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Nizhny Novgorod — Volga Ulyanovsk, 30 August 2026, 17:00 UTC : score 2:2

match finished Russian First League · Matchday 9 Sunday 30 August · 17:00 UTC
Sovcombank Arena · referee O. Zhuravlev
our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off
Nizhny Novgorod 54% draw 22% Volga Ulyanovsk 24%
The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Nizhny Novgorod win, and the match finished 2:2. Fans backed Nizhny Novgorod win — they got it wrong.

fans 68 votes
Nizhny Novgorod 60% draw 13% Volga Ulyanovsk 27%
Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

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V. Sarveli 7'
V. Grulev 1-0 14'
V. Sarveli 2-0 24'
A. Khashkulov 2-1 38'
G. Popolitov 41'
I. Bober for T. Komissarov 46'
O. Krasilnichenko for R. Shagiakhmetov 56'
A. Nikitin 2-2 62'
A. Sokolov for V. Sarveli 62'
A. Saplinov 72'
I. Bober 75'
O. Krasilnichenko 76'
G. Shilnikov for G. Popolitov 78'
L. Ticic for M. Maiga 78'
D. Rakhmanov for K. Folmer 83'
L. Ticic 84'
V. Yakovlev for A. Khashkulov 86'
A. Bykov 90+3'
A. Nikitin 90+3'
V. Tsarukyan for Y. Koledin 90+1'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench
Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod 4-2-3-1 · Vadim Garanin 4-2-3-1 · Mikhail Belov Volga Ulyanovsk Volga Ulyanovsk
30 Nikita Medvedev
3 Yuriy Koledin 4 Roman Evgenyev 8 Mamadou Maiga 66 Yan Gudkov
78 Nikolay Kalinskiy 94 Artem Timofeev
30 Gleb Popolitov 72 Timofey Komissarov 9 Vladislav Sarvelyi
27 Vyacheslav Grulev
11 Astemir Khashkulov
7 Andrey Nikitin 9 Kirill Folmer 55 Aleksandr Saplinov
10 Ruslan Shagiakhmetov 99 Andrey Kostin
30 Aydar Khabibullin 4 Kamil Ibragimov 55 Artem Bykov 5 Danil Stepanov
1 Rinat Shakerov
Nizhny Novgorod bench
  1. 10Adrián Balboa
  2. 77Andrey Ivlev
  3. 69Artem Sidorenko
  4. 18Artem Sokolov
  5. 17Gleb Shilnikov
  6. 78Islam Imamov
  7. 17Ivan Bober
  8. 29Luka Tičić
  9. 81Nikita Generalov
  10. 22Nikita Kakkoev
  11. 80Valeriy Tsarukyan
  12. 2Viktor Aleksandrov
Volga Ulyanovsk bench
  1. 28Danil Novikov
  2. 8Denis Rakhmanov
  3. 22Dmitriy Rakhmanov
  4. 23Egor Baburin
  5. 60Ignat Kasyanov
  6. 17Igor Gershun
  7. 77Luka Bagatelia
  8. 3Oleg Krasilnichenko
  9. 14Vladislav Yakovlev

How the match went

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Nizhny Novgorod and Volga Ulyanovsk met on matchday 9 of the Russian First League on 30 August at Sovcombank Arena. Final score — 2:2.

Nizhny Novgorod sit 1th on 25 points after 17 matches (15 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss), unbeaten in 10 matches, 7 matches without conceding. Volga Ulyanovsk sit 13th on 10 points after 18 matches (6 wins, 4 draws, 8 losses), 3 matches without conceding.

Season form

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Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod last five Volga Ulyanovsk Volga Ulyanovsk
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17 Matches 18
15 — 1 — 1 Wins — draws — defeats 6 — 4 — 8
52 — 15 Scored — conceded 22 — 25
2.71 Points per game 1.22
3.06 Goals scored per game 1.22
7 Clean sheets 3
0 Failed to score 5
unbeaten in 10 Current streak winless in 2

Nizhny Novgorod at home: 8 matches, 7 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses, goals 33—7, 2.75 points per match.

Volga Ulyanovsk away: 9 matches, 3 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses, goals 13—15, 1.33 points per match.

League table

after the match
#TeamPWDLGoalsPts
1Nizhny NovgorodNizhny Novgorod16141148—1543
2UralUral17104329—1134
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7ShinnikShinnik1768322—1826
8Volga UlyanovskVolga Ulyanovsk1864822—2522
9UfaUfa1757519—1722
Full Russian First League table