Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Mykolaiv 8th with 30 points, Krystal 15th with 9, 21 apart. On recent form Mykolaiv sat only 13th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 8th overall. Per game in the league, Mykolaiv were scoring 2.06 and conceding 1.41, Krystal 0.95 and 1.8, against a competition average of 1.44 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Krystal — three in succession.
With 31 matches recorded and 2.3 yellow cards per game, I. Salash was the man in the middle. Mykolaiv led 2-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 2-1.