| CSKA took the opportunity to improve its tournament position After the sixth round, the Russian championship table begins to take on a digestible form. Last year's championship winner CSKA gradually moved up to the leaders, Lokomotiv is one point behind the current champions, and last year's silver medalist Zenit is even higher. The idealistic picture is slightly spoiled only by “Spartak” and “Torpedo”, which climbed unreasonably high, and the bronze winner “Rubin”, which fell to 15th place.
The army team owes its progress to two games against outsiders. In any case, the games with Rostov and Kuban came at the right time. And if a team that allows itself to keep millionaire players on the bench missed points here too, it would be strange, to say the least. And so a real opportunity arose to improve their tournament position, which the CSKA players took advantage of. Arthur Jorge's team easily dealt with Kuban, but the game does not give any idea of the current state of the army team. Yes, Kirichenko, Gusev and Semak sent three goals into the Krasnodar team's goal, but here it is more likely to talk about the weakness of Kuban's defense rather than the strength of CSKA's attack - everything was too easy for the hosts on the training ground called the Dynamo stadium lawn. So the moment of truth for the army team will come in a week: in the next round, Jorge’s team will have a date with Lokomotiv.
The railway workers will approach the principled fight in a good mood. And even though the victory over Saturn was not easy, psychologically it was very important for Yuri Semin’s team. “The functional state of our team is normal, but the defeat from Torpedo-Metallurg in the previous round put us in a very difficult situation,” noted the Loko coach. - So I’m very happy with the result of the match with Saturn. The railway workers' mentor can also rejoice at the return of Pimenov to the field, who scored a goal in the first game.
While the favorites are just getting ready to enter the real battle, the teams that, by the will of fate, find themselves in the leaders, are trying to strengthen their position as much as possible. Eventually, the fields will soon return to normal, and then other qualities will come to the fore. In the meantime, the chance to see what Spartak was like only appeared when the Nevio Scala team played on artificial turf. The coach of the Russian national team, Georgy Yartsev, did not fail to take advantage of the opportunity and decided to spend his birthday in the stands of Luzhniki. The national team coach didn’t see anything particularly joyful. The only one who stood out on the field was Igor Semshov, for whose demolition a penalty was awarded against Spartak. The “red and whites” bounced back at the end of the first half – Pianovich scored, but the Spartak team failed to maintain a draw. At the end of the half, Alexander Panov converted a one-on-one. So Georgy Yartsev’s former team was unable to give him a birthday present.
Together with Torpedo, the standings were topped by Zenit, which for the first time in this championship kept its goal intact. And Petrzela’s team never had any problems scoring goals.
Results of the 6th round matches. "Rubin" - "Wings of the Soviets" - 1:3 ( Konovalov 4 - Vinogradov 18, 45, Karyaka 30 - from pen. ), "Saturn" - "Lokomotiv" - 1:2 ( Bazhenov 90 - - Sychev 73, Pimenov 90 ), Torpedo-Metallurg - Rostov - 2:2 ( Sirkhaev 14, Tchuise 79 - Villaseca 30, Perez 90 ), CSKA - Kuban - 3:1 ( Kirichenko 8, Gusev 17, Semak 73 --Kantonistov 84 ), "Shinnik" - "Dynamo" - 1:0 ( Khazov 72 ), "Rotor" - "Alania" - 0:1 ( Brabets 67 ), "Torpedo" - "Spartak" - 2:1 ( Budylin 6 - with pen., Panov 87 - Pyanovich 41), "Amkar" - "Zenith" - 0:2 ( Arshavin 21, Spivak 80 - - with pen )
Premier League I V N P M O | 1. "Torpedo" | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11--4 | 12 | | 2. Zenit | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15--11 | 12 | | 3. "Spartak" | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12--10 | 11 | | 4. CSKA | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11--7 | 10 | | 5. “Torpedo-Metallurg” | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11--7 | 9 | | 6. "Lokomotiv" | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6--3 | 9 | | 7. Amkar | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3--3 | 8 | | 8. “Wings of the Soviets” | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9--11 | 8 | | 9. "Shinnik" | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3--5 | 8 | | 10. Dynamo | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9--5 | 7 | | 11. "Saturn" | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9--7 | 7 | | 12. "Alania" | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2--5 | 5 | | 13. "Kuban" | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4--8 | 5 | | 14. "Rotor" | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8--15 | 4 | | 15. "Ruby" | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5--9 | 3 | | 16. "Rostov" | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4--12 | 3 |
Andrey VDOVIN
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