Rubin beat Spartak and interrupted a series of victories of the Moscow Club
The next tour of the Russian championship has split the leaders created by the previous three. “Spartak” lagged behind Krasnodar and Zenit by three points, having lost 1: 2 – “Rubin”.
This match of the 20th round to cut off a series that was the pride of everyone who is pretty “Spartak”, and which forced him to perceive it not only as a participant in the “gold race”, but a participant with very, very good chances to prevail over competitors. Seven matches – at such a huge distance by any standards, a series of victories in the Russian Championship managed to stretch from last year. Victories, as a rule, are convincing, such that only confirmed the thesis about the fact that the “hot” team than “Spartak” is not in the championship today.
And the club cut off this series, which was stuck in the middle of the table and was left without real prospects to compete for the medals, but for some reason he terribly wanted to fight the leader. Rubin immediately slashed the Spartacians who had opened their defense with a program adopted by Bogdan Yovic. The goalkeeper of the guests Alexander Maksimenko miraculously took the trouble, hooking the ball with his hand. But the trouble came anyway.
The temptation to write off the goal with which Rubin opened the score on the sudden collapse of the couple of Spartak football players, of course, is great. But the Kazan mentor Rashid Rakhimov, noting him, probably praised himself for guessing with a stack of pressure: she worked, shot down his rivals from rhythm, shook his nerves and brought success in a harmless situation. Maksimenko, playing up with Daniil Denisov, somehow underestimated the fact that a stranger football player near the partner, and Denisov hesitated and soon watched with horror as Ruslan Bezrukov, who had flown into the halub, was driving into the prey. A moment later, the ball was already at Mirlind Daku, and the main forward of Rubin ruthlessly shot the goalkeeper.
And his gaze clung to very well -organized Kazan counterattacks. “Spartak”, blocking oxygen, the most acute characters – Markiniusu, Manfred Ugalde, Esekel Barko – meet a dense wall in front of the penalty, and when the fuss is repulsed, a tight spring is straightened, and several Rubin players rush forward. Moreover, everyone knows both their own and comrade maneuver.
And so the next such a whip attack caught up to the race on the left flank of Bezrukov and his accurate, right after the cunning Fint, filed a goalkeeper to the border. And there, over Alexis Duarte and Oleg Ryabchuk, Daku flew into the air, who only had to nod his head lightly to drive the ball into the net.
Something sensible to turn out at Spartak at the end of the first half.
For example, Markinyus, for example, turned on, whose finest pass should have reached the Theo Bongonda, who was preparing to close, but did not reach because of the seemingly not knowing fatigue and covered the enormous distances of Bezrukov, who managed to catch the ball in the tackle.
Before the break, Spartak still reduced the lag. Rubin was summed up by Ilya Rozhkov, who captured Danil Prutsev on the border of the penalty area so hard that one could not do without a penalty. Barko decided that in order to breathe confidence into the team, it was necessary not to score, but to score, trolling the opponents, – put the goalkeeper in a corner and parachuted the ball in the center. The trick was a success. And the Spartak found next to Rubin, after rest, attacked him, giving up energy. Kazan also showed that with a margin of strength and emotions they have everything in order – to survive, at least enough.
The fight came out hot. And her climax was a skirmish of Daku and Duarte. Both have earned removal by its results. And it seemed to be the fate of the ever -defending “ruby” after this outbreak of passions almost scored, as if she was a dose of adrenaline for him. After that, I did exclusively “Spartak”, but he never broke the hosts. Now, instead of the three leaders in the championship, the leadership tandem – from Krasnodar and Zenit. The Spartakites are three points behind him, and in the next round they take Petersburgers a week later.
