Rubin in the minority and without Slutsky lost to Lokomotiv in the first round of the RPL

The meeting, which took place in Kazan, ended with a score of 2: 0 in favor of the guests.

The victory for Lokomotiv was brought by the goals of Alexey Miranchuk and Dmitry Barinov, who scored in the 2nd and 26th minutes from the passes of Dmitry Rybchinsky.

During the break, Rubin's head coach Leonid Slutskiy was removed from the field, and defender Silvie Begic received a red card in the 65th minute.

In the second round, Rubin will host Ural in their field, and Lokomotiv in Moscow will play with Krasnodar.

Earlier it was reported that Zenit defeated Rotor in the first round of the RPL.