Doubles of Bikfalvi and Sobolev, Lutsenko's first touch goal and Slutsky's anti-record: what did the 27th round of the RPL remember

Sensational misfire "Dynamo"

The main event of the 27th round of the RPL was the early championship of Zenit.

Thanks to Dynamo's sensational home misfire in the match with the outsider Ural, the Petersburgers got the opportunity to secure the first place ahead of schedule and took advantage of it.

It remains to be stated that the wards of Sandro Schwartz fell at the decisive moment in the second season in a row.

In the past, they missed the chance to win medals and finished seventh, but this time they suffered two defeats in a row and opened the way for the title for their main competitor.

And at the beginning of the meeting, there were no signs of trouble.

The hosts had an overwhelming advantage and already in the seventh minute opened the scoring after filing a corner.

Arsen Zakharyan scored the sixth goal in the current draw of the national championship.

However, in the middle of the first half, the guests, who had practically never crossed the center of the field before, scored two goals in four minutes and turned the tide of the unsuccessful confrontation.

Anton Shunin was upset by Eric Bikfalvi and Daniel Mishkic.

Finally, everything became clear after the Romanian scored a double.

The seasoned striker is having another strong season.

Only in the RPL, he has already scored eight times, while the whole team - 21. But Shunin failed the game.

With four shots on target, he missed three times, and twice - into the near corner.

In the end, Clinton N'Zhier, who replaced Dynamo, reduced the backlog of Dynamo to a minimum, but Muscovites were not enough for more.

They managed to be defeated, although they outnumbered their opponent by almost three times in the number of blows - 25:9.

But, having missed twice, they could not recover.

Nightmare defeat of "Ruby"

Well, Rubin can be recognized as the main loser of the tour.

After a draw with Spartak and a victory over Arsenal, Kazan seemed to have come to their senses a little.

However, they failed their home meeting with Sochi and suffered the biggest defeat in history in the elite division of the national championship - 0:6.

For Leonid Slutsky, it also became the largest in his career.

Well, after a draw in the Arsenal - Nizhny Novgorod match, his wards completely sank into the joint zone.

It makes no sense to describe everything that happened at the Ak Bars Arena.

The guests literally tore the opponent apart in quick attacks and created one moment after another at the gates of Yuri Dyupin.

The defense and the support zone of the hosts did not seem to exist at all - the opponent weaved combinations so easily.

It is surprising that in such a productive game no one scored more goals.

But the 11th goal in the championship was scored by Mateo Cassierra, who shares third place in the race of scorers of the tournament with Artyom Dzyuba and Fedor Smolov.

Substitute performers also performed superbly.

Kirill Zaika, Georgy Melkadze and Ivelin Popov hit the goal of others, and the last two also assisted partners.

Faded performance of CSKA

Things are not going well for Slutsky's former team - CSKA.

In the last five rounds, the army team won only one victory, two draws and the same number of defeats.

After the success in the Moscow derby with Dynamo, the fans believed in the end of the unsuccessful segment, but a week later the players disappointed again.

Moreover, the red and blue on the road managed to give way to Akhmat, which has always been considered a convenient rival for them.

Illustrative statistics: Grozny lost to Muscovites eight times in a row, never even managing to distinguish themselves.

The series was interrupted by Daniil Utkin, who had an amazing season.

At the very beginning of the second half, he opened the scoring with an unexpected long-range strike.

Igor Akinfeev was stumped by the trajectory of the ball and could not help out partners.

And the midfielder scored the seventh goal from outside the penalty area.

This season, no one else scored, not only in the RPL, but also in the top five European championships.

The best result for Fabian Ruiz from Napoli is six.

And in the 97th minute, Utkin also made an assist for Bernard Berisha.

CSKA completely failed the match and did not create a single dangerous moment.

Giorgi Shelia frankly missed the last frontier, because he only had to save the team once.

And Alexei Berezutsky, after the final whistle, directly admitted that his wards deservedly lost.

Fantastic luck "Krasnodar"

Rostov, unlike Akhmat, again failed to do anything with an uncomfortable opponent in the person of Krasnodar.

In the last 18 southern derbies in all competitions, the yellow-blues have won only one victory.

This time they approached the game as favorites, because after returning to the post of head coach Valery Karpin, they caught courage.

Yes, and the start was completely left to the guests.

Moreover, Nikolai Komlichenko, a pupil of the Bulls, opened the scoring already in the fourth minute.

The striker first hit the gates of his native team.

However, a good start had a dampening effect on the Rostovites, and they managed to quickly miss twice.

First, Nikita Krivtsov scored his debut goal in the RPL, and then Igor Kalinin clumsily cut the ball into his own net after a cross from the flank.

In the future, the hosts owned the initiative and could repeatedly increase the advantage.

But in the second half of the meeting on the field were only yellow and blue.

They regularly ran away to branded counterattacks and broke into free zones in the opponent's half.

But by some miracle it was no longer possible to upset Matvey Safonov.

Fortune was on the side of the hosts that evening.

What are at least two removal of Yegor Sorokin from his own goal line.

So Karpin's wards interrupted the four-match winning streak in the RPL.

In addition, due to an injury, they lost midfielder Kirill Shchetinin, who made his way to the base in the spring.

The first comeback of Spartak

Spartak also played two different halves in a home match with Wings of the Soviets.

The first completely remained for the Samarans.

They more often owned the ball and regularly went through the defense of the hosts at speed.

Muscovites were still lucky to miss only once.

And again, there was a penalty kick against them, the third in the last two rounds.

This time the referee Evgeny Turbin, after watching the replay, pointed to the "point" for the handball of Samuel Gigot.

Alexander Selikhov was close to parrying another penalty kick, but from his foot after hitting Yuri Gorshkov the ball still flew into the net.

In the second half, the course of the game changed completely.

In many ways, this was facilitated by the successful castling of Paolo Vanoli.

In particular, already during the break, he threw Shamar Nicholson into battle instead of Mikhail Ignatov and switched to a scheme with two attackers.

The idea worked instantly.

After an hour of the game, the Jamaican earned a penalty, and Alexander Sobolev converted it.

The appearance of Quincy Promes, who recovered from injury, had a positive effect on the actions of the red-whites in the attack.

Igor Osinkin responded with the release of the third central defender, but this did not help.

In the end, Sobolev, just after hitting the Dutchman and saving Ivan Lomaev, finished off the ball into the net.

Mateo Barac took it out already because of the "ribbon", which did not escape the attention of the arbitrators.

Sobolev scored the first double this season, and in a meeting with the former team.

And Spartak won a debut strong-willed victory and at least avoided a direct relegation to the FNL.

Rescue of "Ufa" and "Arsenal"

No less interesting events took place at the bottom of the standings, because six teams at once run the risk of at least getting into the joints.

In the 27th round, four of them met each other.

However, no one managed to win the most important victory - both matches ended in a draw.

Khimki were very close to beating Ufa at home.

Ilya Kukhachruk opened the scoring after half an hour of confrontation, and the hosts kept him almost until the final whistle.

At the same time even earlier, in the 12th minute, they were in the minority.

Elmir Nabiullin received a direct red card for a rough foul on Alexander Belenov.

The goalkeeper was also unable to continue the game and will miss the end of the season.

In the majority, the Bashkortostanians had an overwhelming advantage and, in particular, delivered 15 shots on goal, but could not oppose Ilya Lantratov.

It was possible to break through it only from the “point”.

In the 91st minute, Hamid Agalarov converted a penalty and scored the 18th goal of the season.

And the mentor of the Moscow Region squad, Sergei Yuran, after the final whistle, was so indignant at the work of the referee that he was also removed.

Arsenal also parted ways with Nizhny Novgorod, although in the course of the first half it seemed that Tula had no chance.

Already by the 30th minute they conceded two unanswered goals by Kirill Gotsuk and Nikolai Kalinsky.

However, in the added time to the first half, Sergei Tkachev reduced the gap to a minimum.

This gave the Gunners strength and after the break they unleashed a flurry of attacks on the opponent's goal.

In the end, the bulk brought results.

Miodrag Bozovic's wards were not confused even by an unrealized penalty kick.

Nikita Goylo, who played his debut game in the RPL, parried an ingenuous shot from George Despotovich right in the center.

The Serb immediately gave way to Yevgeny Lutsenko, who restored the status quo with his first touch.

True, the draw is unlikely to greatly delight the fans of the hosts, because Arsenal have not known victories in the championship since the beginning of December and are in last place.