RPL Relegation Playoff
1st leg

Ural Ekaterinburg 0-2 Akron Togliatti
Goals: Akron – Andjelkovic (67), Danilin (72)

Ural dropped to their second relegation playoff battles, in 2014/15 team under Aleksandr Tarkhanov and Yury Matveev survived against Tom Tomsk, while Akron, last season Russian Cup breakthrough, got this spot first time. RPL team nearly got the lead after Ibrahima Cisse scoring, but VAR disallowed through Aleksey Ionov’s offside, who was standing in front of keeper.

Nevertheless, Akron had the only official shot on target for both teams in first half, and after break they succeeded more. In five minutes Nemanja Andjelkovic, scored with head after corner kick, and Kirill Danilin, doubled the lead from Ilya Pomazun turnover, made two-goal gap for Akron, and with this advantage First League team will host Ural on 1 June in second leg.