"Sileness will become a legend"

It seemed, something like that-supporting vitality-did not have enough Spartak to successfully complete the European Cup campaign so joyfully begun. Remember how Spartak won Marseille at the beginning of the season? Then it seemed that Marseille would not become Muscovites to interfere with the playoffs of the Champions League, and the Chelsea did not seem so to the case. A formidable rival .

But further events put everything in their place. “Chelsea” (twice), and then “Marseille” clearly demonstrated what the Champions League is, and where it has the place of Spartak. That's right, the third place did not go out in the group tournament, that is, in the Europa League.

By the way, this is very fair: it is in this, secondary class, but rapidly gaining popularity in the wide European football masses, the Zenit and CSKA are more than successfully playing. Spartak, if you are lucky with a draw and in the spring playoffs, will get an opponent suitable in class, there will be obviously chances at the higher stages of the European League.

True, until spring you still have to survive and understand how Spartak will look like, its players and coaches.

The head coach of Spartak, who was one of his most striking players in the past, simply has no experience in such an important post

In essence, the reason for the failure of the "Spartak" of the Ligocapian campaign is quite obvious. This reason has a name - Valery Karpin. The head coach of Spartak, who was in the past one of its brightest players, simply has no experience in such an important post. When he was appointed, it looked like a “invitation of the commissar” - his predecessors had much more serious work experience, but Karpin imagined the Spartak leadership a certain symbol of the “Spartak spirit”, sung in the Belchic and near -Social Arts, but not very intelligible in essence. The present times are not very good in relation to such "sincere", "romantic" - name as you want! - moods. The current football loves professionalism.

“Let me!” Other critics will tell me. “But is the fourth place of Spartak in the Russian Championship not a worthy confirmation of the professionalism of the Spartak coach?”

I think no. First of all, because the Russian championship is weak. Probably, many Spartak fans agree with me, if I say. that for Spartak the current situation is far from the most honorable. In the Russian championship, at a more or less serious level, only Zenit and CSKA, Rubin are now playing after the transition to Zenit of his pronounced leaders - Semak and Bukharov - openly lost ground. And "Spartak", which, during the season, has spent several bright matches, it seems to me, frankly did not calculate strength. And this is the problem primarily coaching. All year in the team of Karpin, only Brazilians played truly cool-Wellinton, Ari, Alex, Ibsen. Having bought from Dynamo the Kombarov brothers, Spartak, of course, intensified, but could no longer do anything radical. The absence of Spartakites in the Russian national team is very eloquent, there is really no one to attract there from the current team. As a result, it turns out: there is a game with the Brazilians - everything is fine, but as soon as the autumn cold (this is only one of the potential reasons, I think there are much more) forces in the Brazilians, there is no one to build a game. So “Spartak” “burns”, letting 3 goals from strong teams - from Chelsea, that from CSKA, that from Marseille. But in the latter case, 0: 3 could not work if the Spartak game was built if the team was in order, and not a scatter and span, only because the game of the Brazilians clearly does not go for a day. This is a purely coaching miscalculation, no matter how much Karpin said that "the game was equal."

I am not a supporter of too strong statements, butthis, for example, other Spartak veterans think about Karpin's coaching .

And what the fans think - we saw during the match, on the banner addressed to the players of Spartak: "Your lack of will become a legend" ...