Lokomotiv was held by Akhmat in the Russian Cup thanks to two outs

The Lokomotiv championship in the country’s championship survived in the “Fonbet” of the Russian Cup, having passed in the first stage of the semifinal round of the “paths of the regions” “Akhmat”. He defeated him in his field – 2: 1 – primarily thanks to the ability of Ilya Samoshnikov to enter the ball into the game from Auta. After his shots, both goals of railway workers were scored.

This match was drawn for some time, of course, to take for a demonstration of the depths of the pit in which Lokomotiv unexpectedly landed in the spring. The composition seems to be almost combat (unlike, by the way, what Akhmat put up), but is this a team in which it was easy to see the applicant for medals last year, maybe even gold? The movement is sluggish, as if everyone went on a field with weighting legs. The density of the midline is zero, so the game all the time goes somewhere near the Gate of Lokomotiv, and his own more or less normal attack, with the feints of Ilya Samoshnikov on the corner of the penalty and his blow to the defender, for the first time passes only when there is a mollusky room behind. And the defense, on which in such a situation all hope is some kind of nervous, little feeling and understanding.

“Akhmat,” it seems, was not even required to apply on top to break through it – she parted herself. The goalkeeper Anton Mitryushkin, by some miracle, fished out a ball in a nine, sent there from five meters by Amin Talal. But literally a few seconds later he had to observe how the partners leave him to be torn to the thunderstorm. Now in the penalty area of ​​the railway workers easily leaked to Zaim Divanovich, and Rodrigo Diaz, to whom he threw off the ball, perhaps he himself was surprised that he, standing side by side with the goalkeeper line, does not want to anyone – I do not want to.

This picture probably did not leave for many who saw it, not a drop of doubts: the “Lokomotiv” falling in the Russian championship is waiting for a cup collapse. And certainly it was impossible to imagine what a plot turn in the match would occur before a break.

The Lokomotiv has already mastered this moment, but still not so much as to imagine it tormenting a calm, but by no means imposing Akhmat. And he put everything upside down thanks to one and only technique, which is sometimes in vain in football.

It is well known that Ilya Samoshnikov is not only about flank connections, but also about entering the ball due to the side line. His outs are a separate genre of art. Lokomotiv restored his balance when the ball, thrown out by Self -School, reached the place that had had a place opposite the gate and coolly laid the corps of Dmitry Vorobyov. And then Akhmat coped with the same throw. But Lokomotiv saved the ball, and Sergey Pinyaev’s canopy reached Yegor Pogliyev’s head, which depended in the air no worse than Michael Jordan.

The second half of the match saved from the sensation of the absolute accident of this explosion of the “locomotive”. He was quite good – alive, correctly arranged. And once he issued such a combination that at least include in the textbooks as evidence of the importance of a quick pass. The ball overcame the distance a little less than the length of the field in two gear – from Sesar Montes Dmitry Barinov and from Barinov – Dmitry Vorobyov. He left one on one with the goalkeeper Vadim Ulyanov, but struck a little inaccurately.

Akhmat flew out of the Russian Cup. And “Lokomotiv” now has to play in the second stage of the semifinal round of the “Way of the Regions”. His rival in this match will be the winner of the semifinal confrontation in the RPL path between Zenit and Rostov. In it, the response match will take place on Wednesday. In the first Zenit, visiting a guest with a score of 1: 0.

Arnold Kabanov