Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Dinamo Moskva II 1st with 70 points, Zvezda Sint Petersburg 16th with 8, 62 apart. Per game in the league, Dinamo Moskva II were scoring 2.2 and conceding 0.93, Zvezda Sint Petersburg 0.8 and 2.67, against a competition average of 1.49 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Dinamo Moskva II, winners of their last seven, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Zvezda Sint Petersburg entered with seven losses in a row. The last-five ledger: Dinamo Moskva II 15/15, Zvezda Sint Petersburg 0/15.
UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo, capacity 8,500, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 1-1 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 4-1.
Goal scorers
Dinamo Moskva II: Dmitriy Aleksandrov (8'), Denis Bokov (60'), Richard Golovachev (68'), Denis Simonov (76') · Zvezda Sint Petersburg: Roni Mikhailovskii (29')