Following Shalimov: which of the RPL coaches is at risk of losing their jobs in the near future

In recent years, in the Russian Championship, teams often decided to change their coach even before they had time to go one-sixth of the distance.

A year ago, two clubs at once, for various reasons, made a castling after the third round: Rostov was forced to let go of Valery Karpin because of his employment with the Russian national team, and Ural ceased cooperation with Yuri Matveev due to unsatisfactory results.

Ekaterinburg lost to Krasnodar and Sochi, and took points only in the confrontation with Nizhny Novgorod.

And although the two rivals were among the leaders, this did not affect the decision of the president of the club, Grigory Ivanov.

Then Ural went on personnel changes on August 10, and this time it surpassed its own achievement.

Rumors about the possible resignation of Igor Shalimov appeared in the media immediately after another unsuccessful meeting with Spartak.

The hosts could not oppose anything to one of the leaders of the league, having conceded two unanswered goals.

And on Monday Ivanov made an official confirmation.

“Today we met and talked with Igor Shalimov.

How was our meeting?

We came to a mutual decision - Igor Shalimov is leaving Ural, Ivanov told Sport-Express.

At the start, Ural suffered four defeats in a row with a total goal difference of 1:10.

In the entire history of the Russian Championship, only one team spent this segment in the same inexpressive way.

In the 2012/13 season, Dynamo Moscow lost four matches and conceded nine goals, without responding with a single one scored.

As a result, even during this disastrous series, Dan Petrescu replaced Sergei Silkin on the coaching bridge and subsequently managed to rectify the situation.

The Blue and White not only avoided relegation, but also finished seventh, only two points behind Rubin, who qualified for the European Cup.

With Ural, the situation is different, and therefore the dismissal of Shalimov does not seem to be a panacea.

Unlike Dynamo, Yekaterinburg does not have players of the caliber of Kevin Kuranyi, Christian Noboa and Balash Dzhudzhak, so they could hardly seriously compete with Spartak, CSKA and Krasnodar, who were among their opponents at this stage of the championship.

In fact, the “bumblebees” mentor deserves criticism only for the fiasco in the match with Orenburg, but even then the circumstances were not in favor of his wards.

At the 36th minute, they remained in the minority - Leo Goglichidze was sent off for a foul of last hope, and ten of them fell down.

Therefore, it is not entirely logical to blame Shalimov for all the troubles of the team.

Although the results of the Urals look depressing, it seemed more correct to give the specialist the opportunity to rehabilitate himself.

In the next two rounds, the team was expected to meet with opponents in the struggle to maintain residence in the top division - Fakel and Pari NN, and it would be more logical to assess its current state by them.

A line above the "Ural" is "Torpedo", which is a little more fortunate with the schedule.

In the first two rounds, he came across Sochi and Dynamo, after which the level of his opponents dropped noticeably.

And if the overclocked Khimki failed to take points, then the Wings of the Soviets managed to snatch a draw.

And this is a serious success, given the alignment of forces.

Samarans finished the last championship in eighth place, and the cost of the team is twice that of Muscovites (€ 26 million - € 12.68 million).

And although the president of "Torpedo" Denis Maslov openly declares that it is still premature to talk about the termination of cooperation with Borodyuk, there are prerequisites for this.

And in this case, we can talk not only about disappointing results, but also about caring for the health of a specialist.

The state of Alexander Genrikhovich at the end of the meeting with Sochi aroused fears on the part of many journalists and made me seriously think about whether he was able to cope with such enormous pressure.

In any case, while Torpedo seems to be one of the weakest in the RPL, both in terms of the quality of the squad and the game.

If we take the number of expected goals excluding penalties (NPxG), then according to this indicator, Muscovites occupy the last place in the Premier League (2.8), behind both Pari NN (2.84) and Ural (2.9 ).

Their style cannot be called modern either, which qualitatively distinguishes it from the same “Torch”.

The team prefers to act as the second number and puts pressure worse than most opponents, which makes you think once again about Borodyuk's methods.

Of course, all this can be justified not by the strongest selection of performers and the lack of large-scale gains, but it is hardly worth counting on it in the future.

"Avtozavodtsy" do not have the financial capacity to afford high-profile transfers, and in these conditions, an additional burden falls on the coach.

At some point, even the absence of claims against the mentor can provoke the management to look for a replacement.

After all, if one fails to make the team "jump over their heads", the other can succeed.

In this regard, it is enough to look at the example of Fakel, which managed to take points from Dynamo and Krasnodar.

But if the problems of Ural and Torpedo hardly surprised anyone, then the failure of Lokomotiv was a real surprise.

Even the sports director of the club, Thomas Zorn, did not hesitate in expressions and frankly called the results of the red-green "catastrophe".

Such rhetoric of the functionary prepared the perfect ground for the question of whether a poor start to the season could affect the future of head coach Josef Zinnbauer.

"Not!

Until we think about it.

We see the team taking steps forward in terms of what is required of them.

Of course, such a result cannot be justified, but Zinnbauer's resignation is not currently being considered, ”Zorn assured RB-Sport.

Two major defeats in a row from direct competitors and the loss of points in duels with opponents inferior in class can be considered a worthy reason to discuss the future specialist in Moscow.

Worse, Lokomotiv started only in the 2006 season, when they scored only one point in four matches.

But then the bosses retained their trust in Slavolyuub Muslin and were rewarded for this.

By the tenth round, the red-greens straightened out the situation and returned to the group of leaders, and after the 18th they completely occupied the first line. The more surprising was the decision to fire the Serb after losing to Moscow - the first in 19 previous meetings of the national tournament.

Then the departure in the first round of the UEFA Cup from Sylte Waregem played an important role, but this step does not become less ambiguous.

The current situation with Lokomotiv is further complicated by the fact that few people are able to give an unambiguous answer about the role of one or another representative of the headquarters.

Now it includes Zinnbauer, who came in the summer, former head coach Zaur Khapov and his assistant Marvin Kommper, who at the end of the last championship, not without reason, was considered the leader in the duet.

Therefore, it is not clear which of the specialists is responsible for the unsuccessful performance of the team and who will have to leave the capital if there is no progress.

The leadership of Lokomotiv will surely allow the current mentors to exist for some time.

And there are several reasons for that.

Firstly, Muslin's example demonstrates that it is difficult to draw balanced conclusions about the team's performance based on such a short period.

Secondly, the railway workers continue to prioritize the principles that Ralph Rangnick, the former head of sports and development, is so fond of, according to whose training manuals the club is trying to develop.

Let now the pressure is not debugged, and the number of problems goes off scale.