Our team was unable to score points at the westernmost point of Olimp-FNL.

One of the central matches of the 22nd round of Olympus-FNL, despite the final score, was held in an equal fight. Our team had more possession of the ball, but allowed a lot of chances at their own goal. One of these was used by Baltika already in the 22nd minute through the efforts of Yan Kazaev. Almost immediately we could compare the score: Maksim Palienko received a pass in the penalty area, “sat down” Alshin and shot into the post. The ball bounced successfully to Artyom Del’kin, who hit the already empty net, but our striker hit higher. In the middle of the first half, Dmitry Efremov was injured, due to which Vladimir Zhapaleu had to carry out a forced substitution.

In the debut of the second half of the meeting, our guys again forgiven the opponent: Karim Giraev played ahead in the opponent’s penalty area and intercepted a pass to the goalkeeper, but in close combat, Evgeny Latyshonka was unable to outplay. Kaliningraders felt comfortable playing the second number and at the first opportunity they counterattacked dangerously. The degree of the nervous game was asleep in the 73rd minute, when the referee Anton Anopa saw a violation of the rules in the penalty area and pointed to the penalty spot. Vladislav Lazarev doubled the hosts’ lead from the penalty spot, and the final assault did not give Akron any results.

MATCH PROTOCOL: Baltika (Kaliningrad) – Akron (Togliatti) 2:0 (1:0)

Goals: 1:0 Kazaev (22), 2:0 Lazarev (73, penalty)

Baltika (Kaliningrad): Latyshonok, Tishkin, Meshchaninov, Karpovich, Makarchuk, Popov, Kuzmin (Markovich, 69), Klenkin (Aleinik, 89), Kazaev (Dzhamilov, 59), Alshin (Denisov, 89), Shamkin (Lazarev , 58)

Akron (Togliatti): Volkov, Zuev, Rogac, Kilin, Bosov, Chudin (Potapov, 77), Palienko, Delkin (Marukhin, 61), Ekra (Pesegov, 61), Efremov (Gazdanov, 20; Nikhaev, 77) , Giraev

Yellow cards: Shamkin (8), Ekra (30), Zuev (37), Kuzmin (45), Tishkin (58), Popov (86), Markovich (87)

Referee: Anopa (Blagoveshchensk)

13th of November. Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad Stadium. 497 fans.