Match Report
The table gap was wide: 23 points between Metallurg Lipetsk (1st, 63 pts) and Krasnyy-SGAFKST (10th, 40 pts). Krasnyy-SGAFKST ranked just 47th in the league on five-round form despite their 10th table position. Per game in the league, Krasnyy-SGAFKST were scoring 1.33 and conceding 1.63, Metallurg Lipetsk 1.97 and 0.93, against a competition average of 1.47 goals per team per game.
Krasnyy-SGAFKST had banked 5 of the last 15 points on offer; Metallurg Lipetsk, 12.
The match was played at Stadion SGAFKST in Smolensk. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-0.


