Match Report
10 points and 5 places separated them: Avangard Kursk 13th with 29, Mordovia Saransk 18th with 19. Per game in the league, Avangard Kursk were scoring 1.07 and conceding 1.44, Mordovia Saransk 0.78 and 1.63, against a competition average of 1.2 goals per team per game.
6 games without a win framed Avangard Kursk's arrival. Mordovia Saransk had gone 5 games without a win.
4 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Avangard Kursk 3, draws 1, Mordovia Saransk 0, at 2.5 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 25% of meetings won. Historically tight: 25% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
The match was played at Stadion Trudovye Reservy in Kursk (capacity 11,329). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.
Goal scorers
Avangard Kursk: Kirill Gotsuk (19'), Roman Minaev (77') · Mordovia Saransk: D. Buranov (85'), D. Poyarkov (31')
Key stats
Possession: Avangard Kursk 52% · Mordovia Saransk 48% · On target: 5-8 · Corners: 4-6