Humiliating defeat from Lokomotiv

For Lokomotiv football, this season is not going well, but in the Russian Cup the team pleases its fans, if we do not take into account the starting defeat from Pari Nizhny Novgorod.

After him, the railway workers defeated Krasnodar in a penalty shootout, and now they defeated Khimki - 5: 0.

The Moscow Region team at home could not oppose anything to an angry opponent.

In addition, the hosts' mentor Spartak Gogniev released three young players at once from the first minutes.

One of them, Daniil Kamlashev, was called upon to cover Lokomotiv forward Pedro Gabriel (Pedrinho) on the right side of the defense, but failed to cope with the task.

The Brazilian quickly opened the scoring, and the 20-year-old midfielder, who had not played a single meeting in the RPL, was immediately replaced.

But this did not help to stop the newcomer of the guests, who this evening was unstoppable and easily ran away from the defenders over and over again.

In the 36th minute, he doubled the advantage, bursting into the penalty area and beautifully breaking into the far corner.

And after the break, Pedrinho had 15 minutes to score twice more and complete poker.

His last goal turned out to be especially spectacular, when the Brazilian easily left the opponent, mockingly removed him to the side with a feint and sent the ball on target.

By the way, he became the first footballer in 18 years to score four or more goals in a Russian Cup match.

In 2004, Alexander Kerzhakov upset the Irtysh five times as part of Zenit, and the last poker was chalked up by Konstantin Paramonov in 1996 as part of Amkar.

In addition to Pedro Gabriel, Anton Miranchuk should be noted, who assisted the Brazilian three times.

He scored a hat-trick of assists for the first time in his career at an adult level.

Wilson Isidore scored another goal for Khimki.

Well, the red-blacks continue to crumble after the departure of Sergei Yuran.

In nine meetings, they did not win a single victory with two draws and seven defeats.

In the national championship, they are located in the joint zone, and in the standings of group A of the Russian Cup they are in last place with only one point in liabilities and three losses.

Unexpected misfire "Dynamo"

But the capital's Dynamo, on the contrary, upset its fans, sensationally failing to beat another outsider of the Orenburg RPL on the road.

And at first, nothing foreshadowed the guests of trouble.

They had the advantage and naturally opened the scoring at the end of the first half.

Arsen Zakharyan managed to distinguish himself, interrupting the eight-match streak without points for performance in all competitions.

After the break, Vyacheslav Grulev doubled the advantage of Slavisa Jokanovic's men with a neat shot into the far corner from the penalty semicircle.

It seemed that the intrigue finally died when, in the 76th minute, the hosts midfielder Nikolai Titkov received a second yellow card.

But the team of Marcel Lichka, in the minority, did not give up, but stormed the opponent's goal and created a real miracle.

Moreover, Belarusian football players saved her.

The ball of Oleksandr Pavlovets gave hope to the partners after the corner draw.

And shortly before the final whistle, his compatriot Yuri Kovalev earned a penalty, which was converted by Vladimir Sychevoi.

As a result, the fate of the confrontation was decided in the penalty shootout.

Moreover, the players of Orenburg were the first to make a mistake.

Igor Leshchuk easily coped with an unsuccessful shot by Stepan Oganesyan.

But right there, the most important save was made by Evgeny Goshev, who outplayed the young Yaroslav Gladyshev.

Fatal was the miss of Daniil Lesovoy, who sent the ball over the crossbar.

So Muscovites suffered a second defeat in the tournament and made it difficult for themselves to get into the top 2 of quartet C.

Tough victory for Krasnodar

Krasnodar also faced great difficulties in the match with an opponent inferior in class.

However, Pari Nizhny Novgorod has long established itself as a thunderstorm of authority and in the current draw of the national championship managed to take points from Lokomotiv, CSKA and Dynamo.

In the Cup, he beat the same railroad workers.

This time, southerners were close to home failure.

The first half turned out to be a failure for them: the game was almost equal, and the hosts did not create a single dangerous moment at the gates of the guests.

In the second game segment, with the appearance on the field of Nikita Krivtsov and Olakunle Olusegun, the situation improved, but in general, the team of Mikhail Galaktionov continued to control the situation.

However, in the end everything was decided by the individual skill of the Krasnodar legionnaires.

John Cordoba first converted a one-on-one after a great pass from Mihailo Bagnac and then assisted Olusegun.

Wards of Oleksandr Storozhuk won the second victory in the tournament and took the lead in Group A.

A shameful failure "Sochi"

CSKA, after an unexpected misfire in the match with Torpedo in the RPL, was obliged to beat Sochi in the Cup and rehabilitate itself in front of the fans.

Luckily for them, they succeeded.

The rotation in the opponent's line-up also played into the hands of the army team.

Vadim Garanin left Denis Adamov, Vladislav Sarveli, Artyom Makarchuk, Christian Noboa, Ibragim Tsallagov and other leaders on the bench.

It is not surprising that the red and blue acted as the first number and opened the scoring already in the middle of the first half, when Konstantin Kuchaev finished the ball into the net from a meter after Soslan Dzhanaev's save.

During the break, the coaching staff admitted their mistakes and threw in a few fresh players.

And one of them, Sarveli, quickly managed to restore the status quo.

An attacker from outside the penalty area gently shot low into the far corner so that Igor Akinfeev had no chance of salvation.

Moreover, Vladislav almost became the hero of the match, earning a penalty, but referee Alexei Sukhoi deprived him of these laurels.

The striker ran into someone else's penalty area, but was brought down by Willian Rocha, who hit him on the leg.

The referee first pointed to the "point", but, after conferring with colleagues at VAR, he canceled the decision, considering that the victim himself was making a movement towards the opponent.

And just a few minutes later, the winning goal was scored by Fedor Chalov, who completed an excellent serve from the left flank.

Of course, the southerners did not agree with the outcome of the fight.

According to club president Boris Rotenberg, the referee had no right to cancel the penalty kick.

“In judo, this is called “cutting”, our player Sarveli covered the ball with his body, and the CSKA footballer cut it.

This is a pure penalty, and the referee watched this moment ten times.

What was he looking at?

What for?

Absolutely incomprehensible to me!”

- quotes the words of the head of "Sochi" "RB-Sport".

The first defeat of "Rostov"

An important event was the first defeat of Rostov in the 2022/23 season.

Before the trip to Grozny, Valery Karpin's wards played 12 matches in all tournaments and scored eight wins with four draws.

However, the Akhmat players were doubly motivated for this meeting, as they survived the change of mentor.

The place of Andrei Talalaev was taken by the experienced Sergei Tashuev, who had previously worked with the Soligorsk Shakhtar in Belarus.

And as is often the case, castling on the coaching bridge provided a short-term effect.

The hosts dominated for most of the match and deservedly took the upper hand, despite conceding a goal from the penalty spot at the end of the game.

At the same time, the role of the headquarters in a strong-willed victory is extremely high, because Tashuev and his assistants made timely successful replacements.

Ivan Oleinikov scored a double, Mohamed Konate put an end to the end of the meeting, and Lechi Sadulaev gave him an assist.