. The club has changed its title for several times during its history. After 2011 Rustavi football club plays with initial name. It plays home matches at Poladi stadium which is for 6 200 spectators. The main symbols of the club are in red and white colors. FC Metalurg Rustavi became champion of Georgia twice in 2006/2007 and 2009/2010 seasons. In 2007 the club won Georgian Super Cup.
Coach and Metalurg
Varlam Kilasonia was appointed as the head coach of FC Metalurg Rustavi after the first stage of the last season. The team played 19 matches in the current season under his leadership and is on the eighth place with 24 points.
Before the match…
Metalurg prepared in winter in Georgia. It defeated Dila -2:0, GTU-1:0 in sparring matches. After that our rival won against Meshakhte-2:1, Algeti-3:0, lost with Zestafoni-0:2. Metalurg played draw in the first leg of Georgian Cup with Chikhura-0:0. After that was three loses in championship-Dinamo Batumi-0:2, Zugdidi-0:1 and with Guria with the same score. In the second leg our rival lost with Chikhura with the score 3:0 and played draw -0:0 with Chikhura in the last round of national championship.
Dinamo VS Metalurg-Head to head
Dinamo Tbilisi has competed with FC Metalurg Rustavi for 51 times in national championship. From these matches our team has won for 31 times, lost 10 matches and 10 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 98/41 in favor of Dinamo.
On June 3, 1993 Dinamo Tbilisi defeated FC Gorda Rustavi with the score 12:4. The most popular result of these teams is 2:0. 9 matches finished with such score and all in favor of Dinamo.
For the last time Dinamo Tbilisi and Metalurg Rustavi have competed with each other was on September 11, 2014. The match held at Poladi stadium finished with the victory of our rival-3:0.
Disqualified footballers
Metalurg footballer Revaz Baramidze will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.
Dinamo VS Metalurg-Referee
Irakli Kvirikashvili will judge national championship XX round match between Dinamo Tbilisi and Metalurg Rustavi. D. Chigogidze and Z. Berulava will be his assistants. G. Avazashvili will be the fourth official.
The last match Irakli Kvirikashvili judged with the participation of our team took place on November 6, 2014. Our team lost with Dinamo Batumi-0:1. Kvirikashvili showed three yellow cards.
The last match he judged was Sasko 1:0 Adeli in Pirveli Liga. Kvirikashvili showed three yellow cards in this match.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Irakli Kvirikashvili
Date of birth: September 30, 1984
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Umaglesi Liga - 8 matches / 45 yellow cards / 3 red cards / 1 penalty
Pirveli Liga – 73 matches / 268 yellow cards / 11 red card / 24 penalties
Meore Liga – 31 matches / 109 yellow cards / 11 red card / 8 penalties
Georgian Cup – 7 matches / 28 yellow cards / 1 red card/ 4 penalties
Presumable lineup of FC Metalurg
We suppose that tomorrow FC Metalurg will play with the following lineup:
Bediashvili-Khizaneishvili, Nozadze, Narimanidze, Sarishvili-Stepniashvili, Beruashvili, Kilasonia, Mikautadze-Barabadze, Jokhadze