Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Tyumen 1st with 60 points, Novosibirsk 5th with 34, 26 apart. On recent form Novosibirsk sat only 15th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Per game in the league, Novosibirsk were scoring 5.8 and conceding 6.6, Tyumen 11.6 and 3.6, against a competition average of 2.25 goals per team per game.
Defeat had not touched Tyumen in 13 games, having scored in 13 consecutive games.
The venue was Stadion Spartak in Novosibirsk, with room for 12,500 spectators. Tyumen led 2-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-2.