Two mistakes by Normann and goals from Zabolotny and Joaozinho: how Akhmat and Sochi knocked Krasnodar and Rostov out of the Russian Cup

Two goals for CSKA in the army derby

The CSKA - SKA-Khabarovsk army derby took place in the first meeting of the match day of the Russian Cup.

At the same time, the team from the Far East, along with Wings of the Soviets, became the only representatives of the FNL in the 1/8 finals.

Sergei Juran, shortly before the confrontation, expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the meeting took place in Moscow.

“In Russia, the participants in European competitions were given great preferences.

They also play the 1/8 finals on their own fields, which completely minimizes the chances of the teams of the first division.

Although earlier, as far as I remember, in the early stages a lower-status club played at home.

Nowadays the “warm bath” was organized for the grandees not according to the sports principle, ”- quotes the Sportbox.ru specialist.

Additional intrigue to the match was given by the presence of several players from CSKA among the guests at once: Maksim Martusevich, Svyatoslav Georgievsky and striker Konstantin Bazelyuk, who had once shown great promise.

However, the ball rarely reached the striker.

SKA-Khabarovsk relied on defense and coped with its task for most of the first half.

The three central defenders of the team did not allow Ilya Shkurin to do anything in the attack.

However, in the 39th minute, the hosts opened an account.

Ilzat Akhmetov was the first on the rebound and sent the ball into the far corner from outside the penalty area.

At the beginning of the second half of the meeting, the chances of the Khabarovsk team for success became even less after Vladislav Bragin played roughly with a straight leg against Mario Fernandez.

The point in the match was soon put by Nikola Vlašić, who beautifully twirled the projectile into the far corner.

In the future, CSKA could well bring the score to a large one, but the team lacked a little luck.

Among other things, the newcomer of the army team, Solomon Rondon, who replaced Shkurin in the 54th minute, failed to distinguish himself.

But the other rookie of the red and blue Emil Bohinen remained on the bench.

22 shots of Lokomotiv on goal of Tambov

But the holding of the meeting between Lokomotiv and Tambov until recently was under a big question.

Even in the middle of the week, information appeared that the Tambov team could withdraw from the Russian championship.

On Thursday, the head coach of the team, Sergei Pervushin, bluntly stated that his players would not take part in the Cup of the country, and the railroad workers removed the match from the calendar on their official website.

But over the past few days, the situation has changed for the better.

The guests succeeded in obtaining the withdrawal of several statements from the RFU Dispute Resolution Chamber from former football players.

In parallel, Tambov was actively renting players.

So, Roman Minaev, Tigran Avanesyan and Vladimir Karapuzov were announced on the day of the match with Loko, and Nikita Drozdov, Said Aliyev and Farhod Vasiev - the day before.

But they all ended up in the starting lineup.

In this situation, any outcome other than a major defeat for the guests would have become a real sensation.

Throughout the game, they struck only three shots on the other's goal, none of which were on target.

In turn, the railroad workers regularly forced 40-year-old Sergei Ryzhikov into the game.

In total, the owners have 22 shots.

For the time being, the veteran saved his team, but in the 27th minute after the corner was served, he was powerless too.

The newcomer of Muscovites Pablo, taking advantage of his partner's excellent cross, hit his head and scored a goal in his debut match for Loko.

And in the second half of the meeting, the first goal in the railroad was scored by another former footballer of French Bordeaux, François Camano, who moved to Russia last summer.

Grzegorz Krychowiak made a big score by scoring the penalty kick earned by the substitute Eder.

Sochi's first ever advance to the Russian Cup quarterfinals

Another participant in European competition from Russia, Krasnodar, hosted Sochi and intended to revenge before the fans for the defeat against Dynamo Zagreb in the first match of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League.

It is curious that after this meeting, Murad Musaev did not dare to seriously rotate and changed only four people in the starting lineup of the team (Cayo Pantaleana, Tonny de Villeneu, Remi Cabella and Magomed Shapi Suleimanov).

The first half was held in double-edged attacks.

Opponents regularly threatened each other's goal, but above all praise, Evgeny Gorodov and Soslan Dzhanaev acted on the last line.

But in the second half of the meeting, the hosts' chronic problem reappeared - weak defensive play.

On the 52nd minute, Alexander Martynovich and Yegor Sorokin calmly allowed Anton Zabolotny to deliver an accurate shot from outside the penalty area.

Gorodov also played not in the best way again, making two productive mistakes in the confrontation with Dynamo.

This time he froze in the near corner and could not save his team.

And for the striker of the Russian national team, this goal was the fifth in the current season.

Next, the team was upset by its longtime leader Joaozinho.

And again, forgotten on the edge of the penalty area, Artur Yusupov, no one prevented him from hitting the post from a couple of meters, and the naturalized Brazilian was the first to finish.

True, in the end Krasnodar managed to score the prestige ball.

De Villena, who came on as a substitute, delivered a beautiful blow from outside the penalty area, but Musaev's wards did not have enough time to save themselves.

Sochi, for the first time in history, reached the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup and scored a second victory over an opponent in the Southern Derby in the last three matches.

43 minutes of Rostov in the majority

Another unexpected result was recorded in Rostov-on-Don, where “Rostov” lost with a minimum score to the middle peasant of the RPL “Akhmat”.

Moreover, the hosts had a tangible advantage for most of the meeting, but they could not hit the gate of Georgy Shelia.

In the opening, they completely forced the opponent to close in his own penalty area.

The newcomer of the yellow-blue Ali Sow, who actively clung to the ball, was quite noticeable.

But instead of scoring, Valery Karpin's charges conceded in the 19th minute.

Matthias Normann played carelessly in his own penalty area and broke the rules on Artem Timofeev.

Bernard Berisha confidently realized the penalty kick.

To top it all off, Rostov lost injured Roman Eremenko in the first half.

But immediately after the break, Akhmat remained in the minority.

Maxim Nenakhov received an optional second yellow card and was forced to leave the field.

Andrei Talalaev immediately changed the scheme of his team, releasing two defenders Marat Bystrov and Wilker Angel on the field.

And even ten of the guests defended themselves quite calmly.

The opponent often strayed into banal canopies in the direction of Sow and Vladimir Obukhov.

But in the end, the team got a chance to recoup.

Zoran Nizich shot down Obukhov at the corner of the penalty area, and Igor Panin, after watching the replay, appointed a second penalty for the match.

However, this was clearly not Norman's day.

The Norwegian came up to the penalty spot and failed to beat Shelia.

Thus, "Rostov" became the third participant in the European competition after "Zenith" and "Krasnodar", which was eliminated in the first stage of the playoffs of the tournament.