Match Report
36 points separated the sides: Tyumen 1st on 60, Zenit Izhevsk 2nd on 24. On recent form Zenit Izhevsk sat only 20th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 2nd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Tyumen 11.6 scored and 3.6 conceded per game, Zenit Izhevsk 4.8 and 3.2, with the league averaging 2.25.
Momentum sat with Tyumen, winners of their last four, having scored in 7 consecutive games. Zenit Izhevsk had gone 9 games without a win. The five-game form split read 13/15 points for Tyumen against 1/15 for Zenit Izhevsk.
The match was played at Stadion Geolog in Tyumen' (capacity 13,057). Zenit Izhevsk led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 1-1 full-time score.




