CSKA beat Rostov in the Superfinal « Fonbet » of the Russian Cup

The domestic football season ended with the Fonbet Cup, in which CSKA brilliantly played in the “Luzhniki” “Rostov” in a penalty series that followed the zero draw in the main time.

The Moscow final became a crown of a difficult but happily ending season for CSKA. An unstable, not without torment, adapting to the requirements of the new coach Mark Nikolich in the fall, after a winter break he appeared a completely different team – well constructed and cheerful. As a result, the championship threatened with a bad outcome brought him bronze, and the second in rank the internal tournament is the ninth victory in it. According to their number, CSKA became a co -owner of the record: the same is only with Lokomotiv. The ninth prize, however, was obtained in an exhausting and boring struggle.

Pepper this finale seemed to have added an episode at the very beginning. CSKA submitted the standard, and Rostovites were knocked out of the penalty area.

Only now, knocked out, he lay on the leg of the army man Ivan Oblyakov. Important clarification: on the right leg, which is by no means as good for Oblyakov as the left. But he fired a “uncomfortable” leg no worse than “convenient”. He fired tightly. And then Rostov fans had to observe something terribly unpleasant. The goalkeeper Rustam Yatimov correctly chose a position and, of course, had no right not to cope with this blow by Oblyakov. But he put his hands under him so awkwardly that after a moment the ball, bouncing from them under the feet of Yatimov, jumped into the net.

And then the most interesting thing happened. Yatimov and his partners had already prepared to digest unexpected misfortune when it became clear that the judges working with VAR are suspected of something wrong. And Kirill Levnikov, an arbiter, heading a judicial brigade on the field, suspects something amiss. Repeat showed what exactly. At the time of the transfer of all the defenders, the Armenian Moizes jumped out. It remained to figure out what kind of offside it is – passive, for which they are not punished, or active. And the face was clearly thin. The ball did not reach Moyzes, but he, apparently, prevented his corps from reaching him with his rumors who were nearby.

Levnikov examined the picture carefully and enthusiastically. In these few minutes, he, clinging to the monitor, looked like Sherlock Holmes, looking for tiny marks at the place of a mysterious crime. And what is this scarlet droplet? And where did the cigarette cigarette butt come from? No, it’s unclean business.

Finally, he loudly and firmly declared the exciting stadium about the abolition of the goal. And the reaction of the stands confirmed that people who were not indifferent to Rostov gathered on them, if less than those who are indifferent to CSKA, then not much.

To rejoice at this decision was someone.

Pepper, meanwhile, appear in the game and after this not so small drama flatly refused. And the whole thing, perhaps, is not in the poor form of the participants of the superfinal under the curtain of a complex season, but in the fact that they studied each other thoroughly and do not allow them to be superfluous. And if, say, the Rostovites leave a free zone for the second, then such a tiny that you still won’t have time to tame a prospective one in appearance – you will run out of the ball with the ball. Well, at Rostov, all his fuckers also disappeared.

And the break changed little. A braid on a stone is called. Fans are usually insanely annoying, but nothing can be done if each of the opponents in every situation knows exactly what to do. In order for one of the two items to still take the top, something extraordinary is required.

An extraordinary attack first took place about a quarter of an hour before the end of the main time – at CSKA. Fast, with trials in touch, cutting the Rostov defense for shreds. Under her curtain in touch from the center of the penalty area, Saul Guarirap was beaten. But Rustam Yatimov this time complemented the correct choice of position with a convincing game with his hands.

And soon, the ball in the near corner partner of Guarirapa Matvey Kislyak was very well twisted, but it did not work out. And almost immediately after his miss, there was a whistle, meaning that the super final would end with a penalty series.

And this shootout, unlike everything that preceded it, turned out to be extremely exciting. She started from the blow of the Rostov, Joren Bayramyan in the rack. But then Yatimov, hooking the ball sent to the target Igor Diveev, equalized the chances. Everyone decided, God knows what the feat of the feat of the main Russian goalkeeper of the current century. Igor Akinfeev in his duel with Alexei Suromin was even more difficult than Yatimov in a duel with Diveev. The Rostov player performed the eleven -meter at first glance almost impeccably. However, Akinfeev, already flying past the ball, managed to throw his hand to the side and get it.

Alexey Prepokhov