Arsenal Tula 1:0 Torpedo Moscow: Match Result

Match report

Arsenal Tula claimed a narrow 1:0 win over Torpedo Moscow in the fourth round of the First League on Saturday. The result lifts the hosts off the bottom of the table while Torpedo's run of solid form came to an end at the expense of a side that had lost their last two matches by a combined margin of six goals. The decisive moment arrived in the thirty-ninth minute when D. Penchikov found the net. Torpedo controlled the ball for most of the opening half but failed to test Arsenal's goalkeeper, and when the chance finally came, the home side made no mistake. To be fair, the visitors were creating more opportunities, but the scoreline reflected a single decisive moment rather than sustained pressure. The statistics tell the fuller story. Torpedo held sixty-seven per cent possession and registered five shots on target, yet only converted one corner and saw four attempts hit the woodwork or miss. Arsenal managed just one shot on target in total, and here's the thing — that was enough. The visitors ran the show without finishing the job, while the hosts were content to absorb pressure and punish them from a rare offensive burst. The game grew increasingly physical as Torpedo searched for an equaliser. Five yellow cards were shown to the visitors compared to one for Arsenal, with U. Ajibona and D. Shamkin both booked late in the contest. By then, the home side had seen the game out, making substitutions to manage the clock rather than chase a result. For Arsenal, who sat tenth before kickoff with twelve points from ten matches, this victory offers a response to the heavy defeat against Sochi. Torpedo remain fourth with nineteen points from nine games, but the three points they dropped could prove costly if the title race tightens in the coming weeks.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 33 – 67

Shots on target 1 – 5

Shots off target 2 – 6

Corners 1 – 12

⇄ 8' V. Moskvichev — Substitution ⚽ 39' D. Penchikov — Goal ⇄ 46' N. Bozov — Substitution 🟨 59' A. Orekhov — Yellow card ⇄ 60' A. Galoyan — Substitution ⇄ 62' N. Karmaev — Substitution 🟨 67' S. Borodin — Yellow card ⇄ 73' R. Magomedov — Substitution ⇄ 75' A. Pogosov — Substitution 🟨 80' R. Apekov — Yellow card 🟨 81' D. Shamkin — Yellow card ⇄ 86' N. Glushkov — Substitution 🟨 89' U. Ajibona — Yellow card

Match events

8' 0:0 Torpedo Moscow Substitution V. Moskvichev off: A. Orekhov
39' 1:0 Arsenal Tula Goal D. Penchikov
46' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Substitution N. Bozov off: B. Roganovic
59' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Yellow card A. Orekhov
60' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Substitution A. Galoyan off: D. Tsypchenko
62' 1:0 Arsenal Tula Substitution N. Karmaev off: D. Plotnikov
67' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Yellow card S. Borodin
73' 1:0 Arsenal Tula Substitution R. Magomedov off: T. Melekestsev
75' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Substitution A. Pogosov off: U. Ajibona
80' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Yellow card R. Apekov
81' 1:0 Arsenal Tula Yellow card D. Shamkin
86' 1:0 Arsenal Tula Substitution N. Glushkov off: O. Isaenko
89' 1:0 Torpedo Moscow Yellow card U. Ajibona

Statistics

33 Possession, % 67

1 Shots on target 5

2 Shots off target 6

1 Corners 12

17 Free kicks 15

2 Offsides 2

1 Yellow cards 5

0 Red cards 0

10 Goal kicks 6

28 Throw-ins 36

Line-ups

Arsenal Tula

Starting XI
#	Player	number
42	Aleksandr Melikhov	42
4	Daniil Penchikov	4
24	Kirill Gotsuk	24
45	Nikita Karmaev	45
8	Daniil Shamkin	8
14	Miloš Brnović	14
17	Igor Gorbunov	17
21	Nikita Razdorskikh	21
35	Ivan Enin	35
11	Rashid Magomedov	11
19	Nikita Glushkov	19

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Torpedo Moscow

Starting XI
#	Player	number
25	Rostislav Soldatenko	25
2	Nikita Bozov	2
4	Sergey Borodin	4
99	Gleb Shevchenko	99
5	Vladimir Moskvichev	5
21	Artur Galoyan	21
33	M. Camara	33
44	Daniil Kornyushin	44
17	Ilya Berkovskiy	17
24	Artem Pogosov	24
79	Aleksey Kashtanov	79

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#	Team	P	W	D	L	Points
1	Nizhny Novgorod	10	8	1	1	25
2	Veles	10	7	1	2	22
3	PFC Sochi	10	6	1	3	19
4	Torpedo Moscow	9	6	1	2	19
5	Ural	9	5	3	1	18
6	Spartak Kostroma	9	5	3	1	18
7	FC UFA	9	4	4	1	16
8	Shinnik Yaroslavl	9	3	5	1	14
9	FK Neftekhimik	10	4	0	6	12
10	Arsenal Tula	10	3	3	4	12

Arsenal Tula — Torpedo Moscow, First League

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