Match Report
Nemman edged Slavia Mozyr 1–0 at home in the Premier League's Regular Season round 20 on Friday evening. The winner came from Anton Suchkov in the final minute of added time, and it kept the hosts' push for a higher finish alive. To be fair, the result felt earned — Nemman had controlled the tempo for long stretches before the decisive moment.
The game opened with caution, though discipline issues surfaced early. Anton Lukashov picked up a yellow card in the fifth minute, and Mikhail Kozlov followed at the hour mark. By then the match had settled into a pattern of tight midfield battles, with neither side willing to commit too many men forward.
The turning point came when Nemman were reduced to ten men, though the exact minute is not recorded in the available data. What mattered was how the side responded — they changed shape at the break and tried to close down space rather than chase the game. There were substitutions at 64 minutes, with Alexander Dzhigero and Aleksey Antilevski brought on, and Danu Spătaru added shortly after.
Slavia Mozyr had the better shooting accuracy, hitting two targets from three attempts, but Nemman could not afford another slip in attack. The hosts registered five shots on target compared to the visitors' two, and their possession edge — 55 per cent — showed they dictated the rhythm. And here's the thing about these matches: the statistics tell one story, but the result tells another.
The late goal arrived when the match was already slipping away for the visitors. Evgeniy Shevchenko and Denis Fedorenko had been introduced at 75 minutes, and Sergei Pushnyakov at 79, but it was Ruslan Lisakovich and Nikita Romanov who came on at the final whistle — perhaps a tactical preparation for extra time that never materialised. Suchkov's strike at 90+1 sealed it.
The win keeps Nemman seventh with 30 points from 19 games, extending their unbeaten run to three across the last four outings. Slavia Mozyr remain tenth on 22 points, and the gap between them and the top half is now seven. By then, the.match had become about survival of momentum rather than spectacle.