In the penultimate round of the Russian Championship, Zenit defeated Rostov

The intrigue associated with the outcome of the struggle for the gold of the Russian Championship between Krasnodar and Zenit survived to his last round. In the penultimate round, the Zenitites stayed at a distance of one point from the Krasnodar, overcoming on the road – 1: 0 – “Rostov”, which, it seems, was already preparing for the superfinal of the country’s Cup, put up an almost backup version of the composition for this game, but still in the end he almost pulled out a draw. The fate of the championship title will be decided in this way on Saturday in the Games of Zenit with Akhmat and Krasnodar with Dynamo.

Many of those who are not indifferent to Krasnodar, probably quietly, but firmly thundered to themselves in front of the Rostov match when they looked at what football players would play in it.

After all, the probability arose that after the Saturday heavy victory over Orenburg, the Krasnodar will take the title the very next day. It is necessary for Zenit to give in to Rostov.

But how to give in if the Rostovites have a second composition? All leaders are on the bench. And the basis is the 20-year-old Imran Aznesurov with Anton Shamonin, 19-year-old Alexei Koltakov with Herman Ignatov. 17-year-old Maxim Radchenko, coach Jonathan Alba threw on the left flank of the defense-under Louis Enrique with Gustav Mantoin.

But everything is clear. On Thursday, Rostov broke into the Superfinal of the Russian Cup, making sure of Spartak. In the championship, he can’t move anywhere from the middle of the table, no incentives. But the strongest is not bad to protect for the main cup match. Yes, who would have been in the place of Alba, would do otherwise?

But those Krasnodar fans who still decided to follow the match, the sparks of hope probably appeared over time. This semi -deciduous version of Rostov was, of course, terribly clumsy, but his diligence compensated for the clumsiness in part. And in it was the goalkeeper Daniil Odoevsky, who did not let Zenit score an early goal, having handled his head with Nina and Alexander Sobolev with deadly blows. And it was worth seeing the goal of the goalkeeper after the second of them. If someone wanted to know what real rage and obsession is, it was enough to look at him. With such a face, things are done absolutely impossible.

In general, Rostov held on-mistaken, losing the ball, clamping in his half and still spanning, like a courageous bespectacled man, stimulated to the wall with school hooligans. He did not want to give up so easy.

The Rostovites lasted as long as half an hour, which, by the standards of this option, pulled on a feat. Before the angular draw and the discount of Nina, who might seem inconvenient for Alexander Sobolev, you need to turn his back to the gate. But from this discount, a beautiful goal was born – a blow through themselves, with the reference “scissors”, which, when they will remember the ending season, may be overshadowed by all many many chances that have been molented by Sobolev. Posterly chic « scissors ».

But on this « Rostov » did not stop. It turned out that it was too early for Zenit to relax, because the Rostov reserve, if it is angry, is able to bite very painfully. The Zenitites survived a miracle. The goalkeeper Evgeny Latvyonok repulsed the ball sent on a target from the line of the goalkeeper Konstantin Kuchaev, but there were still blows – one, the second, third … Petersburg defenders took trouble, falling under them.

Before the break, however, the “Rostov” had already survived a miracle. Alexander Sobolev, closing the backy, first hit the crossbar, and picked up the ball, hit the rack. In fact, this is how to fasten the frame of the gate, apparently, it is not easier than to aptly hit through yourself.

The second half was opened by a new crooked smirk of good luck addressed to Zenit. The Zenitites celebrated the second goal of Alexander Sobolev with might and main when they realized that Var was checking it. And the audit confirmed: before giving the program to Sobolev, Maxim Glushenkov stepped on his leg to Andrei Langovich.

And then everything became even more interesting, because Rostov, nevertheless, adding to the « Zenith » to the « Zenit ». Pressed tightly – so that it was insanely tight.

But Zenit somehow saved a pleasant score, having survived a couple of minutes of natural horror at the end of the added time. Rostovtsyan Maxim Osipenko struck the gate, piercing the ball past the Lytyshonka. But then Var had already sided with the Zenitites, fixing off offspring.

Thus, before the final round of the Russian championship, whose matches will take place on Saturday, a gap of one point between Krasnodar and Zenit has been preserved. This means that the Zenitites can get ahead of the Krasnodar people only in case of loss of points as a leader who takes the Moscow Dynamo fighting for bronze. If Krasnodar loses, then the Zenit himself, who is a competitor to the competitor based on the results of full -time meetings, priority among additional indicators, in a home match with Akhmat, is enough in the “butt matches” zone. If the Krasnodar residents disperse with the Dynamo world, then the Petersburgers will not suit St. Petersburg.

The intrigue associated with the owner of a bronze award survived to the final round. After the end of the Sunday matches, three Moscow clubs apply for her at once, including two participants in these meetings – Dynamo and Spartak. Dynamo, who only at a compensated time pulled out the victory – 2: 1 – from Akron, are two points ahead of Spartak, who beat – 2-0 – “Wings of the Soviets”. Between them is CSKA. But the army team has a match in stock. They will hold their meeting of the 29th round-against Lokomotiv on a strange field-they will hold on Monday.

Alexey Prepokhov