"Revenge" of the ex-wards of Goncharenko: goals from Edzhuke and Chalova helped CSKA defeat Krasnodar in the match of the 29th round of the RPL

Goncharenko against the former team

The last matches were extremely unfortunate for CSKA.

CSKA not only took only one point in three RPL meetings, but also flew out of the Russian Cup, losing to Lokomotiv in the semifinals.

As a result, the home game of the 29th round with Krasnodar actually turned into a fateful one for them.

The victories of Sochi and Rubin left the Muscovites no choice but to score three points.

Otherwise, they lost their last chances of getting into European cups.

The southerners lost them long ago, but for the head coach of the team, Viktor Goncharenko, this match was special, because he headed CSKA for more than four years.

In March, the Belarusian still resigned, but did not remain unemployed for long and in early April signed a contract with Krasnodar.

Under the guidance of a specialist, the team suffered defeats from Arsenal and Sochi, broke up with Zenit and beat Rubin.

Moreover, after some time, Vasily Berezutsky joined Goncharenko's headquarters, who in total gave CSKA almost 20 years in the role of a football player and coach.

But his brother Alexei remained in the capital's team to help Ivica Olic.

Now they were waiting for a rather principled meeting at the VEB Arena.

At the same time, the army team approached the most important confrontation with a number of losses.

In addition to Kherdur Magnusson, Kirill Nababkin and Baktiyor Zainutdinov, Nikola Vlasic could not help the owners.

The Croat's knee injury, received in the previous round match with Ufa, was not so serious, but it still did not get into the application.

Instead, the coaching staff threw Konstantin Kuchaev, who had recovered from an injury, into battle.

And at the forefront of the attack was not Jose Salomon Rondon, but Fyodor Chalov, who last week interrupted a protracted goalless streak.

But the losses of the guests were minimal.

Goncharenko could not count only on the long-injured Christian Ramirez.

Also, Remy Cabella did not take part in the game, although his sending-off in the match against Sochi was recognized as erroneous.

The rate of "Krasnodar" on the active start

Goncharenko relied on an active start, and Krasnodar literally forced the opponent to fight back in panic in the first minutes.

The guests put high pressure on the hosts and did not even allow them to take the ball out of the field.

Only by a miracle he did not find himself in the net of Igor Akinfeev's goal.

The apotheosis of this segment was the hit of a shell in the bar after a corner kick.

Moreover, Igor Diveev struck his own goal.

Gradually CSKA managed to recover and calm down the game.

The Red and Blue seized the initiative and tried to find free zones in the opponent's defense.

However, the team did not do it very well.

Every time she missed the last pass.

Chalov was almost invisible, who rarely met with the ball in the penalty area.

The right flank of Mario Fernandez and Kuchaev was surprisingly inert.

But on the opposite side, Chidera Ejuke was traditionally active.

In turn, the southerners took advantage of the weak play of the Nigerian in destruction and the inexperience of Nair Tiknizyan and tried to put pressure on this particular zone. In the end, this tactic fully paid off. In the middle of the first half, the young defender, under pressure, gave an unsuccessful pass to Ivan Oblyakov, which was intercepted by Kristoffer Olsson. Then the guests played the attack like clockwork. Aleksey Ionov rolled the ball to Markus Berg from the right corner of the penalty area, who shifted the shell under the other foot and rolled it out to be hit by Viktor Klasson.

However, Krasnodar did not lead long.

After just six minutes, CSKA bounced back and demonstrated that the opponent's defense could hardly be called ideal either.

Alan Dzagoev, from the left flank, made a pass into the penalty area to Oblyakov, who was calmly allowed to turn around and roll the ball on the undisguised Edzhuk.

Chidera, instead of striking a touch, removed Cayo Pantaleana on a pause and sent the projectile into the far corner.

For the Nigerian, this goal was the fourth in the current RPL season and the second after the arrival of Olic.

CSKA advantage in the second half

But the second half, "Krasnodar" surprisingly completely failed. During the break, Goncharenko replaced Smolnikov, who could not cope with Edzhuke on the right flank of the defense, with Dmitry Stotsky. However, Olic's castling turned out to be much more effective. At the 53rd minute, he threw Rondon into the battle instead of the inert Kuchaev and switched to a game of two forwards.

And this decision immediately bore fruit. However, the Muscovites' fans should first of all thank Yuri Gazinsky for the goal. The midfielder of the Russian national team in the center of the field unsuccessfully handled the transfer of a partner and actually presented the ball to Edjuka. Chidera pushed him forward and made a cutting pass on the move into the penalty area fresh Rondon. Alexander Martynovich, in a tackle, seemed to be able to stop the Venezuelan, but he nevertheless threw the shell past Matvey Safonov and performed a cross at the empty net for Chalov. Fedor also scored a goal in the second meeting in a row.

Having missed, "Krasnodar" openly swam and began to miss one dangerous attack after another.

In the 60th minute, Safonov made a double save.

First, he coped with Edjuke's shot from outside the penalty area, and then he parried the finishing move from Tiknizyan with his foot.

Immediately the ball hit Wanderson's forearm, but the referee Vitaly Meshkov did not assign a penalty.

CSKA coped without him.

The hosts put an end to a beautiful corner kick.

And again, Rondon took part in the effective combination.

He threw the ball to Viktor Vasin with his head, who also made a perfect pass to Fernandez with his head.

And the naturalized Brazilian sent the ball into the net from the goalkeeper's limits.

After that, the meeting could end.

Goncharenko continued to make substitutions by inertia and even switched to a different scheme, but this did not help.

Rather, the army team could bring the matter to defeat.

Shortly before the final whistle, Ejuke burst into the penalty area, defeating two opponents on the way, and only slightly missed the far corner.

Thus, Olic's wards won their first victory in almost a month and retained the chances of getting into the European cups.

In turn, Krasnodar, under the leadership of the ex-mentor of the red and blue, suffered a third defeat and remained in 11th place.