Match Report
3 points and 1 places separated them: Nart Cherkessk 6th with 31, Rubin Yalta 5th with 34. On the form table Rubin Yalta stood 1st over the last five rounds, despite being 5th overall. Per game in the league, Nart Cherkessk were scoring 1.29 and conceding 0.9, Rubin Yalta 1.43 and 1.05, against a competition average of 1.37 goals per team per game.
Rubin Yalta were unbeaten in 5, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 3 Nart Cherkessk wins, 2 for Rubin Yalta, 0 draws, at 2.4 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more.
On the scoreboard, Rubin Yalta led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-1 the final score.
Goal scorers
Rubin Yalta: E. Biryukov (39')