Spartak defeated Rostov and returned to second place
According to the results of the 23rd round of the Russian Football Championship, a change occurred in the top three leaders. On the second place, the Moscow “Spartak” reached again, which on Sunday, on the road, largely beat Rostov – 3: 0 – and bypassed Zenit, which ended the match with Lokomotiv on a draw. Muscovites and Petersburgers are five points behind the leader of Krasnodar. The match of CSKA and the Moscow Dynamo, also claiming medals, ended with the victory of the army – 3: 1, which reached fourth place.
After the “Krasnodar” house with a minimum score on Saturday I defeated Akron, an exit meeting with Rostov, in fact, turned for Spartak into a match for survival in the Golden Race. Red-white ones solved their problem very impressive. However, this victory cannot be called easy.
The application of Muscovites looked unusual. In the defense center instead of Sdjan Babich, who has formed the overkill of yellow cards and the injury to the knee of Alexis Duarte, Ruslan Litvinov and Mitin Abena, who did not appear on the field in the matches of the Russian Championship since mid -October after a failure with Krasnodar, did not appear. In addition, the tip of the attack was not the best scorer of the championship Manfred Ugalde, replaced by Livay Garcia. This decision of the head coach of Spartak Act Stankovich surprised everyone and raised numerous questions. After all, the sharpness at the gate of Rustam Yatimov was clearly not enough in the first half.
Before the break, the Rostov residents remained ten after the removal of Alexei Sutommin, who almost caused a severe injury to Markinyusu with a straight foot in the tackle. It is not surprising that the second half was different. True, twenty minutes of Rostov held on. At the spectacular attack of Christopher Martins, who had almost scored after a pitch an acrobatic blow through himself, the hosts answered with their dangerous attack, but Yegor Golenkov did not break through the Spartak defender Daniil Denisov, who on time ended up on the gate line instead of his goalkeeper Alexander Maksimenko.
And then Spartak played in that luxurious and effective football, which before a winter pause brought him six victories in a row in the Russian championship.
In the 65th minute, shortly after the UGALDA replacement, the ideal pitch of the corner was demonstrated by Esecel Barko and Nail Ponyarov, who outplayed Maxim Osipenko and drove his head under the crossbars under the crossbar. Then his goal, albeit with the help of a ricochet from Ilya, was scored by the Spartak hero of this spring Christopher Martins. Well, finally, Barko, who received a pass from Ugalde, figured out both the defenders and Yatimov.
As a result – 3: 0, which means that Spartak, who took advantage of the anti -aircraft gun, which achieved only a draw on Saturday – 1: 1 – in the Moscow match with Lokomotiv, again reached the second place, where he was two rounds ago. Red-white, like Petersburgers, lag behind Krasnodar by five points, but are ahead of them in additional indicators. In the next round, first, Spartak will play at home with the Makhachkala Dynamo, and then Zenit will receive Krasnodar. That is, the situation in the struggle for the first place may change again.
Moscow derby CSKA – « Dynamo » completed the program of the tour to the accompaniment of the April snowfall. First, the Dynamo missed, whose defender Dmitry Skopintsev, trying to interfere with Tamerlana Musaev, was irresistibly for the goalkeeper Andrei Lunev on his own goal. In less than ten minutes, the balance was restored, and in the spotlight, but already in his penalty area, the same Musaev, who accidentally played his hand in his penalty area, was again. The penalty was perfectly performed by Jorge Karrascal, who, like in the first circle, scored former teammates.
However, the ending remained for CSKA. In the 77th minute, Igor Diveev took the ball from Karrascal, disappeared to replace Kirill Glebov, and the young midfielder of the army with an elegant pass found Saul Guarip, who clearly completed this three-traffic. Well, after the penalty, realized by Ivan Oblyakov, was appointed for the Dynamo foul in Kirill Glebov, everything became completely clear. CSKA won – 3: 1 and, having won the fourth match in a row, went to fourth place with a three -point behind Spartak and Zenit.
