There are premium, there are no victories

In the third round of the Champions League Lokomotiv and Zenit, the world from Atletico and Lazio diverged. And Krasnodar lost to Seville

After two starting rounds in the piggy bank of domestic teams, there were only two points for three. At the same time, none of the six fights passed according to the Russian scenario. And each time we inferior to the opponent both tactically and physically. “Lokomotiv” and “Krasnodar” produced anyone in Leipzig and Renna on moral and volitional in October. “Zenith” neither at home with “Bruges”, nor visiting Borussia, did not show these desired qualities.

But the most interesting thing is that on the sidelines of excuses for a failed debut, they sound like this: they say, in all European leagues that are ahead of the RPL according to the rating, there was a great break between seasons, while football players competing in the Pryakin championship began their duties, having rested only 15 days. The excuse, I must say, amazing.

If 20 years ago we complained that we were unsuccessfully in European competitions, because muddy mud in the spring-autumn system and suffer from a winter three-month pause, during which our guys lose their skill and tone,

Now the trouble, it turns out, is that the guys did not have time to recover after the end of the Covid tournament-2019/2020.

With the same success, you can also have native fans who have a chance to support their favorite teams in stadiums today, to blame that with their shouts they interfere with concentrating not gaining condition to the “wizards” ...

Loko fans, however, during the vigorous duel in Cherkizov, traditionally spent a lot of energy to once again persuade the high leadership to resign the General Director Vasily Kiknadze. However, the railway workers in the BUTS, oddly enough, the odious manager does not interfere with the FINT. They did not give up their hands with Bavaria, and with the formidable “Atletico”, who performed in the two finals of the Champions League over the past six years, they chopped to death, not allowing us to distinguish between the cool Uruguis Luis Suarezu. The Russian goalkeeper Marinato Guillerme, in the second half, dragging a couple of “dead” balls did not fail. Of course, the red-green helped to get away from the defeat and replenish the treasury for a million euros, a rather controversial penalty, appointed by the French referee Bastien for the non-obvious game of Ector Errera, but before the Spanish penalty, it was still necessary to poke off. By the way, the Muscovites praised the opening account in the match of Jose Himenes: “We climbed out of the skin, but Lokomotiv did an excellent work in defense and correctly used counterattacks.” He attacked the opponent and did not complain about the eleven -meter, which Anton Miranchuk realized, and the coach of the Madrid Diego Simeon: “We were blocked by all the ways to the gate, so the result of the meeting is logical.”

Everything logically ended in St. Petersburg, where, under the closed roof of Petrovsky, Lazio butted Zenit, which only a three-point attempt left a chance to compete for leaving the group. And specifically to Sergey Semak, who had quarreled with the leaders, Dziuba and Rakitsky, it was necessary to prove to Alexei Miller and Alexander Medvedev that it was too early to dismiss him.

But Sergey Bogdanovich again did not set his wards in a victorious way. The Italian gang, which lost due to positive tests on the Covid-19, the main fighters, led by the best scorer of all Europe, Chiro Immobil and Strakoshi goalkeeper, had to be frightened and pressed without fear and reproach. “Zenith”, having scored a beautiful ball with the efforts of Kuzyaev, Dziuba and Erokhin, decided to press the gas, but on the brake after the break. And the Romans recouped without any problems: the form of the fate of Mikhail Kerzhakov, the ex-former “Lokomotiv” Felipe Kaedo, thoroughly. At the same time, Semak at a press conference, answering the question of why his team lost to the semi-cutting “Lazio” in all respects, offered to calculate those who, for various reasons, could not go on the “Zenith” field ... I am curious different: why buy Marcus Wendel for 20 million euros and release it for three minutes?

But Krasnodar, without having such stars, in 240 seconds on the empty Ramon Sanchean Pishuan twice sent Seville to Knockdown (Suleimanov masterfully performed the penalty area, and Marcus Berg - a penalty). The German judge Felix Bery sent to the third knockdown of the hosts, removing the defender Navas under the curtain of the half. It seemed that the cartridge Sergei Galitsky would finally uncorn the bottle of champagne in honor of the First South Victoria. However, in the end, the stress clearly had to relieve stress with a stronger drink: even by ten, the Spanish Toreadors managed to not only catch up early, who had taken the “bulls” who had taken them into the success, but also to inflict the third murderous injection to them. “If we want to achieve something in this life, it is impossible to act passively in the numerical majority ...”-Murad Musaev, the leader of the “black and green”, summed up the outcome of an inglorious battle.

Our clubs have almost three weeks to work on errors.