Match Report
27 points separated the sides: Chelyabinsk 4th on 41, Nosta 5th on 14. The last five rounds placed Nosta no better than 24th for form, against 5th in the standings.
A win had eluded Nosta for 11 matches. The last-five ledger: Nosta 3/15, Chelyabinsk 9/15.
The head-to-head ledger counts 6 games: 1 Nosta win, 3 for Chelyabinsk, 2 draws, at 2.17 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Stadion Gazovik in Orenburg staged the fixture, a ground that holds 4,950. With 39 matches recorded and 1.2 yellow cards per game, S. Matveev was the man in the middle. On the scoreboard, Chelyabinsk led 2-1 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-2 the final score.