Kamaz and Chelyabinsk played out a 1-1 draw in the First League's Regular Season round 11 on Monday. The match ended with two goals in stoppage time, leaving both sides with a point each as they sit in the lower half of the table.
Maksim Laykin pulled the strings for Kamaz with a penalty in the 91st minute. To be fair, Ramazan Gadzhimuradov refused to go away for Chelyabinsk and found the net just three minutes later. By then, the match had already thrown up enough to keep anyone watching.
There were no early answers from either side as the game settled into a pattern. Kamaz kept knocking on the door with eight shots off target and six on target, while Chelyabinsk held a high line but could only manage three shots off target and one on target. The hosts had more possession at 48 per cent, but the visitors controlled 52 per cent of the ball.
The statistics tell a story of chances going begging. Kamaz had four corners to Chelyabinsk's three, and both sides picked up two yellow cards each. Denis Pokotylo, Roman Zashchepkin, Evgeniy Voronin and Khetag Kochiev saw the cards fly, with the latter arriving in the 90th minute.
Kamaz sit 17th with 11 games played, one win, three draws and seven losses for six points. Chelyabinsk are 15th after 10 matches, with two wins, two draws and six losses yielding eight points. The result ends Chelyabinsk's recent run of form that included a 2-0 victory over Dynamo Barnaul.
We had backed Kamaz to win with 47 per cent confidence, but the match went another way entirely. The visitors found their equaliser when most expected the hosts to close out the game, and that shift in momentum left the prediction wrong.