Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Dinamo Minsk II 6th with 52 points, Shakhtyor Petrikov 15th with 31, 21 apart. Recent form told a different story for Dinamo Minsk II: only 10th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 6th. Scoring rates set the scale: Dinamo Minsk II 1.59 scored and 1.15 conceded per game, Shakhtyor Petrikov 0.97 and 1.79, with the league averaging 1.44.
The five-game form split read 10/15 points for Dinamo Minsk II against 4/15 for Shakhtyor Petrikov.
With 17 matches recorded and 2.1 yellow cards per game, D. Zhakhovskiy was the man in the middle. The venue was Stadyen Dynama-Juni in Minsk, with room for 22,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Shakhtyor Petrikov led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-1 the final score.