Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Tyumen 1st with 60 points, Khimik-Avgust 3rd with 24, 36 apart. Against a league average of 2.25 goals per team per game, Tyumen ran at 11.6 scored and 3.6 conceded, Khimik-Avgust at 4.4 and 4.2.
Tyumen's unbeaten run stood at 8, having scored in 8 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Tyumen 13/15, Khimik-Avgust 3/15.
The match was played at Stadion Geolog in Tyumen' (capacity 13,057). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 2-1.