Khimki's fourth win in five games

Khimki, headed by Igor Cherevchenko, continues to delight their fans and climb up the standings of the national championship.

Before the arrival of the new coach, the team scored only three points in eight rounds, and under his leadership in the next ten - 19. Moreover, in the last five meetings the Moscow Region team won four wins and drew with CSKA.

Arsenal became the next victim of the Premier League rookie, which, on the contrary, extended their unbeaten run in the national championship to seven games.

The only goal in the 12th minute was scored by Ilya Kukharchuk.

After a pass from the right flank and the discount of Alexander Troshechkin, the midfielder sent a shell under the crossbar to the rally.

The 30-year-old football player managed to score a goal in the third RPL match in a row.

There were no more goals that evening, but the referee Ivan Sidenkov, who played the first match in the Premier League in his career, came to the fore.

The young referee, with the help of his colleagues at VAR, canceled the goal of Mohamed Konate because of a small offside position and in a couple of controversial episodes did not indicate a “point” in the Khimki penalty area, which caused indignation among the Tula.

“There was a vivid example at the end of the first half: the ball gets into the hand of a Khimki player in the penalty area, the hand is in an unnatural position, raised up, not pressed to the body.

According to all current interpretations, this is a pure penalty.

More than once or twice we have seen how penalty kicks were assigned in similar situations.

Today VAR watches the moment, but does not register violations.

Who will explain why this is not a penalty? "

- quotes the words of the head of the club Guram Adzhoev "Championship".

Kazartsev's amazing solution

An even louder referee scandal ended the confrontation between Rotor and Ufa.

Volgograd managed to win with a minimum score, which was their first at their home stadium in the current RPL season.

However, after the match, everyone discussed not the result, but the actions of referee Vasily Kazartsev in the middle of the second half.

In the 67th minute, after Timur Zhamaletdinov's kick, the ball landed in Beke Mikeltadze's hand, but the referee did not award a penalty even after watching the replay.

Moreover, Kazartsev soon showed two yellow cards in two minutes to Ufa defender Grigory Morozov.

In the majority, Rotor still hit the opponent.

After the filing of Sergey Makarov from the right flank, Kamil Mullin scored the third goal in the current RPL season.

At the end of the meeting, the guests announced their intention to file a complaint with the RFU Expert and Judicial Commission.

“Kazartsev decided that Rotor could have two goalkeepers.

I think the judicial authorities should consider this situation ", - quotes the" Championship "of the chairman of the board of directors of" Ufa "Rostislav Murzagulov.

Moreover, the RFU promptly reacted to Kazartsev's work.

The head of the judiciary committee of the union, Ashot Khachaturyants, lamented that "mistakes on the part of the judge continue" and promised to draw conclusions.

Recall that it was the referee from St. Petersburg who appointed two controversial penalties against Spartak in the first round match against Sochi, for which he was temporarily suspended from work in the Premier League.

Defeat of "Spartak" in Sochi

And "Spartak" on the eve of the meeting with "Zenith" suffered an unexpected defeat from "Sochi" with a minimum score.

The red and white had an extremely unsuccessful match and struck only one shot on target of the opponent's goal.

True, at the end of the first half, Jordan Larsson managed to excel, but referee Igor Panin, after watching the replay, determined that the striker played along with his hand.

However, this episode was far from the first controversial in Sochi's penalty area.

So, at once in two moments on the verge of a foul acted the defender of the owners Ibrahim Tsallagov.

First, the ball hit him in the side after Larsson hit from a lethal distance.

And then the footballer blocked the path to the gate of Samuel Gigot.

The Frenchman crashed into an opponent and fell, but Panin did not assign a penalty, considering that the midfielder did not break the rules.

And just a few minutes later, Sochi opened an account.

Christian Noboa, after a discount from substitute Anton Zabolotny, from outside the penalty area, precisely twirled the ball into the far corner.

For the Ecuadorian, this goal was already the eighth in the current RPL season, and for the southerners, the victory over the red and white for the second in a row at home.

In mid-July, the red and white also lost in Sochi with a minimum score.

Dziuba's double against Dynamo

Zenit took advantage of Spartak's misfire and single-handedly topped the standings.

The Petersburgers defeated Dynamo at home, taking revenge from the opponent for the defeat in the first round.

The fate of the confrontation was largely predetermined by Artem Dziuba's double in the first half.

First, he distinguished himself from the game after the transfer of Alexei Sutormin, and then converted a penalty for a foul by Sergey Parshivlyuk on Douglas dos Santos.  

After this match, the Russian national team striker had ten goals in the RPL, thanks to which he briefly overtook Serdar Azmun in the scorer race.

He also climbed to fourth place in the list of top scorers in club history (85 goals).

After the break, the penalty kick was already earned by Dynamo, and it was confidently implemented by the substitute Nikolay Komlichenko.

However, all questions about the winner of the meeting in the 84th minute were removed by another player who appeared on the field during the game - Serdar Azmun.

On his account there were also ten goals in the current season of the Russian Championship, and he takes first place in the scorers' race.

In turn, Sergei Semak entered the top five coaches in Zenit history in terms of the number of victories.

In the match against Dynamo, he took over for the 69th time.

Moreover, he managed to get ahead of Dick Advocaat himself in this list, under whose leadership the Petersburgers became champions of Russia for the first time, and also won the UEFA Cup and Super Cup.   

Lokomotiv's biggest defeat in the RPL

In another match of the round, the Champions League participants “Krasnodar” and “Lokomotiv” met.

By the 11th minute, the capital team conceded twice.

First, Viktor Klasson took advantage of the gross mistake of Grzegorz Krychowiak in his own penalty area, and then Remi Cabella hit the opponent's goal from close range.

The guests had a chance to rectify the situation at the end of the first half, when referee Vladimir Moskalev appointed a penalty for a foul on Eder.

However, Anton Miranchuk shot right in the center of the goal and failed to deceive Evgeny Gorodov.

So the experienced goalkeeper, who celebrated his 35th birthday on the day of the game, managed to reflect the 18th penalty in his career.

And in the last minutes of the match, Lokomotiv crumbled.

Krasnodar striker Markus Berg managed to issue a double.

Now the Swede has 20 goals for the southerners, and he entered the top ten scorers of the club in history.

The substitute Magomed-Shapi Suleimanov also managed to excel this evening.

Thus, Musaev's wards won the second match in a row in the RPL with a score of 5: 0.

Last week they left no chance for Rotor.

Lokomotiv not only conceded five goals for the second time this season (in early November, the railroad workers lost to Dynamo - 1: 5), but also suffered the biggest defeat in history in the national championship.    

Canceled penalty kick against Rubin

Experiencing serious financial difficulties, "Tambov" suffered the sixth defeat in a row in the RPL.

As in the game of the last round against Spartak, the team in the match against Rubin could not count on a number of leading players who are demanding that the club pay off its debts.

Their places on the field were again taken by young footballers: Zurab Gigashvili, Lawrence Anvon Nicholas and Dmitry Merenchukov.  

Nevertheless, the nominal owners on the frozen lawn of the Mordovia Arena looked decent and conceded only once.

In the 20th minute, Kazan defender Ilya Samoshnikov shot into the far corner after a pass from Darko Yevtich from the depths.

At the same time, on the replay, the impression was that the player was offside.

Judge Kirill Levnikov made another decision not in favor of Tambov in the 69th minute.

Initially, he assigned a penalty kick for pushing Vladimir Kabakhidze, but after watching the replay he canceled the penalty kick, believing that the player of the attacking team crashed into an opponent himself.   

Lost victory for CSKA

CSKA also shows not the best results in the last rounds.

Until recently, the army team alone was in the lead in the standings, but a four-league losing streak in the RPL threw them to third place.

The capital team made another misfire in the home game against Ural - 2: 2.

The hosts successfully started the match and opened the scoring already in the 12th minute.

The gates of Ilya Pomazun rented from CSKA were struck by Ilya Shkurin.

The Belarusian distinguished himself in the second round of the championship in a row. 

However, in the middle of the first half, Ural managed to recoup thanks to Branko Jovicic's cool delivery into the penalty area and a neat shot by Andrey Yegorychev.

But immediately after the break, the guests were let down by Pavel Pogrebnyak.

An experienced football player first received a yellow card for hitting Herdur Magnusson's face with his palm, and then swung the ball at Alexei Sukhoi, who turned away from him.

The referee, having received a signal from the assistants, presented the attacker with a second yellow card and sent him off the field.

And after an hour of the meeting, Sukhoi, having watched the replay, assigned a penalty to the gate of Yekaterinburg for playing with a hand at Alexei Gerasimov.

The penalty kick was confidently realized by Nikola Vlašić, who now has eight goals in the current RPL season.  

However, instead of putting the squeeze on the opponent playing in the minority, CSKA for some reason began to play on hold and paid for it.

At the 89th minute, Igor Kalinin, after filing from the right flank with his head, struck an accurate blow to the far corner of the goal of Igor Akinfeev.

In addition to all the troubles, already in the time added by the referee, Shkurin received a direct red card for playing with a straight leg.   

Curious goal of "Rostov" in Grozny

Nor does Akhmat know any victories over four matches.

Last week Grozny lost to Sochi, and in the 18th round they lost at home to another team from the South of Russia, Rostov - 0: 1.

Moreover, the team from the Chechen Republic suffered a third defeat in the last four meetings with the yellow-blue.

The logical result of the reporting game would be a goalless draw, but in the 82nd minute Valery Karpin's wards managed to come out ahead thanks to the slightly curious goal of Roman Tugarev.

The midfielder made a pass from a free kick to the near post at an acute angle, but Khaitam Aleesami, who responded to the pass, bent down at the last moment and the ball unexpectedly flew into the far corner for everyone.

For the 22-year-old footballer, this goal was not only his debut in the RPL, but also the first in the composition of Rostov.

Another hero of the match can be called the guest goalkeeper Sergei Pesyakov, who made four important saves and did not allow the opponent to excel.