Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Arkadag 1st with 60 points, Aşgabat 7th with 15, 45 apart. Per game in the league, Arkadag were scoring 4.1 and conceding 0.6, Aşgabat 1.24 and 2.24, against a competition average of 1.65 goals per team per game.
Arkadag arrived on a run of 15 straight wins, having scored in 15 consecutive games. Aşgabat had gone 5 games without a win, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Arkadag had banked 15 of the last 15 points on offer; Aşgabat, 1.
11 meetings are on record — 11 won by Arkadag, 0 by Aşgabat, 0 drawn, at 5.45 goals per meeting. The fixture leans high-scoring: 82% of meetings brought at least three goals. Goals have dried up lately: 4.6 per game across the last five meetings, against 5.45 across the full history.