Match Report
The table gap was wide: 28 points between Krasnodar (10th, 41 pts) and Tambov (16th, 13 pts). Against a league average of 1.33 goals per team per game, Tambov ran at 0.63 scored and 2.17 conceded, Krasnodar at 1.73 and 1.5.
Tambov had gone 6 games without a win. The five-game form split read 1/15 points for Tambov against 7/15 for Krasnodar.
The match was played at Mordovia Arena in Saransk (capacity 41,685). The referee was P. Shadykhanov, with 46 matches in our database and 2.0 yellows per game on average. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Krasnodar led 1-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 0-4.