Match Report
The table gap was wide: 38 points between Krasnodar (1st, 67 pts) and Khimki (12th, 29 pts). Against a league average of 1.35 goals per team per game, Khimki ran at 1.17 scored and 1.87 conceded, Krasnodar at 1.97 and 0.77.
The last-five ledger: Khimki 4/15, Krasnodar 10/15.
6 meetings are on record — 2 won by Khimki, 2 by Krasnodar, 2 drawn, at 2.33 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 67% of the meetings went to the host. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Arena Khimki in Khimki staged the fixture, a ground that holds 18,636. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 4 second-half goals set the final 2-2.
Goal scorers
Khimki: Lucas Vera (90'), Aleksandr Rudenko (84') · Krasnodar: Yuri Gazinskiy (86'), João Batxi (46')