Krasnodar did not know defeats until the 13th round of the RPL and was rushing to the championship at least according to the results of the first round. However, the trip to Moscow radically changed the state of affairs in the league.
28 points in 12 matches, only seven goals conceded, and for the first time in five years, talk about ending Zenit's hegemony does not sound like a fairy tale. Krasnodar is very good: one of the strongest squads in the league, a fusion of experience and youth, super scorer John Cordoba, the brain of the team Eduard Spertsyan and a wall at their gates in the person of Junior Alonso and Matvey Safonov, as well as a bright game staged by Serbian specialist Vladimir Ivich. On October 29, Galitsky's team came to the most "friendly" team in the country.
The fact is that over the last 10 matches, CSKA has accumulated as many as 9 draws. Moreover, the rivals were both top teams (Zenit, Spartak) and championship outsiders (Sochi, Fakel). The army men have been in a very unstable state in recent months: injuries, lack of depth of the squad, tense relations between the leadership and head coach Fedotov. Few people could have guessed that it was the capital's team that would dictate the course of the game.
Before the starting whistle, CSKA players appeared on the field in special T-shirts with words of support for Army midfielder Maxim Mukhin, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the match with Rubin and was out for at least six months. Abbosbek Fayzullayev was also recognized by the red-blue fans as the best player of the club in September, in honor of which the Uzbek midfielder received a special award. After that, the match of the tour started.
The first half of the half, the teams looked at each other and the main fight was in the center of the field. The first really scoring moment happened in the eighteenth minute of the match. Krasnodar midfielder Kadi gave a corner kick to another Brazilian legionnaire of the Bulls, Vitor Tormenu. He shot his head into the corner of the goal, but Milan Gayic took the ball from the goal ribbon. If not for the rescue of the Serb, the first goal would certainly have happened, since Igor Akinfeev did not have time to react to this blow.
Then CSKA seized the initiative and began to regularly approach the opponent's penalty area. At first, in the 28th minute, Fedor Chalov hit his head from outside the goalie's zone, but Matvey Safonov managed to fold up and repel a difficult blow. And after thirteen minutes, even the goalkeeper and captain of Krasnodar could not save his team from a goal. Fayzullaev beat Volkov on the left flank, gave a pass to the penalty area to the same Chalov, who took the ball and sent it to the far corner of the goal. This ended the first half.
Already ten minutes after the break, the defender of the army Ilya Agapov beat from a killer position from the penalty area, had the opportunity to double the score and remove all questions about the winner of the match. However, Safonov again rescued the Bulls and left them in the game.
After that, the CSKA players were physically tired and began to give the initiative to the guests. Krasnodar began to make dangerous attacks on the gates of the Moscow team over and over again. At first, Spertsyan had a moment in the 65th minute, but Akinfeev calmly knocked the ball aside, and already in the 77th minute Agapov could become the antihero of the match: first, an unforgettable scoring moment, and then a sawn-off shot at his penalty area. Krivtsov, who had just come on as a substitute, hit the goal, but again Igor Akinfeev saved the army men. Three minutes later, the 88th number of the Bulls again threatened the opponent's goal - rolled the ball into empty Cordoba. Kellwen made a heroic takeaway. At the very end of the match, in the 88th minute, the most dangerous maneuver of the guests happened. They quickly played a corner, and Lukas Olasa struck a shot into the far corner. Saved the barbell. The final whistle. CSKA was lucky.
It is worth noting a couple of interesting decisions by Fedotov, which became key factors in the victory of the capital club. CSKA as a whole tactically looked stronger both in the formation of attacks and in positional defense. Ivic tried to confuse the red and blue with a double flank in the person of Volkov and Kadi, who constantly changed places, shifted to the center and tried to run behind the defenders, but Gayic and Agapov competently passed the players to each other and the Serbian specialist's idea failed. The Bulls could not create anything positionally and almost every possession, especially in the first half, was reduced to a throw to Cordoba. However, Fedotov also outplayed his colleague from Krasnodar here, ordering Moises to personally take care of the Colombian for the entire match.
Cordoba is one of the best strikers in the RPL. He scored six goals in this championship draw, many of which were victorious. A big striker often needs only a couple of moments to realize one of them and bring three points to his team. Power struggle and speed are the two main qualities of the Krasnodar legionnaire. An excellent solution was to put no less dimensional and unyielding Moises to confront the Colombian. For ninety minutes, the Brazilian followed his counterpart everywhere and did not allow him to create a single dangerous moment, which is why he received the lowest score for the match among the players of both teams (5.9 from WhoScored).
Despite the fact that the author of the goal, Fedor Chalov, received the award for the best player of the match, the head coach of Krasnodar singled out Akinfeev as the main culprit of his team's first defeat of the season. "Of course, the goalkeeper of CSKA was the best today. Chalov scored a fantastic goal. He's a great striker. He picked a great moment for the goal. But there is absolutely no question who is the best player of the match. It's Akinfeev, obviously," Ivich told reporters after the match.
Fedotov called the victory of his team "deserved", noted the dedication of the players, a bright game and followed the example of his colleague, noting the permanent captain of CSKA: "We dominated, pressed well and had moments from that. We must pay tribute to their goalkeeper, who helped out his team in several moments, as did our Igor, who also played masterfully and left his goal intact.
When we led, we began to act more compactly, in the middle block. But the opponent pushed us a little into the penalty area, and we didn't finish those episodes a little bit when it was necessary to bring quick attacks to their logical conclusion," Match TV quotes Fedotov as saying.
According to the results of the 13th round of the RPL "Krasnodar" continues to lead the standings, having 28 points in its asset. CSKA also rose to fifth place and equaled Dynamo in points. The fraternal clubs have 21 points each, but the "blue and white" are higher due to the victory in a personal meeting.
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