Broadcast empty table and team meeting in the locker room

The match with Orenburg ended for Spartak with another setback. This is not to say that the team had no chance of scoring more and scoring at least a point, but there was no noticeable red-white thought in the game. Saturated defensive orders of the opponent's hosts were difficult, and even the bulk in the end did not help them equalize.

The fourth consecutive defeat in the RPL was a sentence for Oleg Kononov. Fans carried it even earlier. During the match, they with enviable regularity called on the coach to resign. Of course, there were some offensive chants about the jacket. And one of the sectors of the red-white completely announced a boycott and kept silent the whole game.

And after the meeting, Spartak seemed to take a pause before the dismissal of the head coach. Firstly, Kononov did not attend the obligatory flash interview, although all the participants were waiting for the coach to announce his resignation. At a press conference, journalists were forced to wait for a specialist for almost an hour - he also did not come there, although about 1000 people watched the online broadcast of an actually empty table.

In addition, the whole team did not leave the locker room for a long time. According to media reports, Kononov and his assistants were there, as well as the club’s general director Thomas Zorn and president Leonid Fedun. Rumors of resignation spread more and more actively. And soon it was officially announced. And only at that moment when the news was posted on the club's website, the players left the locker room.

The management of FC Spartak-Moscow accepted the resignation of Oleg Kononov, who applied for the dismissal from the post of head coach of Spartak immediately after the match with Orenburg due to unsatisfactory team results. For the next match with FC Krasnodar, the team will be prepared by the acting head coach Sergey Kuznetsov, ”the press service of the Moscow club said in a statement.

“Now in Spartak is a very difficult situation”

Kononov himself did not go out to journalists after official information appeared. The coaches were no longer seen in the openings of the Otkrytie Arena, but the camera at the exit from the stadium filmed as a specialist leaves the arena that has not become happy for him.

As for the red and white players, only George Djikia, who looked depressed, agreed to answer the questions of the media as a captain. At the same time, the defender refused to discuss what was happening in the locker room, but admitted that initially everyone was going to just talk about the outcome of the meeting.

“I want to tell the fans to support us both in bad and in good times. I don’t know why the team is losing. It just happens. All the players fight and try, but something does not work out. We will continue to work and will definitely improve our game. I was comfortable working with Kononov. Everything was fine with the team, everyone tried to perform tasks, installations. If there is no result, then everything does not work out. Now the situation is very difficult in Spartak, ”Jikia said bluntly.

The football player also talked about talking with angry fans after the match.

“They were unhappy with our results, from this screaming, remarking, whistling. There were even insults. Today everyone came up and thanked them, but the three of us considered it necessary to come closer and talk with the fans, ”Jikia added.

They asked the captain about the next head coach of Spartak, but he refused to talk about it.

“For my part, to discuss such a thing would be incorrect, but you all know very well that the result is always important. We wanted our game to go as best as possible, we wanted to earn points and improve the position in the table, but alas. The gap is big, but in football everything happens. We’ll do the calculations after round 30, ”the player concluded.

For the next match with Krasnodar, the team will be prepared by Kononov’s assistant Sergei Kuznetsov, but the likelihood that he will remain in the post of chief is small, since the specialist represents Kononov’s team and took his place forcibly. Thus, the leadership of the red-white as soon as possible will find a replacement for the coach.