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Lawyer defending Dynamo
The Dutch coach started working at Zenit with a draw
The almost two-month break in the Russian Football Championship associated with the World Championship has ended. Moreover, it ended several days earlier than originally planned. Between the matches of the ninth round, which took place in mid-May, and the games of the tenth round, which the teams will play early next week, football officials fit the November 28th round. This was done so that Guus Hiddink and the Russian national team had time to play the European Championship qualifying matches with Israel and Estonia on November 7 and 11.Russian clubs spent the two months of the break quite calmly. With the exception of Dynamo. The central council of Dynamo finally quarreled with the owner of a controlling stake (approximately 70%) Alexey Fedorychev, and as a result, the team’s players did not receive salaries for two months. By freezing payments under contracts, Mr. Fedorychev tried to put pressure on the Dynamo Central Committee and speed up the transfer of land to him in Petrovsky Park for investment projects. In turn, the Central Council tried to find other sources of funding. Informal negotiations were held with the Nafta-Moscow company, as well as with a number of banks regarding the opening of a credit line. In turn, the players, who never received the money, threatened to go on strike and not attend today’s match with Zenit.
As a result, at the last moment a solution was found. CS Dynamo entered into an agreement with Vneshtorgbank, under the terms of which the football club must receive 20 million euros by the end of the season. The situation is strange even for Russian football: after all, VTB is the title sponsor of another Premier League club, CSKA. One way or another, the players, having received financial guarantees, went to the game with Zenit. Otherwise, Dynamo would have had to play double in St. Petersburg.
Zenit, by the way, is also going through interesting times. The team was led by Dick Advocaat, and the match with Dynamo was his debut in Russia. In the meantime, the Dutch coach was busy at the World Cup with the Korean national team, his assistant Karel Pot appeared at the club, and then two Korean football players - Lee Ho and Kim Dong-jin. Alexander Kerzhakov’s attempts to move to the Spanish Seville were also stopped, and some negotiations were held on the purchase of several famous foreign football players by Zenit.
But the pre-match situation turned out to be more interesting than the game itself. Maybe it was because the weather was very hot in St. Petersburg, or maybe just no one wanted to take too many risks, but there weren’t too many dangerous moments in the match. Only towards the end of the first half did the opponents exchange dangerous attacks. In one of them, Dynamo was saved only by the reaction of Ovchinnikov, who managed to parry Kerzhakov’s header after a free kick. In another, Malafeev rescued his team after a dangerous approach to Danny's goal. The Portuguese could have scored in the second half, but failed to properly strike from an advantageous position. Likewise, the St. Petersburg team did not realize their not very numerous opportunities, not allowing Dick Advocaat to triumphantly begin his career in Russia.
Meanwhile, CSKA won another victory. The championship leader beat Torpedo 2:0. The first goal was scored by Jo in the eighth minute from a penalty kick, which he himself earned. And just before the break, the Torpedo players were left with ten men - Heinrich was sent off for the second yellow card, and the fate of the match, in fact, was decided. The only question was by what score the army team would win. It turned out that it was not a big one: in the second half, only Ivica Olic scored, and again from the penalty spot.
Among the other results, we can note a 0:0 draw in the match between Lokomotiv and Saturn (Loskov missed a penalty in the 26th minute) and a major victory for Moscow over Shinnik - 4:1. Dmitry Kirichenko scored twice in this game, and now has 99 goals in high-level matches. Thus, Leonid Slutsky’s team interrupted a series of three defeats in a row, and the head coach himself avoided unpleasant conversations about resignation.
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Results of the matches of the 28th round. "Moscow" - "Shinnik" - 4:1 (Kuzmin 1, Kirichenko 57, 71 pen., Semak 88 - Bakos 72) , "Luch-Energia" - "Wings of the Soviets" - 3:2 ( Bazaev 37, D.A. Smirnov 45, Tikhonovetsky 71 - Bulyga 50, Skvernyuk 59) , CSKA - Torpedo - 2:0 (Jo 8 from pen., Olic 64 from pen . ), Spartak ( N) - "Rostov" - 3:1 (Konsedalov 22, Michkov 32, Korchagin 43 - Buznikin 4) , "Lokomotiv" - "Saturn" - 0:0, "Zenit" - "Dynamo" - - 0:0.
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Premier League
| 1. CSKA | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17--6 | 22 |
| 2. "Spartak" N | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15--11 | 18 |
| 3. "Ruby" | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13--9 | 17 |
| 4. "Tom" | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10--7 | 17 |
| 5. "Lokomotiv" | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19--15 | 15 |
| 6. “Wings of the Soviets” | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11--10 | 15 |
| 7. "Moscow" | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12--14 | 14 |
| 8. Spartak M | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 15--11 | 14 |
| 9. Zenit | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14--15 | 13 |
| 10. "Saturn" | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8--4 | 13 |
| 11. “Beam-Energy” | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12--14 | 11 |
| 12. "Amkar" | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5--8 | 10 |
| 13. "Rostov" | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10--13 | 9 |
| 14. Dynamo | 9 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6--10 | 7 |
| 15. "Torpedo" | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6--14 | 7 |
| 16. "Shinnik" | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4--16 | 6 |