Zenit will host Ural, Spartak will play at home with Akhmat.
Source: FC Zenith”
TASS, 26 August. The program of the sixth round of the World – Russian Premier League (RPL) will continue on Saturday with four matches. On this day, the games Zenit – Ural, Rubin – Dynamo, Spartak – Akhmat and Pari Nizhny Novgorod – Rostov will take place.
In the first match of the day, Zenit St. Petersburg will host Ural Yekaterinburg at home, the meeting will be held at the Gazprom Arena and will begin at 15:00 Moscow time. Ural is approaching the match with the best start in the RPL in the history of the club, the Yekaterinburgers scored 13 points in five starting rounds and take second place in the standings of the Russian championship. Zenit stalled a little at the start, the blue-white-blues have 10 points, the team is in fourth position.
The head coach of Zenit Sergey Semak noted the strengths of the Urals before the championship match. “The team is not just at the top of the standings – this is a consequence of the quality of the players and the level of their tactical training thanks to the head coach,” said Semak, whose commentary is given by the press service of the club. – Last year they also had a stretch, when the team went almost half of the season without defeat. This year “Ural” also shows a reliable and stable game in all components. We have a very difficult match against a good club.”
“Ural” and “Zenith” will play the 26th full-time match in the championships of Russia. During this time, the Yekaterinburg team has never beaten rivals from St. Petersburg. On account of “Zenith” 21 wins, 4 more meetings ended in a draw. The last time Ural – then the team was called Uralmash – defeated Zenit on June 27, 1991, the meeting was held as part of the USSR championship. The last time Ural took points away from Zenit was on November 7, 2021, when the meeting in Yekaterinburg ended with a score of 0:0.
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Paris Nizhny Novgorod – Rostov
In another match of the day, Rostov will play away with Pari Nizhny Novgorod, the meeting will start at 20:00 Moscow time. With seven points in five matches, the Rostovites are in eighth place in the RPL standings. Pari HH is in 13th position with four points. Last season, the teams played three matches in all tournaments, Rostovites were the strongest in all. Rostov defeated Pari NN in the RPL games (2:1, 4:3), and also turned out to be stronger in the second stage match of the ¼ finals of the playoffs of the path of the regions Fonbet – Russian Cup (1:0). The last time Pari NN won against Rostov on April 2, 2022, the meeting of the Russian Championship ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of the Nizhny Novgorod club.
Spartak will try to rehabilitate itself after two defeats in a row
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Spartak – Akhmat
Also on Saturday, Spartak Moscow will play at home with Akhmat Grozny, the meeting will begin at 19:30 Moscow time. The Red-and-Whites are in sixth place with nine points in the RPL standings, while the Grozny team is in ninth position with six points. Spartak gave the best start in the history of the club, starting the season with four victories in a row in all tournaments, but then lost to Ural (2:3) and Zenit (1:3). Akhmat continues its journey with a new head coach, on August 18 this post was taken by Miroslav Romashchenko, who replaced Sergey Tashuev.
The teams played two matches last season, both meetings ended in a draw. The last time Spartak defeated Akhmat at home was on December 4, 2021, that game ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the red-whites. Akhmat last beat Spartak on the road on September 16, 2018, then the meeting ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the Grozny team.
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Rubin – Dynamo
In another match of the day, the capital’s “Dynamo” will play on the road with the Kazan “Rubin”, the meeting will begin at 17:30 Moscow time. The blue-and-whites are third with 10 points in the RPL standings, Rubin is in 12th position with five points. Dynamo can increase the winning streak in all tournaments to five matches, earlier the Moscow team beat Zenit (3:2), Kaliningrad Baltika (2:0) and CSKA (2:1) in the RPL, and also turned out to be stronger Krasnodar in the Russian Cup game. Rubin started the season unsuccessfully, the team failed to win in six starting games in all tournaments (two draws, four losses). In the last round, the Kazan team won the first victory of the season, beating the Samara Krylya Sovetov (2:1) at home.
The program of the sixth round of the RPL started on Friday, on this day CSKA played a draw with Orenburg on the road with a score of 1: 1, and Krasnodar played away with the Voronezh Fakel (0: 0). On August 27, the Wings of the Soviets – Baltika and Sochi – Lokomotiv games will take place.
2023-08-25 21:39:22
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