Translated material
Red and white slide
Spartak gave its fans a holiday
“Spartak” won its second victory in a row, with consultant Oleg Romantsev listed as an accomplice. The three points turned out to be difficult - the national champion Rubin was defeated away. By the end of the 6th round, there was only one undefeated team left in the championship.Scandal. The zero in the “defeat” column for Zenit is still conditional. The decision of the CDC not to give St. Petersburg a technical 0:3 for violating the limit on foreign players caused a protest from Lokomotiv. The “railroad workers” are planning to appeal to the appeal committee in the coming days, although they do not seem to be counting too much on success.
In turn, the hastily convened bureau of the RFU executive committee established punishment for clubs that risk repeating Zenit’s mistake. From now on, for the appearance of seven or more foreign players on the field in Premier League competitions, the offending club will be awarded a defeat with a score of 0:3 and a fine of 500 thousand rubles will be imposed, and its opponent will win with a score of 3:0, the official statement says. message from the RFU. If the violation occurs again, the team will be removed from the championship altogether.
At the same time, the Russian Football Union appointed the main culprits for the scandal. The entire refereeing team that officiated the match between Lokomotiv and Zenit was removed from the list of referees working at the national championship matches in the first round. Colleagues of the disqualified Gvardis, Khodeev, Malorodov and Arslanbekov were already indignant. The KFA protests did not lead to anything, but judge Igor Egorov said that he was ready to go on strike until the RFU executive committee changes its decision, and harshly criticized the work of Vitaly Mutko as head of the RFU.
Event. Spartak's second victory in a row would not have looked so significant if it had not been won in Kazan, and without the participation of Oleg Romantsev. The former head coach of the “red-whites” did not go to visit Rubin, but over the phone he congratulated general director Valery Karpin on his success.
Karpin's team achieved success, by the way, without demonstrating Spartak football. The Muscovites in Kazan chose the tactic of playing on counterattacks, and the surprised Rubin did not find how to respond. This is what distinguishes the current Spartak from the team of two weeks ago. As the football players themselves note, under Laudrup, theoretical classes rarely examined the opponents’ game; now both “Terek” and “Rubin” were broken down into components.
Sensation. Despite all the fever, Spartak scored exactly the same number of points as CSKA at the start of the season. The army team manages to lose to opponents from the bottom of the standings. Following Tom, Zico's team lost to Rostov. At the same time, the victory of the southerners looked completely deserved. The Rostov team created a lot of scoring chances at Akinfeev’s goal and, in addition, did not convert the penalty. CSKA, in turn, rarely made visiting goalkeeper Mandyrkin worry, and even scored his own goal after the Rostov defender cut the ball into his own goal.
The winning goal was scored by Hong Yong Cho from North Korea, who previously played in Serbia and ended up in Rostov last August. In March, until the last moment, it was unknown whether the Communist Party of the DPRK would give permission to its citizen to return to Russia, but in the end, the captain of the national team was nevertheless announced for Rostov for this season.
Bombardier. Artem Kontsevoy's double against the most conceding team in the championship brought Spartak from Nalchik the long-awaited first victory. The Belarusian forward was once considered the hope of Spartak Moscow, but five years ago he went back to his homeland. After playing a little in BATE, and then setting several scoring records in MTZ-RIPO, Kontsevoy received a second chance in the Russian Premier League. In Spartak from Nalchik, the competition for a place in the team is not so high, and goals are valued no less than in Moscow six years ago.
Tour phrase . “We don’t care how Koller scores. The main thing is to score,” Krylia Sovetov defender Jiri Jarosik does not see any problems in the fact that his friend and compatriot Jan Koller, at 202 centimeters tall, scores more with his legs rather than with his head. Having successfully struck Dynamo's goal from the penalty line, the Czech forward brought the Samara club into the championship lead.
Results of the 6th round matches. "Kuban" - "Lokomotiv" - ?:?, "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Amkar" - 4:1 ( Kontsevoy 30, 67, Kisenkov 40, Gogua 47 - Sikimich 82 ), "Rubin" - - Spartak - 0:2 ( Strantsl 49, Welliton 61 ), Dynamo - Krylya Sovetov - 0:1 ( Koller 28 ), Zenit - Khimki - 4:2 ( Trivunovich 8 - own goal, Semshov 28, Tekke 62, Pogrebnyak 87 - Maksimov 45, Antipenko 81 ), "Terek" - "Saturn" - 1:1 ( Gvazava 26 - Evseev 46 ), "Moscow" - "Tom" - 2:1 ( Bracamonte 44, Yakubko 75 - Kornilenko 36 ), CSKA - "Rostov" - 1:2 ( Rozhkov 18 - own goal - Lebedenko 43, Hong Yong Cho 49 ).
Russian Championship
| 1. “Wings of the Soviets” | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7--2 | 13 |
| 2. Zenit | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11--5 | 12 |
| 3. "Ruby" | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8--3 | 11 |
| 4. "Moscow" | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6--3 | 11 |
| 5. CSKA | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11--4 | 10 |
| 6. Spartak M | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8--5 | 10 |
| 7. "Rostov" | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4--3 | 9 |
| 8. Dynamo | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5--7 | 9 |
| 9. "Terek" | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4--5 | 8 |
| 10. "Tom" | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3--6 | 7 |
| 11. "Kuban" | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3--6 | 7 |
| 12. "Lokomotiv" | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6--9 | 6 |
| 13. "Amkar" | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2--5 | 6 |
| 14. "Spartak" N | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5--6 | 5 |
| 15. "Saturn" | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5--9 | 5 |
| 16. Khimki | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5--15 | 1 |