Translated material
Spring riot
Losers of the start take revenge
There is a revolution in the Russian Championship. All those who suffered at the start of the season finally realized that their tournament fate is in their hands. All those who until recently were successful were unprepared for the uprising of former losers. The signal for a riot was given in Yaroslavl, where Moscow was struggling with bad luck and a bloodless Shinnik, picked up in Nalchik, where the local Spartak almost defeated the championship leader, but was content with a strong 2:0, and was heard in Ramenskoye, where the coach "Saturn" Gadzhi Gadzhiev saved himself from dismissal.“No, well, I don’t know what to say,” Moscow head coach Oleg Blokhin fumed after a modest 1:0 victory. - I, as a striker, said everything in the locker room now. Even if I had gone out, I would have scored about six times and left. Well, if not six, then three for sure. These goals need to be scored. At least you have to hit the goal!” The first number in the club of scorers, Grigory Fedotov, was not difficult to understand. His team’s forwards failed to implement four one-on-one opportunities with 17-year-old Shinnik goalkeeper Pesyakov, and scored only once, and then after a successful rebound on Pyotr Bystrov. The last time he hit someone else's goal was on September 22 last year. But it seems that the number of chances still exceeded the quality of their implementation, and the “citizens” are now more or less calmly approaching the main match of the season for them. In five days they will have a home match with Krylia Sovetov, the current team of their former coach Leonid Slutsky. Taking into account the fact that Moscow won both of its victories on the road, Oleg Blokhin will have a difficult battle.
The problem of home matches was also acute for Spartak from Nalchik. On the road, Yuri Krasnozhan's team plays very successfully. At home, where counterattacks alone were no longer enough, things were not going well. But when the leader of the national championship comes to visit, there is no shame in playing on defense. Moreover, it brings results.
Rubin has already gotten used to its first place. His players have already gotten used to the idea that they cannot be overtaken in the standings before the summer break, which means that the program for the first part of the distance has already been overfulfilled. Perhaps that’s why in Nalchik it was no longer the same team that spectators see, for example, in Moscow. In the center of the field, Kurban Berdyev no longer had the same order as before, the flanks were not so mobile, and most importantly, Kozko again took his place in the goal. He got the first ball out of the net in the 9th minute, having failed to cope with a lobbed pass. The second - shortly after the break, failing to react to a free-kick. There should have been a third, but Seradze missed the penalty in stoppage time. So the weak point of the current Rubin has now been revealed: meetings with Spartak, no matter Moscow or any other, are fatal for Berdyev.
The capital's Spartak barely escaped Samara during the day. In the first half, there were still enough Muscovites to respond with attack to attack. And even after the hosts opened the scoring with the help of two rebounds, the “red and whites” dealt an equally offensive blow: Maidana’s shot hit the post, after which the ball bounced into the head of the fallen Lobos goalkeeper and crawled back behind the ribbon. After this moment, luck was entirely on the side of the guests. And no matter how many times Jiri Jarosik hit the goal from killer positions, the most he managed to do was to trust the strength of the crossbar of the Samara stadium goal.
After wandering around Britain, the Czech apparently still has to remember how he scored in his time for CSKA. It would be nice for the army team to catch the spirit they had four years ago. In the meantime, Gazzaev’s team is having a hard time winning even against championship outsiders. CSKA managed to concede three goals in the match against Khimki, losing all its colossal advantage in the game by the last minutes of the match. Zhirkov saved the army team from another loss of points. His signature pass was stopped by the guests only with a violation of the rules, and Dudu, the only one of the army players who had the courage to take the penalty, albeit with difficulty, converted the shot from eleven meters.
The main hero of the meeting was 17-year-old Alan Dzagoev. The midfielder, who had played only a couple of minutes before, made two assists and scored a goal in his real debut match. To shake up the team, Valery Gazzaev can only throw 17-year-old backups into battle. Other fresh blood does not take root in the current CSKA.
Alexander Kerzhakov also has difficulty finding himself in Dynamo. The forward's leadership qualities are all right - hardly anyone can handle the responsibility of yelling at his teammates for an inaccurate pass better than him. The striker, on whom the club spent almost the entire budget of the winter transfer campaign, is not doing so well with goals. Once again, Alexander Kerzhakov did not show himself to be anything special at the opponent’s goal. And Dynamo, in those matches when they don’t escalate the situation at the opponent’s goal, almost always lose. The defeat from Saturn was the fifth consecutive match for Andrei Kobelev’s team without a win.
Results of matches of the 10th round . "Terek" - "Amkar" - 0:1 ( Kushev 7 ), CSKA - "Khimki" - 4:3 ( Krasich 9, Ignashevich 21, Dzagoev 38, Dudu 89 from pen. - Nizamutdinov 14, 87 , Czech 45 ), "Shinnik" - "Moscow" - 0:1, "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Rubin" - 2:0 (Kalimullin 10, Kisenkov 59) , "Lokomotiv" - "Tom" - 2:0, "Saturn" - "Dynamo" - 2:0 ( Topich 32, Kirichenko 45 ), "Wings of the Soviets" - "Spartak" - 1:1 ( Escobar 40 - Maidana 45 ).
Premier League
| 1. "Ruby" | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 16--8 | 24 |
| 2. "Amkar" | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12--6 | 19 |
| 3. "Lokomotiv" | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12--5 | 18 |
| 4. "Spartak" | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 19--13 | 17 |
| 5. “Wings of the Soviets” | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14--10 | 15 |
| 6. CSKA | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11--7 | 15 |
| 7. Dynamo | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13--13 | 15 |
| 8. “Spartak-Nalchik” | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9--11 | 13 |
| 9. "Terek" | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 8--14 | 12 |
| 10. "Saturn" | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11--10 | 12 |
| 11. "Tom" | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8--12 | 11 |
| 12. "Moscow" | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11--13 | 10 |
| 13. "Shinnik" | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12--17 | 8 |
| 14. Zenit | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7--7 | 7 |
| 15. "Beam-Energy" | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7--13 | 6 |
| 16. Khimki | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13--24 | 6 |