Ufa beat Yenisei 3-1 in the First League on Saturday, a result that keeps the hosts in seventh place and moves them four points clear of the visitors. The sides met in regular season round eight at the Ufa stadium, where the home side took advantage of a disciplinary lapse to pull away after the interval. To be fair, Yenisei had not looked vulnerable until Shershov received his second booking and was sent off.
The turning point came in the forty-first minute when Nikita Shershov collected his second yellow card and was shown red by the referee. Three Yenisei players came off together at half-time, and the home side seized the opening immediately. Zaur Tarba scored in the forty-seventh minute, a return to form for the attacker who had been quiet in recent outings.
Ufa continued to press after the break. Magomed Yakuev added a second goal in the fifty-seventh minute, and Yenisei had little to show for their possession. The visitors did earn a penalty in the sixty-third minute, which Andrea Chukanov converted, but the reply only deepened the sense that the game was slipping away.
Dilan Ortíz made it three in the sixty-fifth minute, and by then Yenisei were chasing shadows. Ufa had ten shots on target to six, and the difference was not just in the numbers. The home side controlled the tempo and did not allow the visitors to settle into any rhythm.
And here's the thing about this result — it extends Ufa's unbeaten run to four matches across all competitions. They had drawn twice and won once before Saturday, and the win against a side with fewer points feels like momentum building. Yenisei remain in eleventh place, one point above the drop zone if the table were cut there today.