Match Report
The table gap was wide: 33 points between Aktobe (3rd, 43 pts) and Shakhter Karagandy (13th, 10 pts). Against a league average of 1.18 goals per team per game, Shakhter Karagandy ran at 0.5 scored and 1.88 conceded, Aktobe at 1.63 and 1.08.
A win had eluded Shakhter Karagandy for 15 matches. Shakhter Karagandy had banked 1 of the last 15 points on offer; Aktobe, 9.
The head-to-head ledger counts 39 games: 11 Shakhter Karagandy wins, 22 for Aktobe, 6 draws, at 2.26 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Stadion Shakhter in Karagandy staged the fixture, a ground that holds 6,300. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Aktobe led 1-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 1-3.
Goal scorers
Shakhter Karagandy: Imeda Ashortia (52') · Aktobe: Amadou Doumbouya (23'), Arman Kenesov (55'), Arman Kenesov (60')




