Zenit continues the fight against Krasnodar for the championship

Last weekend, they brought the Golden Railway in the Russian championship to the fight of two clubs. The playing finally drew from it – 0: 0 – with the “torch” “Spartak” and actually dropped out of the world that was dispersed – 1: 1 with the “Akhmat” CSKA. The only competitor of the Krasnodar, who overcome Rubin, remained Zenit. In the 27th round, he was also close to collapse in a match with an opponent from the basement of the table, but, yielding to the house after the first half-0: 1-“Nizhny Novgorod”, he was able to wrest the victory in the second half-2: 1-thanks to Alexander Sobolev’s double.

In the St. Petersburg match, Zenit, a quarter of an hour, was methodically hacked to many, probably not the most convincing rear of the opponent, struggling for survival in the elite. Maybe too methodically, without much fiction, but it was impossible to see anything terrible: sooner or later they would hack it anyway. And when a quarter of an hour passed, thunder struck. This was the first full -fledged Nizhny Novgorod attack, and it dumbfounded the Zenit stadium. Vyacheslav Grulev managed to break through after the flank fire Ilya Agapov, the goalkeeper of the hosts Yevgeny Latyshonok did not smash, but not one of his partners, but to Nikita like a ball. It was not possible to send him his head towards the gate of the gate, but it turned out to be something like a program to be the girl’s girlfriend. And the Latvian was already out of work.

Zenit, who knows how to recoup, did not want to recoup in this match.

Alexander Sobolev secured a reputation, possibly talented, with a mass of useful skills, but a terribly unlucky striker, and when, already squeezing the defender with the corps, he was chatting the ball past the gate, and when, having taken off into the air, he lost the fight of the Nizhny Novgorod goalkeeper Nikita Medvedev, although he was again a side of the gates. And under the curtain of the first half, Sobolev, not reaching the transfer, ensured, so it happened, the opportunity to take a hospitally open near corner. However, the Brazilian was filled with, falling into the rack.

The game insisted on replacements in Zenit. There were replacements, but Sobolev was delayed on the field and already in the second half nevertheless corrected, closing the canopy soon injured Wendel. Petersburgers, equalizing the score, sewed – hard, tired. And Sobolev, justifying confidence, again prevailed in the air over the Nizhny Novgorod and again sent the ball to the net.

The distance of four points between Krasnodar and the Zenit pursuing him was preserved.

This means that if Petersburgers in the 28th round are stained in a visiting meeting with the Dynamo Makhachkala, they can partly part with the championship title.

Spartak flew out of the Golden Race, having lost even theoretical chances of getting around « Krasnodar »in a match that seems to have not promised him anything bad. The “torch”, which is on the lower line in the table, already actually farewell to hopes to survive in the elite, for the last time achieved victory in October, and in the three previous meetings, who lost to his opponents much less terrible than the Spartaks, looked like easy prey. But an embarrassment happened.

Signs of something bad for Spartak in this game appeared immediately. Too often, the attacks of a completely toothless “torch” in vain reached the stage when someone else’s defense must turn on the Avrala regime. And in the middle of the first half, this defense, lining up in the line, somehow completely indifferently reacted to the pass on Alexei Kashtanov, who was located in front of her. Kashtanov deftly spun near the central element of the Spartak chain of Ruslan Litvinov, and he dumped it with his hands on the lawn.

Arbiter Ranel Ziyakov showed Litvin a yellow card, but it seemed to quickly guess that it should not be limited to it.

Var helped him to make sure that actually, although the foul took place at a distance from the gate, behind the Spartak violator was an open path to them. And the breakdown of the exit one on one is a red card.

So Spartak remained in the minority, but after the emergency he played, oddly enough, even a little better than before it – adding in severity. And Liba Garcia could take the guests twice forward. At the end of the first half, after the far casting of Manfred Ugalde, he gently processed the ball and shot the near corner from a dozen meters – the “torch” was helped out by the goalkeeper Vitaliy Gudiev. And already in the second half of Garcia, the ball hooked his head so that Gudiev could not get to him. Now the “torch” was helped by the stand.

However, the Voronezh residents in the end had a moment no worse than these two. The rather dense scum brought down to the blow of Vladimir Ilyin already on the empty, in fact, gates. “Spartak” from trouble was saved by the instinct of Daniil Khlusevich, who felt that he had to insure the goalkeeper of the goalkeeper Ilya Pomazun, who replaced the injured Alexander Maksimenko.

CSKA after his match the chances of the championship formally remained. But those that are sometimes called purely mathematical. Ephemeral chances.

In order to overtake Krasnodar, you need to cope with him in a full -time meeting in the nearest round, then win two more remaining and wait for the Krasnodar to suddenly lose their own. That is, the army team, who went around Spartak on a point, also, frankly, outside the “gold race”.

And overboard they were thrown by Akhmat – the team with status is slightly higher than the “torch”, from the “area of ​​butt matches”, a neighbor of Nizhny Novgorod. And it all started for CSKA, unlike Spartak, excellent. One of the first serious army attacks led to the blow of Abbosbek Fayzullaev, who fell in the Grozny football player Turpal Ali Ibishev. The rebound turned out to be successful for the second, which opened the score.

But the continuation of the game with her start contrasted. Akhmat came to life, moved, loaded army defense of Igor Akinfeev, and eventually pushed them. This time Ibishev no longer took the ball at himself, but beat on goal. Akinfeev resisted, but the second Grozny wave rolled immediately, and Maxim Samorodov, finding himself on her crest, restored his head.

And then the whole hour up to the final whistle was exchanging injections. The opponents divided them approximately equally, but not one led to success, although, say, Armean Christyan Bistrovich was not far from him at a compensated time. Bistrovich hit the notorious, but the reaction of the goalkeeper George Shelia was at the level.

Alexey Prepokhov