League Play-Off

Moscow
Spectators: 34 (Terracing: 26, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) The field was rather wet after several days of rain when Semen Skovordin took the kick off in the first half of the match. After having played for 3 minutes, Ilya Putilin managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. Kopeysk HC's supporters crossed their fingers, but Ilya Putilin was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. Kopeysk HC's Aleksey Tarasenko played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Semen Skovordin in the 6th minute of play. In the 8th minute, Mikhail Stolypin got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. Arsen Vorontsov kicked well hit freekick during the 9th minute of the match. After a defensive mix-up in Moscow HC's zone, Innokentiy Larionov stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Timur Pastuhov came out of the goal and Innokentiy Larionov tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Moscow HC's Timur Pastuhov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Innokentiy Larionov in the 21st minute of play. Timur Pastuhov showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Mikhail Stolypin in the 23rd minute of the match. After some fancy dribbling in the 27th minute, Mikhail Stolypin managed to get in a good position for a shot. Kopeysk HC's supporters rose to their feet, but Mikhail Stolypin was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Timur Pastuhov breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. Moscow HC's Timur Pastuhov played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Mikhail Stolypin in the 29th minute of play. After 31 minutes of play, Kopeysk HC's Innokentiy Larionov made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Timur Pastuhov was left in no man's land by his defense there! Andrey Kishenin made a well adjusted shot against goal in the 35thth minute coming free in front of the goal, but Aleksey Tarasenko would not let the ball come through at any expense and made a nice save by the left post. Aleksey Tarasenko took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Semen Skovordin, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. The audience was convinced that Innokentiy Larionov's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Timur Pastuhov was relentless in the 44th minute of the game. Aleksey Tarasenko made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Semen Skovordin in the 45th minute of play.

The wind increased when Mikhail Stolypin made the kick off in the second half. After a defensive mix-up in Moscow HC's zone, Innokentiy Larionov stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Timur Pastuhov came out of the goal and Innokentiy Larionov tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Kopeysk HC's Innokentiy Larionov got a good chance for a goal in the 63rd minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In the 67th minute Mikhail Stolypin shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Timur Pastuhov saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Konstantin Gushalevich's late challenge caught a Kopeysk HC's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Konstantin Gushalevich helped the player get up and apologised. In the 67th minute, Konstantin Gushalevich hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 68 minutes into the match, Moscow HC's goalkeeper Timur Pastuhov had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Innokentiy Larionov. If Semen Skovordin had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 72nd minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. In the 74th match minute, Moscow HC was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Ruslan Kuzyaikin to maneuver through the defense. Mikhail Stolypin fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 79th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Timur Pastuhov having to interfere. Innokentiy Larionov came free with the goalkeeper in the 81st minute of the match, and shot straight on target. The shot was a little too simple and Timur Pastuhov could save by the left post. Semen Skovordin scored 1-1 in the 83rd match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Aleksey Tarasenko, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. In the 89th minute, Mikhail Stolypin reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Timur Pastuhov. The goal made the score 1-2. The supporters of Kopeysk HC booed when Moscow HC was adjudged a doubtful freekick after 92 match minutes in a wonderful position. Konstantin Gushalevich didn't get a good kick on the ball.