Match Report
54 points for Kompozit (3rd), 42 for Sakhalin (7th): a 12-point gap. On recent form Kompozit sat only 10th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Against a league average of 1.27 goals per team per game, Kompozit ran at 2.11 scored and 1.43 conceded, Sakhalin at 1.07 and 0.82.
Sakhalin had been beaten in three straight games. Kompozit had banked 8 of the last 15 points on offer; Sakhalin, 2.
The match was played at Sportkompleks Znamja Truda in Orekhovo-Zuyevo (capacity 2,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: Sakhalin led 1-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 2-2.