Match Report
The table gap was wide: 21 points between Ural (12th, 34 pts) and Tambov (16th, 13 pts). Per game in the league, Tambov were scoring 0.63 and conceding 2.17, Ural 0.87 and 1.2, against a competition average of 1.33 goals per team per game.
Tambov entered with three losses in a row. Ural carried an 8-game unbeaten run into this. Over the last five, Tambov had taken 6 of 15 points to Ural's 13.
Mordovia Arena in Saransk, capacity 41,685, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.