Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Dinamo Vladivostok 1st with 63 points, Sakhalin 7th with 42, 21 apart. On recent form Dinamo Vladivostok sat only 6th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 1st overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Dinamo Vladivostok 1.5 scored and 0.61 conceded per game, Sakhalin 1.07 and 0.82, with the league averaging 1.27.
Sakhalin had not won in 8 games. Dinamo Vladivostok had banked 10 of the last 15 points on offer; Sakhalin, 3.
On the scoreboard, Dinamo Vladivostok led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.
Goal scorers
Dinamo Vladivostok: Viktor Kiselev (37')