In this 20th week match, on Mon Mar 7th, Krasnodar hosts Ural in a clash of the Premier League. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 6 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. 6th placed Krasnodar is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against FC Nizhny Novgorod. Neither Krasnodar nor FC Nizhny Novgorod could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 16 and 5 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Krasnodar is looking for direction having earned 16 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 12th placed Ural, recorded a 0-1 loss against FC Nizhny Novgorod. Nikolay Kalinsky struck first for FC Nizhny Novgorod in the 78th minute on a penalty kick, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Ural was frustrated by FC Nizhny Novgorod’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. FC Nizhny Novgorod ended the match with the shutout victory. Ural is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, Krasnodar won by a score of 3 to 0 in front of a crowd of just over zero thousand spectators. Tonny Vilhena scored the first goal for Krasnodar in the 62nd minute, then Tonny Vilhena added another in the 85th minute In the end, Ural couldn’t muster any offence and Krasnodar ran away with the shutout win.
Both Rafał Augustyniak and Ramazan Gadzhimuradov have been the hottest scorers for Ural in the last 5 each having scored 2 goals each. Krasnodar’s most prolific scorer has been Claesson. The Swedish midfielder has netted 3 goals over the last five matches.