Spartak Kostroma drew 2-2 with Yenisei in the first league regular season on Saturday. The match finished level after both sides traded goals throughout the ninety minutes. And here's the thing, the result keeps Spartak in sixth place while Yenisei remain in twelfth.
A. Kalmykov opened the scoring in the twelfth minute for the hosts. Yenisei responded through A. Maslovskiy who found the net in the thirty-second period. The first half ended with both teams level after those early exchanges.
The second half brought more activity. A. Kalmykov restored Spartak's lead in the fifty-eighth minute with his second goal of the afternoon. Yenisei made changes including M. Oparin in the sixty-first minute, then A. Okladnikov came on in the seventieth.
By then, Yenisei had found a way back into it. M. Tlekhugov scored in the eighty-first minute to level matters. N. Shershov replaced someone in the same period as the goal. Spartak suffered a yellow card for Y. Tses in the seventieth-fourth minute, while A. Kanaplin received one in stoppage time.
The statistics showed Yenisei dominated possession at 0.6 compared to Spartak's 0.4. The visitors had nine corners to the hosts' single corner. Spartak registered five shots off target and three on target, while Yenisei managed three off target and two on target.
Spartak sit in sixth place with eighteen points from nine games. Their recent form includes a 2-0 win over PFc Sochi and a 3-1 victory against Kamaz. Yenisei occupy twelfth place with ten points and have won just two of their nine matches so far.