Match Report
15 points separated the sides: Niva 1st on 51, Shakhtyor Soligorsk 8th on 36. Niva's recent output lagged their position: 7th on form over five rounds while 1st in the table. Against a league average of 1.6 goals per team per game, Shakhtyor Soligorsk ran at 1.96 scored and 1.72 conceded, Niva at 2.52 and 1.24.
Niva entered with four wins in a row, having scored in 11 consecutive games. Over the last five, Shakhtyor Soligorsk had taken 4 of 15 points to Niva's 12.
On the scoreboard, Niva led 4-1 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 2-6.
Goal scorers
Shakhtyor Soligorsk: Artem Kurbachev (17'), Ilya Sen (88') · Niva: Kirill Yankovskiy (1' og), Mikhail Gordeychuk (7'), Aleksandar Chizh (8' og), Dmitri Fedortsov (38'), Mikhail Gordeychuk (84'), Vladislav Dybin (90')
Key stats
On target: 4-18 · Corners: 4-3