The head coach of Zenit Sergey Semak was removed after the game with Rostov due to claims against the referee, and CSKA called the refereeing of the last meeting with Akhmat a disaster. The main thing about the second round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) – in the material “RBC Sport”
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Dynamo lost the victory by two goals
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“Dynamo” played a draw with the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” in the away match. The meeting of the second round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) ended with a score of 3:3.
Arsen Zakharyan (8th minute), Konstantin Tyukavin (30) and Fedor Smolov (39) scored for Dynamo. Fernando Costanza (35) scored the first goal for the Samarans, Glenn Bale, the defender of the Wings, reduced the gap in the 74th minute of the match, and Benjamin Garre equalized the score in stoppage time of the second half. So, “Wings of the Soviets” bounced back with minus two in the RPL match for the first time since May 2011 (2: 2 with “Rostov”).
Forward Muscovites Smolov played his 300th match in his career in the RPL. He scored his second goal of the new season. In addition, he has nine goals against “Wings of the Soviets” in the RPL – only “Ural” he scored as often.
On June 22, Dynamo was headed by the Czech Marcel Lichka, who previously worked at Orenburg. So far, the new coach has not managed to win a single victory in official meetings: in the first round of the RPL, the “white-blue” lost to Krasnodar (1: 3), then in the group stage match “Fonbet” – the Cup of Russia lost on penalties to “Ural” ( 1:1, 4:5).
After two matches of the championship of Russia, the Samara club scored 4 points, and the Dynamo team with one point are in the second part of the table.
Zenit failed to beat Karpin’s club
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The players of St. Petersburg “Zenith” in the away game on July 29 tied with “Rostov” with a score of 1:1. As part of the guests, Mateo Cassierra scored a goal and put the team ahead (43 minutes), but the hosts forward Nikolay Komlichenko equalized with a 11-meter kick (90+4).
After the final whistle, the head coach of the St. Petersburg football club, Sergei Semak, was sent off for contacting the chief referee of the meeting, Yevgeny Kukulyak, with a question about the game moment.
“Yes, I got a red card. He approached the referee and asked if he had seen the moment with the spikes in the leg of Claudinho. He showed a red card, said that I had no right to approach him. Well, I will know, ”Semak said after the meeting.
For Komlichenko, the St. Petersburg club is a favorite rival in the RPL: the forward scored in five out of seven matches against St. Petersburg in the Russian championship.
For the Colombian Cassiera, this goal scored was the third in the second match of the championship, despite the fact that for the entire last season of the Russian championship, the striker scored only two goals.
In this match, Zenit landed only 6 shots per game – this is their worst result in the RPL since December 2021, when there were also 6 shots against Dynamo. Also, the St. Petersburg club played its worst match since May 2019 on touches in someone else’s penalty area (10).
In this meeting, defender Strahinja Erakovic, who was bought from Red Star, made his debut in Zenit. The 22-year-old Serbian came on as a substitute in the 17th minute instead of Dmitry Chistyakov, who was injured.
“Zenith” and “Rostov” scored 4 points after two rounds: the St. Petersburg club surpasses the Rostovites in goal difference.
Dzyuba’s goal helped Lokomotiv
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Lokomotiv defeated the Voronezh Fakel. The match in Voronezh ended with the score 1:4. In the 13th minute, Artem Dzyuba brought the “railwaymen” forward, but already in the 33rd minute, the forward of “Fakel” Yevgeny Markov equalized the score. In the second half, goals from Nair Tiknizyan (60, 89) and Sergey Pinyaev (67) allowed the Moscow club to crush the hosts of the meeting.
Dzyuba scored his first goal of the new season. Over the past 10 seasons, he managed to score 25 goals with headers – the most in the RPL, the second result is Serdar Azmun (21).
Tiknizyan has scored four goals in three matches for Lokomotiv this season, taking into account the Cup. For the first time in his career, he scored a double in the RPL and became the first defender in the RPL in the 21st century to score in four games in a row.
Pinyaev scored for the first time in his career with effective actions in three RPL matches in a row (2 goals and one assist).
Lokomotiv scored 4 points. “Torch” takes the last place (0).
Scandal in CSKA match
Photo: Official website of PFC CSKA
CSKA won a guest victory over Grozny Akhmat. The match in Grozny ended with the score 2:3. In this meeting, all the goals were scored from the penalty spot. Fedor Chalov scored a hat-trick for the guests (13th minute, 45+1 and 79), Mohamed Konate (27, 45+11) for the hosts.
In the 12th minute, the Grozny club was left with ten men due to the removal of Marat Bystrov, but in stoppage time of the first half, Milan Gayich was removed from CSKA, and in the 96th Akhmat also lost Andrey Semenov, who received a second yellow card.
At the end of the first half, referee Vladislav Bezborodov awarded a penalty to CSKA for Gayich’s foul and showed him a yellow card. Igor Akinfeev parried the blow, but after that the referee watched a repeat of the Serb’s violation and changed the decision, removing Gayich and allowing Akhmat to beat the 11-meter kick, which was converted by Mohamed Konate.
CSKA Communications Director Kirill Breido declared “Match TV” that the club will apply to the expert referee commission (ESK RFU) in connection with the red card shown to Gayich. Also Braido named this situation is a disaster. “I can’t remember a greater lawlessness than the one that the Bezborodov brigade is doing now, rewriting the football rules and the VAR protocol on the go. Catastrophe. Murder. Lawlessness,” Breido wrote.
In the Communications Service of the RFU declaredthat during the match there were problems with communication between the referees in the field and the VAR center in Moscow, but all high-profile episodes “will be carefully studied and evaluated by the refereeing department and the expert refereeing commission.”
Bezborodov repeated the record of the championships of Russia, appointing five penalties. Valentin Ivanov in 1999 delivered the same number of penalty kicks in the match “Rotor” – “Chernomorets”, but only three were realized.
“CSKA” won their first victory of the season, the Grozny club has not yet scored a single point.
Spartak won the second match in a row
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Spartak defeated Baltika in a home match. The meeting in Moscow ended with the score 2:1. The “red-white” goals were scored by Theo Bongonda (43rd minute) and Quincy Promes (84). At Baltika, ex-Manchester United striker Angelo Henriquesa (90) answered with a goal.
Promes chalked up a goal + pass for the 20th time in the Russian Championship. Since 2014, when the Dutchman made his debut in the RPL, no one has managed to do this so many times, the closest pursuer is Artem Dzyuba (17).
This victory was the second in a row since the beginning of the new season of the championship. Spartak started the season with two wins in a row for the first time since the 2016/17 championship season.
Spartak has not lost in home matches in the RPL for 14 matches, Guillermo Abascal’s team has won nine victories at home and drawn five times in the Russian championship – this is their best series since June 2007 – May 2008 under Stanislav Cherchesov (15).
Baltika scored in the top division of the Russian championship for the first time in 25 years: the last time Kaliningraders scored against Zenit was in October 1998.
Spartak scored six points and took second place in the standings, losing to the leading Krasnodar in additional indicators. The Kaliningrad team is in 15th place without scoring a single point.
Author: Alvina Tsakanyan.
2023-07-31 21:09:20
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