Salavat Yulaev met Khabarovsk in a club friendly on 28 August 2026, and the visitors took the match 3:2. The scoreline mirrors their meeting just eight days earlier, when the hosts fell 2:3 at home.
These two sides have been crossing paths more than most. On 20 August they played each other twice in as many days — Salavat lost 2:3, then Khabarovsk won 3:2 the same evening. By then, both teams had already been through a busy pre-season window, with matches against Lada, Barys and Nizhnekamsk scattered across the previous week.
Khabarovsk's run of form has been notably sharp. They beat Barys 5:1 on 18 August and saw off Lada 5:0 two days before that, before the Salavat fixture. Salavat's August has been mixed — a 4:1 victory over Barys, but also a 3:6 defeat to Lada. The old head settled them down in the end, but the draw brought them together early and the result spoke for itself.
The friendly doesn't shift any table positions, but it extends Khabarovsk's momentum and leaves Salavat with questions to answer. Things came to a head in the final moments, and the visitors held their nerve. That third straight win away from home in August gives them something to build on.