Kokorin's first goal for Spartak, a major victory for Rostov and a refereeing scandal in Krasnodar: what will be remembered for the 11th round of the RPL

Zenit's third victory over Sochi

Zenit, sharing the first place in the RPL standings with Spartak, confidently beat Sochi on Saturday - 3: 1.

Moreover, the Petersburgers began the meeting without Artyom Dziuba, who appeared on the field only after the break. 

The absence of the captain did not prevent Sergey Semak's wards from scoring twice in the first half.

Vyacheslav Karavaev and Alexander Erokhin scored another goal in the team.

After the break, the “southerners” managed to reduce the backlog to a minimum, but in the time added by the referee, Douglas dos Santos put an end to the meeting.

In addition to Dziuba, Zenit was replaced by Brazilian newcomer Wendel.

According to Semak, the footballer "looked good."

And Zenit won a third victory over Sochi in three RPL matches and forced the opponent's coach Oleg Fomenko to answer the question about

"Giveaway game".

Debut of Chernov and Ionov for Krasnodar

The confrontation between Krasnodar and Rubin ended with a similar score.

The southerners with two debutants in the squad - Evgeny Chernov and Alexey Ionov confidently outplayed the rival.

At the very end of the first half, Remy Cabella opened the score from the penalty spot.

And right after the break, Christopher Olsson took advantage of the blunder of Silvie Begic.

Judge Mikhail Vilkov watched both episodes on the monitor on the advice of VAR.

Finally, in the end, Marcus Berg scored, for whom this ball became the fifth in the current RPL season.

In Rubin, however, they were extremely dissatisfied with the work of Vilkov.

According to the club, the judge violated the rules of using the video assistance system for referees.

Kazan insists on replaying the meeting.

However, the RFU has already stated that they see no reason for this.

Effective substitution of Ze Luis

Meanwhile, Lokomotiv extended the winning streak in the RPL to four matches.

On Saturday, the railroad workers beat the outsider Ufa with a minimum score at home, which held the first meeting under the leadership of the new head coach Rashid Rakhimov.

Three points for red-green were brought by the successful replacement of Marko Nikolic.

In the middle of the second half, he threw the newcomer Ze Luis into the battle, and after just a couple of minutes he made Alexander Belenov grossly mistaken and gave an assist to Grzegorz Krychowiak.

"I feel good.

I am here to help Lokomotiv.

It's great that I was able to enter the field and help the team.

It is important that we won.

This is the main thing.

Of course, in that dangerous episode I wanted to turn around and shoot on goal, but when I saw my teammate, I gave him a pass.

The most important thing was to win, ”said Ze Luis after the match.

Penalty, goal and pass to Ponce  

An extremely difficult victory over another outsider Khimki was won by another team from the capital

"Spartacus".

As part of the Moscow Region team, this match was special for two players at once.

Firstly, Denis Glushakov with the captain's armband in 2017 helped the red and white to win the championship.

Secondly, Reziuan Mirzov recently moved to Khimki on loan from Spartak. 

And it was he who opened the scoring at the very beginning of the second half.

However, ten minutes later, Domenico Tedesco's wards managed to recoup.

Referee Kirill Levnikov, after watching the replay, appointed a penalty for Arseny Logashov's foul on Esequiel Ponce, and Alexander Kokorin converted it and opened the scoring with goals as part of the new team.

In turn, the Argentine soon brought Spartak forward after a corner.

Finally, Jordan Larsson removed all questions about the outcome of the meeting after Ilya Lantratov pulled the ball from the goalkeeper's line after hitting Ponce with his head.

Both forwards have scored fifth goals in the current RPL season.

Red-and-white newcomer Victor Moses, who came on as a substitute in the middle of the second half, almost scored.

The hosts had all chances to escape, but Alexander Maksimenko acted perfectly that evening, for the third time this season he was awarded the title of the best player of the meeting.

It was he who saved the red and whites in the end, stopping the one-on-one exit of Brian Idov, who had already scored one goal earlier.

CSKA's first victory over Dynamo since 2016

And in the main match of the tour CSKA beat Dynamo - 3: 1.

CSKA defeated the blue and white for the first time since April 2016. 

Konstantin Kuchaev opened the scoring at the very beginning of the second half of the meeting, for whom this goal was the fifth in the current RPL season.

The rookie Chidera Ejuke scored the debut goal in the red-blue lineup.

Igor Diveev also managed to hit the other's gates.

Croatian Nicola Moro scored a goal for Dynamo.

And 15 minutes before the final whistle, the guests were in the minority - defender Roman Evgeniev received the second yellow card for a rough tackle. 

Arsenal's success on the birthday of the club president

And in Tula in a face-to-face match the teams from the bottom of the standings - "Arsenal" and "Ural", met.

And the victory on the birthday of the head of the club Guram Adjoev was won by the Gunners.

The only goal in the 36th minute was scored by Alexander Lomovitskiy, who only recently returned to Arsenal on loan from Spartak.

For him, this goal was the third in the current RPL draw. 

Ural also managed to excel.

At the very beginning of the meeting, another goal was struck by Eric Bikfalvi, but the refereeing team after watching the replay canceled the ball due to a small offside position.

The guests failed to break through Yegor Shamov that evening.

Ryzhikov's key save

But the newcomer RPL "Rotor", closing the standings, suffered another defeat, the eighth in a row.

And this time Volgograd lost at home to Tambov, which is experiencing serious financial difficulties - 0: 2.

And in terms of the game, the wards of Alexander Khatskevich looked good and could have scored more than once.

For example, in the first half, the hosts hit the post twice.

The apotheosis of the team's bad luck was Zuriko Davitashvili's unrealized penalty.

The penalty spot was parried by Sergei Ryzhikov.

The most experienced goalkeeper as a whole had a wonderful match and helped his partners out several times.

And in the second half, the guests scored twice.

First, Alexander Karapetyan sent the ball to the goal, taking advantage of the opponent's mistake, and then Herman Ogunha hit the other's goal. 

Two goals from Rostov in stoppage time

Finally, the fifth-placed Rostov in the last match of the tour defeated Akhmat at home - 3: 0.

Even the departure of a number of leaders did not prevent Valery Karpin's wards from winning.

Opened the newcomer yellow-blue Kento Hashimoto.

The Japanese chalked up the fifth goal in the RPL.

An unrealized penalty took place in this meeting as well.

At the end of the first half, Georgy Melkadze failed to beat Sergei Pesyakov from a point.

In the time added by the referee, “Rostov” completed the defeat of the opponent with precise strikes by Roman Eremenko and Danil Glebov.

“Akhmat” by this moment, in addition, remained in the minority.

Anton Shvets received the second yellow card for Grozny.