Opening

For the second time in three rounds Baltika scored before the opponent had worked out what was happening. Against CSKA it took 35 seconds; in Samara, three minutes.

It all started with a throw-in. The visitors kept the ball, Ayman Murid picked up the rebound and lofted it to the left. Eldar Civic hit it first time into the far corner. Costanza lost his man, Pesyakov could not reach it.