Goal exchange in Yekaterinburg
After an unexpected departure from the Russian Cup, Akhmat could not beat Ural - 1: 1.
Even the goal of 21-year-old Lecha Sadulaev in the 11th minute did not help the team to score three points.
For the first time this season, the young midfielder was included in the starting lineup for an RPL match and immediately marked his debut ball in the Premier League.
Yekaterinburg managed to recoup after the break thanks to the accurate long-range strike of Rafal Avgustinyak.
He helped the Pole to become the leader of the current national championship in terms of the number of goals from outside the penalty area - four.
It is curious that only one shot of the hosts out of 21 turned out to be effective. At the same time, they only hit the shots on target five times.
29 shots of Zenit in St. Petersburg
Zenit struck 29 shots on the Rotor's goal, 17 of which were on target.
However, the Volgogradians at the Gazprom Arena successfully defended for almost a whole half.
In many ways, they succeeded thanks to the actions of goalkeeper Josip Chondrich, who made ten saves.
But in the second added minute, when Solomon Kverkvelia cut the ball into his own goal, he was powerless too.
It is curious that the Georgian scored the fifth own goal in the RPL.
Since 2008, more often than not, no one has hit their gates within the framework of the tournament.
And in the second half of the meeting, the Petersburgers did not leave the opponent a chance, having distinguished themselves five times.
Malcolm scored the first goal since August last year, Andrey Mostovoy was the fourth after the season resumed, and Artyom Dzyuba was 14th in the current championship draw.
Finally, Aleksndr Erokhin, who appeared on the field only in the 76th minute, managed both to upset Chondrich on his own and to assist Aleksey Sutormin.
Zenit has confidently made another step towards the third consecutive championship.
The victory in the next round over Lokomotiv will provide the team with gold.
Rotor suffered the biggest defeat in history in the national championship.
Krykhovyak's double in Saransk
In turn, on the eve of a key confrontation in St. Petersburg, the railroad defeated another outsider, “Tambov”, with a score of 5: 2, and won the 11th consecutive victory in all tournaments.
Thus, Marko Nikolic managed to repeat the winning streak in Yuri Semin's Loko in 1995, when Muscovites won silver in the Russian championship for the first time in history.
In Saransk, the nominal owners kept their gates intact almost until the break, until Vitaly Sychev was outplayed by Grzegorz Krykhovyak.
But, unlike Rotor, they did not get unstuck, but immediately responded to the opponent with a goal from Azer Aliyev.
In the second half of the meeting, the favorite still hit the opponent.
Fedor Smolov scored the sixth goal after the season resumed.
Krykhovyak scored a double with a beautiful shot into the far corner and with 11 successful shots strengthened the leadership of the team scorers race.
In the end, even two defenders managed to distinguish themselves - Murilo and Maciej Rybus.
And Anton Kochenkov deflected a penalty kick by Yuri Bavin.
True, Denis Kaikov immediately sent a shell into the net after a corner kick.
But this did not save Tambov from the eighth defeat in a row in the RPL.
Judge scandal in Moscow
But the Dynamo fighting for medals at home unexpectedly lost to Khimki with a minimum score and are now four points behind the third place.
At the same time, Sandro Schwartz's wards had an overwhelming advantage and delivered two dozen shots to the opponent's goal, eight of which were on target.
But beyond praise, Ilya Lantratov acted on the last frontier.
When he was unable to help out the guests, luck came to their aid: in the first half, Arsen Zakharyan hit the post, and in the second, Konstantin Tyukavin hit the crossbar.
In addition, in the 79th minute the judge Evgeny Kukulyak made an extremely ambiguous decision in favor of Khimki.
It seemed that Oleksandr Filin grabbed Nikolay Komlichenko with his hands in the penalty area during a corner, not allowing him to strike, but the referee did not assign a penalty.
Dynamo were dissatisfied with this decision.
According to media reports, the club intends to apply to the RFU expert and judicial commission.
And fortune smiled to the Moscow Region team again already in stoppage time, when the substitute Maxim Glushenkov sent the ball into the net of Anton Shunin's goal.
Realized penalty in the 91st minute in Ufa
If on the first game day of the round the teams scored a total of 16 goals, then on the second - exactly half as many. And then most of it was taken by Ufa and Sochi, who played a real thriller match. It is enough that by the 15th minute the southerners sent two unanswered goals into the goal of Alexei Chernov, who was replacing the injured Alexander Belenov. First, Danila Prokhin scored his debut goal in the RPL. At 19 years and 336 days, he became the youngest Premier League goal scorer in club history. Then Anton Zabolotny scored the eighth goal in the current RPL season.
However, the owners did not let go of their hands and quickly reduced the backlog to a minimum thanks to the accurate blow of Vyacheslav Krotov.
And at the end of the first half, "Sochi" also remained in the minority after the removal of Ibragim Tsallagov.
And in the second half, the Bashkortostanians still managed to restore the status quo on the scoreboard.
Timur Zhamaletdinov scored five minutes after coming on as a substitute.
But the ending remained with the wards of Vladimir Fedotov.
On the 89th minute, Bojan Jokic blocked the ball's path into his own goal with his hand, and the referee Igor Panin awarded a penalty.
The penalty kick was confidently realized by Christian Noboa, who had previously given an assist.
Now the Ecuadorian has ten goals and seven successful passes in the current RPL season.
Rescue of Pesyakov in Rostov-on-Don
Not without deletions and penalties in the match between Rostov and Arsenal.
Only in Rostov-on-Don Vladislav Bezborodov showed one red card and appointed two penalty kicks.
The young Swede Pontus Almqvist played extremely useful.
First, in the second half, he forced a foul on himself at the cost of sending Taras Burlak off, and then got kicked in someone else's penalty area.
Dmitry Poloz calmly outplayed Yegor Shamov from the "point".
And shortly before the final whistle, Bezborodov appointed a penalty kick at the hosts' goal, but Sergei Pesyakov parried Robert Bauer's kick and parried the third penalty kick in the current RPL draw.
This is the best result of the tournament.
Success of "Spartak" in the Moscow derby
In the main match of the tour at home, Spartak beat CSKA with a minimum score in the Moscow derby and continued chasing Lokomotiv in the standings.
The red and white had an advantage for most of the meeting and deservedly scored three points.
CSKA lost three matches in a row in all tournaments and did not strike a single shot on target.
This allowed Domenico Tedesco's wards to interrupt an unpleasant streak of ten games in a row in the national championship with conceded goals.
Igor Akinfeev this evening also did everything to leave his possessions intact, but at the beginning of the second half he missed from Jordan Larsson.
The Swede scored the 13th goal in the current RPL season and took third place in the championship scorers' race.
Only Zenit strikers Serdar Azmun (16) and Artem Dziuba (14) are ahead of him.
At the same time, the army team was forced to act in the minority more than half after the controversial removal of Ilzat Akhmetov.
Goncharenko's first victory in Krasnodar
Meanwhile, former CSKA head coach Viktor Goncharenko won a debut victory at the head of Krasnodar.
Moreover, the Belarusian managed to do it in the away confrontation with Rubin, which is headed by his former colleague Leonid Slutsky.
Plus, the 43-year-old specialist beat a colleague for the first time in his career.
Prior to that, his teams in six games suffered five defeats and one draw.
In particular, last year the Kazan team beat the army team twice.
This time Alexey Ionov brought three points to the southerners. After the arrival of Goncharenko, the footballer turned into a real team leader and scored the third goal in the last two rounds of the Premier League. In the absence of Denis Makarov and Khvichi Kvaratskhelia, Rubin could not recoup and was four points behind the third place.