We have looked back to bring you our favourite stats and figures from the matchday 27 fixtures in the Russian Premier Liga.

1 - Akhmat’s goals against CSKA were like the proverbial London bus; you can wait ages for one, then two come at once. Daniil Utkin and Bernard Berisha’s strikes helped the Grozny side to their first win against the Armymen in nine attempts. Not only had CSKA enjoyed eight consecutive wins against Akhmat before this weekend, they’d also not even conceded a single goal in the time.

2 - Two was the magic number for Ural Ekaterinburg this weekend. Their spirited performance against Dynamo to pull off a 3-2 shock win meant it was the first time in over a year they had scored at least two goals in two consecutive matches; the last time it happened, they also took points off Dynamo at the VTB Arena in a 2-2 draw. Eric Bicfalvi once again was the spark with two well-taken finishes to take his tally to eight for the season, equalling his best-ever return for the club, while the icing on the cake was Danijel Miskic slamming home his second league goal for the club, having only scored his first last weekend.

4 - Sergey Semak’s achievement at wrapping up a fourth consecutive RPL championship cannot be underestimated, no matter how rich the resources at his disposal. No other manager has won more than two consecutive top-flight Russian league title this century. At his current trajectory he has won a major trophy every 24 matches with Zenit with four RPL crowns, two Russian Super Cups and a Russian Cup. Just in RPL titles won, he moves level with Valery Gazzaev in joint-third place, but given that he is still only 46 year old, there is every chance he could become the most decorated Russian manager of all time.

6 - Not only is Agalarov all-but guaranteed to wrap up the overall RPL top scorer’s crown, but he is also the joint leader for converted penalties after his late equaliser this weekend. It was his sixth successful penalty of the season, and just so happened to come against the most successful keeper for penalty saves, Ilya Lantratov (4 penalties saved).

6 - Sochi are no strangers to goalscoring records in the RPL; almost two years ago they were responsible for the highest scoring match ever in Premier Liga history when they destroyed a young Rostov XI 10-1. This weekend they broke their own away record score by thrashing Rubin Kazan 6-0 with all goals coming from different scorers, as well as notching the biggest away win in the whole RPL season, and the biggest away win of any side in over five years. It was also the second time this spring that Rubin had conceded six goals in a single match after the 6-1 defeat away to CSKA Moscow. 

8 - Gamid Agalarov’s sensational personal campaign needs little introduction; the Ufa striker is still leading the RPL scoring charts on 18 goals, thanks partly to his added time penalty this weekend to level matters against 10-man Khimki, but there are a few features of his run that stood out this weekend. Most tellingly, the Russia under-21 international has shown time and again that he can keep a cool head when it matters most, notching his eighth goal in the last 10 minutes of matches at Arena Khimki. 

15 - It will come as little consolation to Gyrano Kerk that his early goal to hand Lokomotiv a shock early lead at the Gazprom Arena contributed towards an unusual record for Zenit; it became the 15th goal Zenit have conceded at home this campaign, making theirs the leakiest defence of any title winners in the last two decades. Three of the four next worst records for home goals conceded by league champions also belong to Zenit (14 in 2007, 13 in 2020/21 & 2018/19) - and there is still one more home game for Zenit to come.

27 - Dynamo knew that defeat against Ural would hand Zenit the chance to wrap up the title later on Saturday, as turned out to be the case, but it wasn’t for lack of trying that they failed to get past Igor Shalimov’s visitors. They took a whopping 27 shots for their two goals, their second-most in a home game this season. Against Ufa they took 28, and also scored only twice, making a fairly embarrassing ratio of one goal for every 13 shots across those two games. Incidentally, Dynamo average the most shots per game in the whole league with over 17 per game, with almost eight of those attempts from outside the penalty area.