Match Report
18 points separated the sides: Tyumen 1st on 60, Irtysh 2nd on 42. On recent form Irtysh sat only 6th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Against a league average of 2.25 goals per team per game, Tyumen ran at 11.6 scored and 3.6 conceded, Irtysh at 1.5 and 0.77.
Tyumen carried a 10-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 10 consecutive games. Three consecutive wins preceded this game for Irtysh.
E. Galimov officiated: 56 games logged, averaging 1.1 yellow cards each. Stadion Geolog in Tyumen' staged the fixture, a ground that holds 13,057. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.