In the third round of the championship of Russia, the players of "Ural" and FC "Ufa" finished the meeting with a productive draw (1: 1). By the face-to-face meeting, both teams came up without defeats and were in the upper part of the standings.

"Ufa" came forward to the 17th minute: the attacker received the ball at the edge of the penalty "Ural", moved to a snatch in the center, bypassing the defender of the Urals, Mikhail Merkulov, and strongly struck at the far post.

"First of all, I want to apologize to everyone for the mistake in the first half, which led to a goal scored. If it were not for my mistake, we would have won the match, "the defender of the Ural team, Mikhail Merkulov, shared his opinion after the match..

Won the "Ural" was able to only at the end of the second half - in the 88th minute after the corner Gregor Balazhic jumped on the pitch and struck the shots on target. The ball from the knee of the defender of "Ufa" hit the gates.

"In fact, the game was in one gates. We had a big advantage. Have made enough approaches in the penalty area, created a lot.

Lack of completion. In general, we played well. Controlled the ball, led a tight fight, but did not win. I am glad that in the end we evened the score, "- said the head coach of FC Ural Alexander Tarkhanov.

After the match of the third round, the "bumble bees" with 5 points take the 7th place in the table of the Russian Premier League. The next match wards Alexander Tarkhanov will be held on August 6 at a party. The opponent will be the football club "Krasnodar".