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Running in place
Dynamo and Lokomotiv missed a chance to improve their situation
The current round of the national championship has provided an opportunity for lagging but still ambitious clubs to catch up in the standings to the European Cup zone. “Dynamo” and “Lokomotiv” did not take advantage of it: Miodrag Bozovic’s team lost to “Saturn”, and “Loko” for the most part could not win in Tomsk.Event. During a period of calm, the center of football life in Russia moved to Ramenskoye. There, Saturn and its head coach Andrei Gordeev, in an unusual formal suit, received Dynamo Miodrag Bozovic. From the first minutes, the hosts showed that they were not going to be very hospitable. But the “blue and white”, acting at a good pace, made it clear that they intend to finally break the unpleasant tradition and win at least the second match in a row. As a result, Saturn's desire turned out to be higher than Dynamo's capabilities, and the hero of the meeting was Petr Nemov - two accurate free kicks from the former Dynamo player decided the outcome of this meeting.
He put the first ball into the corner shortly before the break. However, the end of the first half was generally eventful. Before going to the locker room, Dynamo managed to equalize the score - Kuranyi used his half chance to score another beautiful goal - and conceded again. Kirichenko scored for the hosts, beating two central defenders of the guests and their goalkeeper in the air.
And in the middle of the second half, the same Nemov proved that the first free kick was not an accident, and again upset Gabulov. And no matter how hard Dynamo tried to save the game, only one of all the chances was realized.
Debut. Thanks to this victory, Saturn managed to break away from the relegation zone, where it was getting quite hot. However, Amkar cooled the situation somewhat with its victory over Krylia Sovetov. And the first goal was scored by Stivica Ristic. The forward of the Macedonian national team attracted the attention of Amkar's selectors with his effective performance for the Uzbek Bundecor (18 goals in 24 championship and cup matches). In the very first match in Russia, Ristic, having successfully played in finishing, demonstrated that statistics is an exact science.
Then only the Krylia Sovetov players scored. But since Evgeny Savin did not differentiate between his own goal and someone else’s, three points ended up in the hosts’ account, and their lead over the 15th-placed Krylia increased to five points.
Intrigue. Rostov is quickly getting rid of the image of the most irreconcilable team. Lately, having a small number of draws is the same as collecting indirect evidence around yourself in the division of home “yours” and away “others” points for victories with your opponents. In Vladikavkaz, “Alania” and “Rostov” really did not want to offend each other, and after a zero result, Oleg Protasov’s team had a strong “troika” in the “draws” column, which should not arouse suspicion.
Tour phrase. “We even joked among ourselves before the game about the head coach’s new suit. But, apparently, the suit is really lucky,” - the main character of the match “Saturn” - “Dynamo” Petr Nemov found the reasons for his sharply increased performance.
Results of matches of the 21st round. "Anji" - "Rubin" - 0:1 (Karadeniz 90) , "Tom" - "Lokomotiv" - 1:1 (Dzyuba 44 - Gatagov 40) , "Amkar" - "Wings of the Soviets" - - 2:1 (Ristic 15, Savin 48 own goal - Savin 45) , "Alania" - "Rostov" - 0:0, "Saturn" - "Dynamo" - 3:2 (Nemov 38, 63, Kirichenko 45 - Kuranyi 43, Dujmovic 83) .