Dynamo Makhachkala – Rostov

The motivated hosts will defeat Rostov-on-Don

The season-ending match between Dinamo Makhachkala and Rostov will take place in Kaspiysk. Before the final game day of the Premier League, the teams are solving completely different tasks. For the hosts the most important priority for the upcoming meeting is to achieve a winning result. Now Dynamo occupy the last safe line in the standings - the twelfth. The team is within reach of Pari NN (one point behind) and Akhmat (three points behind). If it is hard to believe in the victory of the Grozny club in St. Petersburg, Pari NN will be enough and a draw with CSKA in case of defeat of Dinamo Makhachkala. The Nizhny Novgorodians have an advantage in head-to-head meetings, which will allow them to beat their rival in case of equal points. Rostov, on the other hand, is completely devoid of tournament motivation. The team will not move from its eighth place, even in the case of a final tie with Akron, which is now three points behind. The Rostov team's unconditional priority is to keep their players healthy, who on the first day of June will play the most important match of the season - the Superfinal of the Russian Cup. Bookmakers have identified the home team as the favourites for the upcoming meeting, offering odds of 1.92 on their victory. Dinamo Makhachkala, for all the modesty of recent results, is quite a strong and persistent team. After defeating Spartak Moscow, the Makhachkala club have lost four times, but eyewitnesses of defeats to Krasnodar and Zenit will definitely say that Dinamo had every chance to take points away from the title challengers. Last round, the Dagestani side struggled against Akhmat in Grozny and counterattacked so much that they miraculously failed to score more than one goal. Rostov this season has led the existence of a rather ordinary middle of the division without prospects of fighting for high positions and risks to be in the relegation zone. In the Cup of Russia, the Yellow-Blues didn't shine much either, even managing to get knocked out of the main draw by Zenit. However, Rostov managed to make two trips to Moscow for victories over Lokomotiv Moscow and Spartak Moscow, which led to their advancement to the Superfinals. Of course, the match in Kaspiysk is not at all necessary for the guests. It is unlikely that Rostov's best players will take to the pitch. It is unlikely that those who will come out will fight for victory. The hosts will win the match of the last round.