The second victory of "Tambov" and the risk of a boycott

The seventh round of the current RPL season opened with an outsider match between Tambov and Ufa.

And even a few days before the game, there was a possibility of a boycott of the meeting from the side of Sergei Pervushin's wards due to debts to the players.

However, in the end, the Tambov team entered the field and turned out to be stronger than the opponent.

Both teams created a minimum of chances, but the hosts hit the gates of Alexander Belenov twice.

At the end of the first half, Aleksey Gritsaenko was the quickest of all in someone else's penalty area to serve a free kick, and after the break, substitute Mikhail Kostyukov outplayed the goalkeeper in close combat.

It is interesting that the striker scored against Ufa in the fourth match in a row.

Tambov won the most important victory, which was only the second for the team of the season.

And the sports director of the club, Pavel Khudyakov, promised that the debts to the players would be paid off in two or three weeks.

Double Bikfalvi and successful debut of Strandberg

Ural also won the second victory of the season.

Yekaterinburg at home beat Khimki (3: 1) and took revenge from the Moscow Region team for the July defeat in the Russian Cup semifinals, which cost Dmitry Parfyonov the job.

The main heroes of the confrontation were the legionnaires of the hosts Eric Bikfalvi and Othman El-Kabir.

The Romanian striker has scored a double and now, with 31 goals, shares the sixth place in the list of top scorers in the club's history with Vladimir Shishelov.

And the Moroccan midfielder gave two assists.

Another goal was scored by Ural's newcomer Stefan Strandberg, who joined the team in early September.

Arshak Koryan scored the only goal for Khimki.

For him, this goal was his debut in the RPL.

The outbreak of coronavirus in Rotor and Khatskevich's discontent

Volgograd “Rotor” failed to play its match with “Krasnodar”.

The day before the game, the club announced the discovery of coronavirus in seven team players. 

However, until the last moment it was not known whether the meeting would take place.

Only an hour before the starting whistle, the RPL press service announced its cancellation.

It is interesting that the head coach of Volgograd residents Alexander Khatskevich was not satisfied with this fact.

“The football players who passed the tests two days ago were isolated.

On Sunday morning we repeated the test, and 16 people who were preparing for the game tested negative.

The rotor is ready to play.

Maybe Krasnodar is not ready? "

- quotes a specialist from Match TV. 

Thus, this match became the first in the current RPL season, which was postponed due to COVID-19.

The fifth goal of 35-year-old Noboa and six saves of Dzhanaev

Meanwhile, Sochi, which made its debut in the RPL only last season, continues to amaze the fans.

On Saturday, the southerners beat Akhmat with a minimum score on the road, having won their fourth victory in the last five matches, and temporarily climbed to first place in the standings.

Moreover, Sochi is the only team that has not yet been defeated in the current season.

Three points were again brought to the guests by Christian Noboa.

The 35-year-old Ecuadorian has scored the fifth goal in the current Premier League season and became the leader of the tournament's scorer race.

This shot on target was the only one for Sochi in the entire game.

But the goal of Soslan Dzhanaev was threatened much more often, but the goalkeeper of the Russian national team made six saves and played a zero for the third RPL match in a row.

The return of Medvedev and the injury of Kvaratskhelia

Only one goal was scored in the confrontation between Dynamo and Rubin, but this game turned out to be much more eventful.

Muscovites hit someone else's goal already in the 14th minute, but Nikolai Komlichenko's goal was canceled due to offside.

Kazan scored the only goal in the middle of the first half.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia earned a penalty, and Djordje Despotovich converted it.

A few minutes later, the Georgian midfielder left the field due to a nose injury.

He was damaged by Sergey Parshivlyuk.

For this violation of the rules, the defender received only a yellow card.

But after the break, Komlichenko earned two optional yellow cards within four minutes.

And at the end of the meeting, referee Sergei Lapochkin removed two more players - the Korean midfielder "Rubin" Hwang In Byom and Parshivlyuk.

Thus, Leonid Slutsky's wards won their third victory in the last four RPL matches and climbed to the top of the standings.

Goalkeeper Nikita Medvedev should also be noted in the Kazan team.

The owner of a record "dry" series in the Russian championships played his first match in the Premier League in more than three years and kept his goal intact.

Maksimenko's mistake and Akinfeev's rescue

CSKA and Spartak met in the central match of the round.

Many considered the favorite of the derby red and white, who approached the game as the leader of the RPL.

However, the victory in the metropolitan confrontation for the second time in a row over the past few months remained with the army team - 3: 1.

Even the quick goal of Ezequiel Ponce, who replaced Alexander Sobolev in the starting lineup, did not prevent them from winning.

Viktor Goncharenko's wards managed to score twice before the break.

First, Herdur Magnusson leveled the score thanks to a mistake by Alexander Maksimenko, and then Nikola Vlasic took CSKA ahead.

Horvat scored four goals and gave two assists in the current RPL season.

He collects points for performance in each of the matches played and, according to their number, is the best footballer of the tournament along with Noboa.

Vlašić hit the Spartak goal for the fourth time in his career.

The point in the confrontation was put by the newcomer of the army Chidera Ejuke.

The Nigerian forward scored his debut goal for the team in the second game in a red and blue jersey.

Also in CSKA it is worth noting Igor Akinfeev, who made several spectacular saves.

For Spartak fans, a remarkable moment was the replacement of Alexander Kokorin.

The striker made his debut in the red and white lineup in the 56th minute, but scored only one inaccurate shot.

Mostovoy's debut goal and the referee's appeal to VAR

Zenit regained the lead by the end of the round, beating Arsenal (3: 1) at home in class, despite the absence of the main central defender Yaroslav Rakitskiy.

Already in the first half, the Petersburgers managed to hit the opponent's goal twice.

First, the debut goal for the club was scored by Andrey Mostovoy, and then Artyom Dzyuba scored the second goal in the current RPL season.

The captain of the Russian national team managed to excel in the national championship match for the first time since August 11.

Immediately after the break, Mostovoy managed to score a double, but referee Pavel Kukuyan canceled the goal due to an offside position.

But Arsenal, half an hour before the end of the match, managed to reduce the backlog to a minimum thanks to a precise shot by Yuri Kovalev.

Finally, all questions about the winner were removed by the accurate shot of the substitute Alexander Erokhin.

However, at first, due to the offside position of Yuri Zhirkov, Kukuyan did not count this goal either, but after watching the replay he nevertheless decided in favor of Zenit.

One shot by Lokomotiv on target and a controversial episode from the penalty spot

But Lokomotiv continues to experience serious problems.

After a goalless draw with Zenit, the railroad finished the away match with Rostov with a similar score.

Thus, the team extended the losing streak in the RPL to five meetings and dropped to ninth place, seven points behind the leader.

At the same time, in 90 minutes, Marko Nikolic's wards scored with only one shot on the opponent's goal, which Dmitry Rybchinsky inflicted at the beginning of the fight.

The Rostov footballers created a lot more dangerous chances, but they lacked a little luck to snatch the victory.

For example, in the middle of the first half, referee Vladislav Bezborodov did not award a penalty for falling into someone else's penalty area of ​​Alexei Ionov.