RPL 27th Round: CSKA vs Rubin Preview and Match Details

The RPL tour match is the match between CSKA Moscow and Rubin Kazan; the meeting will be held at the VEB Arena and will start at 20:30 Moscow time. The teams are neighbors in the RPL standings. CSKA is in eighth place with 38 points, Rubin is in ninth place with 37 points. The game of the first part of the Russian Championship ended in a draw with a score of 0:0.

Football fans have recently shown great interest in Rubin midfielder Ruslan Bezrukov. On April 24, the Kazan team defeated Zenit St. Petersburg on the road with a score of 2:0 in the game of the 24th round of the RPL. After the match, on Match TV, Bezrukov jokingly said that he was waiting for “money involved” from Krasnodar. The General Secretary of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Maxim Mitrofanov initiated a review of Bezrukov’s words with the Ethics Committee of the RFU, the meeting will be held after the May holidays.

The last match between CSKA and Rubin in Moscow, which took place on March 20, 2022, ended with a victory for the military club with a score of 6:1. The last time Rubin beat CSKA was away on August 22, 2020, when the meeting ended with a score of 2:1 for the Kazan team. CSKA approaches the game with a streak of four games without a win in all competitions (two draws, two defeats), the last time the army club won against Baltika (2:0) in the match Fonbet – Russian Cup on April 16.

Also on Monday, Lokomotiv Moscow will play at home against Rostov, the meeting will start at 20:30 Moscow time. The railway workers are fifth in the RPL standings with 41 points. Rostov is in seventh position with 40 points. Lokomotiv and Rostov will play their fourth game this season; the Rostovites won the match of the first part of the Russian Championship (1:0). In the Russian Cup, the teams changed victory, Rostov was stronger at home with a score of 2:1, Lokomotiv won at home with a score of 3:1.

Zenit in the fight for the championship

In another game of the day, St. Petersburg Zenit will play away against Voronezh Fakel, the game will start at 18:00 Moscow time. The meeting of the first part of the Russian championship ended with the victory of the St. Petersburg team with a score of 2:0. Zenit continues to fight for the championship, the team has 50 points, the same number for Krasnodar and Dynamo Moscow. In the event of a tie at the end of the 30 rounds of the Russian Championship, the places of the teams in the final table will be determined based on the results of head-to-head meetings. This season, Dynamo beat Zenit twice (3:2, 1:0), but lost to Krasnodar (1:3). Zenit beat Krasnodar (2:1), the second match ended in a draw (1:1). In the 30th round of the RPL, Krasnodar Dynamo will play at home.

“Fakel” continues to fight to keep his registration in the RPL; The teams that take the 13th and 14th place in the RPL table will play the next rounds with the fourth and third team of Melbet – the First League, respectively. The games will be held on May 29 and June 1.

The 15th and 16th place finishers in the RPL table will spend the next season in the First League, and will be replaced by the top two teams in the second strongest division of the Russian competition.

In the first game of the day, Ural will play at home against Baltika, the meeting will start at 15:45 Moscow time. “Ural” with 25 points is in second place, 15th place in the table of the RPL. Baltika is in 14th position with 26 points. The match of the teams in the first round ended with the victory of Ural with a score of 1:0.

The program of the 27th round of the RPL started on Saturday, on this day Orenburg beat Krylya Sovetov at home (2:1), Akhmat Grozny beat Krasnodar away (1:0). On May 5, Dynamo turned out to be stronger at home than Sochi (3: 2), Spartak played a draw with Paris NN (0: 0).