The return of CSKA to the top three, sensations in Kazan and Rostov and Lutsenko's goal in the fifth match in a row: what did the 27th round of the RPL remember

The seventh ball of Melkadze and the success of Akhmat

Akhmat away rehabilitated for a devastating defeat from CSKA and defeated Tambov. Thanks to this, Igor Shalimov's wards scored 30 points and beat opponents in the standings, moving to 13th place. In the first half, the teams exchanged goals from the penalty spot, and in the second half, after a pass from the left flank, Felipe Viseu finished. For the football player "Udinese" this ball was the first in the RPL. Brazilian forward replenished the structure of Grozny on loan in January 2020.

The owners also distinguished rented footballer. Georgy Melkadze was unable to take part in the game with Spartak because of the peculiarities of the lease agreement with the red and white, but he successfully opposed Grozny. The striker scored the seventh goal of the season and reached tenth place in the scorers race.

The ninth goal with Lutsenko's head and the achievement of Popovich

Could not repeat his success and Arsenal. Like the Tambovs, in the last round he created a sensation and beat Dynamo, but in the current round he could not cope with one of the main outsiders of the championship. “Wings of the Soviets” won the first victory under the leadership of Andrei Talalayev and for the first time this season burst into four goals. And three of them fit in 12 minutes.

One of the main creators of success was Denis Popovich. The midfielder himself distinguished himself with a direct free-kick and helped to score Vitaly Lystsova and Dejan Radonichy, gaining three points in one match for the first time in his career. After the pause, the third goal was recorded by Maxim Glushenkov, and the author of the pass was Anton Zinkovsky. For the midfielder, this program became the eighth, which allowed him to reach third place in the list of the best RPL assistants. The owners noted Alexander Denisov and Yevgeny Lutsenko, and the striker not only extended the scoring series to five meetings, but also updated the RPL record for the number of goals with his head for the season.

The combination of ex-Petersburgers and the success of Azmun

Sochi did everything in its power to spoil the Zenit celebration of the championship, but did not succeed. The only goal of the guests was organized by a trio of football players who a year ago played for Petersburgers - Zabolotny, Poloz and Kokorin. True, unlike the other two, Alexander has a chance to return to the Northern capital in a few weeks. The owners clearly lacked Branislav Ivanovich, who had left for his homeland due to family unhappiness.

Nevertheless, the newly made champions still prevailed and extended the unbeaten run to 16 matches. First, Artyom Dziuba gave the 12th assist and assisted Malkoy, and then Serdar Azmun spoke his word. The Iranian has 14 precision strikes. This allowed him not only to share with Lutsenko the second line in the scorer race, but also to take sixth place in goals in the history of the RPL among legionnaires. With 56 goals, he beat another former Zenit striker Hulk. More at Welliton, Quincy Promes, Seydoux Doumbia, Danny and Wagner Love.

At the end of the meeting, the rewarding of the Russian football champions for the 2019/20 season took place, in which the RFU President Alexander Dyukov, RPL head Sergey Pryadkin, Gazprom’s board chairman Alexei Miller and St. Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov took part. At the same time, the head coach of Zenit Sergey Semak also made a speech.

Successful Chalov series and the dedication of Goncharenko

Away CSKA took a convincing revenge against Orenburg for the defeat in the second round of last season, which then virtually deprived the team of chances to get into the Champions League. As in the previous round, the army team scored four unanswered goals, as a result of which their goal balance in the last three matches was 10: 0. At the same time, Viktor Goncharenko led the team from the edge, whose presence at the match was in doubt due to the death of his mother. It was to her that the Belarusian mentor devoted victory in the 27th round of the RPL.

Chalov scored in the second game in a row and, with 34 goals, came in tenth on the list of top scorers in CSKA history. By this indicator, he beat Roland Gusev, and in the near future he can catch up with Sergei Ignashevich and Ivica Olic. Nikola Vlašić extended his productive series to three meetings, as well as Ivan Oblyakov and Georgy Schennikov noted with accurate shots. For the defender, he became the ninth in his career and the first in almost 19 months. The last time he hit the gates of Real Madrid in December 2018.

The collapse of Tedesco and the 100th match of Anton Miranchuk

Spartak extended the unbeaten run, failing to get the upper hand over Lokomotiv in an official match for the first time in two years. The score was struck with a nape with the back of the head of the red and white Esekiel Ponce, who has now 11 goals in all tournaments this season. A few minutes later he was answered by the best sniper of the railway workers of the summer segment of the season. In the last five meetings, Alexey Miranchuk scored five times and set a personal performance record. Previously, he had never scored ten goals during one championship.

Exactly half of them the Lokomotiv midfielder scored from the penalty spot. This was no exception. Thus, Miranchuk rehabilitated for an unsuccessful blow from a point in the confrontation with Sochi. Alex himself earned the standard and actually provoked the removal of Domenico Tedesco. The mentor of Spartak was so indignant at the decision of Sergey Lapochkin that he began to actively express his dissatisfaction. For this, he successively received two yellow cards and was expelled from the bench. Now he faces a fine and a skipping of several games. It is also known that in the next meeting Zelimkhan Bakaev, awarded the eighth “mustard plaster”, will definitely not help red and white.

Among other things, this day was significant for Anton Miranchuk, who took the field for the 100th time in a Lokomotiv T-shirt. True, in the current championship the indicators of the 11th number of red-green are more than modest. At the moment, he has two goals and one transfer in 14 RPL games.

The character of “Ufa” and the 12th penalty into the goal of “Rostov”

“Rostov” in his field lost to “Ufa” and could not win the third meeting in a row. During this period, the wards of Valery Karpin have never been scored from the game, this time also limiting themselves to a goal from the standard. After filing the corner, Dennis Hadzikadunić turned out to be the most quick. But in the middle of the second half, the guests answered twice, thanks to which they pulled out a victory and became favorites in the fight for sixth place. In the period from the 68th to the 75th minute, Daniil Fomin and Vladislav Krotov lit their names on the scoreboard. Moreover, the first of them just performed 11-meter.

It is worth noting that in the current championship, “Rostov” is the leader of the RPL in terms of the number of penalties for their own goal. In total, the judges pointed 12 times to the point in the yellow-blue box, but only 9 times this resulted in a goal.

“Rostov” in the third match in a row lost to “Ufa”. The last time Karpin's wards beat their rivals in December 2017. Then everything was decided by the exact hit of Sverrira Ingason.

The return of Pogrebnyak and the second defeat of Dynamo in a row

In the face-to-face dispute of applicants for the sixth line, the Urals unexpectedly got the better of Dynamo and interrupted the unsuccessful series in the confrontation with the blue and white. In the last two matches, Yekaterinburg invariably lost to blue and white and could not upset them even once. But this time only the hosts scored. First, the productive series was extended by Ottman El-Kabir, then Roman Emelyanov marked himself with an own goal, and Pavel Pogrebnyak put the point in the compensated time. The forward, who had been ill with the coronavirus, first entered the field after a pause and after 13 minutes finished the ball into the net. In addition, he became the third ex-player of Dynamo to hit their goal in the last three rounds. Previously, Alexander Kokorin from Sochi and Yevgeny Lutsenko from Arsenal succeeded.

For wards of Dmitry Parfyonov this success was already the third after the resumption of the championship, while the team of Kirill Novikov has never won. It is worth noting that Dynamo's anti-record this season is six matches in a row without victories. It was during this segment that Dmitry Khokhlov resigned.

The fiasco of Krasnodar and the Makarov series

Wards Murad Musaev continue to experience serious problems during the final segment of the tournament. After a discouraging defeat from the newly made champions, they lost to Rubin.

Denis Makarov became the author of the winning goal in the second meeting in a row. And in this he was helped by a rebound from the foot of the former defender of Kazan Yevgeny Sorokin, who in winter switched to the camp of the southerners.

As the head coach of the guests, Murad Musayev, admitted, the performance of his team was affected by the absence of Sergey Petrov and Markus Berg, who missed the match due to the exhaustion of yellow cards. Moreover, due to the disqualification of the Swedes, the “bulls” were forced to play without a clean forward, which became one of the factors of failure. Thus, “Krasnodar” suffered from “Rubin” only the second defeat in the last 14 full-time meetings and rolled back to fourth place in the table, skipping ahead of CSKA.