The illogical defeat of Sochi

After the victory of Sochi over CSKA in the debut match under the leadership of Kurban Berdyev, the fans were waiting for the continuation of the successful series in the home meeting with Orenburg.

It seemed that the southerners were able to score three points and come close to the top 5.

However, in reality, they were waiting for a complete rout - 0:4.

Despite the score, it is difficult to criticize the team, because the opponents showed miracles of implementation.

According to expected goals (xG), they should have scored no more than once (1.13), and scored as many as four.

Incredible luck - all shots on target were productive.

In turn, the hosts fired almost twice as many shots on goal (15:7), but never disappointed Nikolai Sysuev.

The wards of Marcel Lichka were greatly helped by the beautiful goal of Kirill Kaplenko in the 45th minute.

The Belarusian opornik, who has not yet distinguished himself this season, powerfully shot from outside the penalty area into the near corner without a chance for Soslan Dzhanaev.

After the break, the experienced goalkeeper missed three more times.

Team newcomer Matias Perez scored his debut goal after a set piece.

Ivan Bašić gently rolled the projectile down into the far from the penalty area.

And Yuri Kovalev took advantage of a successful rebound and outplayed his opponent from close range.

Thus, Berdyev suffered one of the biggest defeats in his career.

At the same time, the coach's team conceded so many unanswered goals at home for the first time.

"Orenburg" for the sixth time this season recorded four goals and more in the asset.

Tough win for Spartak

The first spring matches of the national championship turned out to be extremely difficult for Spartak.

In the cup matches with Lokomotiv, the red-and-whites demonstrated excellent physical readiness and deservedly advanced to the next stage.

However, in the RPL, they faced much more fierce resistance at home, inferior in the Ural and Torch class.

Moreover, the games turned out to be similar in many respects, except that the result turned out to be different.

The confrontation with the Voronezh team began successfully for the hosts.

Already in the 18th minute, Quincy Promes opened the scoring and scored the 100th anniversary goal in the Muscovites.

He became the seventh player in the history of the club to reach this mark, the second to do so in the 21st century, after Yegor Titov, and the first foreign player.

And shortly before the break, the Dutchman scored a double and exchanged the second hundred.

In addition, he temporarily broke away in the scorer race from Malcolm and Vladimir Pisarsky.

As for coincidences, in the second match in a row, there was a canceled goal by Alexander Sobolev.

This time, the judges, after watching the replay, did not count him because of a slight offside.

But in added time to the first half, they appointed an ambiguous penalty kick against Alexander Selikhov for a weak touch on the opponent by Danil Prutsev.

By this moment, Khyzyr Appaev managed to win back one ball.

And Torch newcomer Reda Rabei converted a penalty kick.

The hosts, of course, can make claims to the referee, but first of all they must figure out why, confidently leading the score, they relaxed and conceded twice in seven minutes.

Unlike the meeting with the Urals, everything ended well for Spartak.

In the end, Abascal went for broke, switching to the game in bulk, and such tactics brought success.

After filing from the flank and Sobolev's discount, Christopher Martins Pereira, who replaced Christopher Martins, hit the opponent's goal.

But the coach, after the final whistle, rushed not to the wards, but to the chief referee Vladislav Bezborodov.

Only the intervention of the players saved him from an unpleasant conversation.

The inflexible character of Lokomotiv

The judges also came to the fore in the confrontation between Akhmat and Lokomotiv.

In Grozny, Pavel Kukuyan, after an hour of meeting, left the railroad workers with nine of them.

At the 20th minute, Stanislav Magkeev, appointed captain, received the second yellow card, and at the 60th minute, Maxim Nenakhov.

However, all four "yellow plaster" rather did not raise questions.

Therefore, the evil genius of the red-greens should be considered not the referee, but Bernard Berisha, who earned three cards on himself.

In winter, he spoke extremely unflatteringly about Magkeyev and, in particular, called him a football player of not the highest level, whom Kosovar "can tear apart."

The defender must have read that interview and stepped on his opponent's foot in revenge already in the opening.

Later, the wound up Stanislav hit Ivan Oleinikov on the head in the central circle, for which he was removed.

But unnecessary emotions from him, apparently, were transferred to Nenakhov, who managed to thwart the attack on Berisha and also hit him in the legs.

Surprisingly, despite the two removals of the guests have been successful.

At the very beginning of the match, newcomers Maxim Glushenkov and Sergey Pinyaev played the effective combination.

The latter, after throwing a partner from the depths, broke into the free zone and outplayed Giorgi Shelia.

So the striker not only scored the debut goal for Loko, but at the age of 18 years and 129 days became the author of one of the team's youngest goals in the RPL.

The record belongs to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who distinguished himself at the age of 18 years and 87 days.

Also in the composition of the Muscovites, another newcomer should be noted.

With the advent of Ilya Lantratov, they managed to solve the goalkeeper problem.

In Grozny, it was the inspired game of a native of the Belgorod region that helped to score the most important three points, although the opponent struck 23 blows.

I especially remember the double rescue shortly before the final whistle, when Lantratov first miraculously reacted to a shot by Hamid Agalarov with his head, and then transferred the ball to the post after finishing off Vladimir Ilyin.

In total, Ilya has five saves.

An important success of Krasnodar

And an extremely interesting coaching duel took place in Krasnodar.

Relations between themselves were sorted out by two Serbian specialists - Vladimir Ivic and Slavisa Jokanovic.

They met for the first time, their paths had never crossed before.

At the same time, teams of specialists approached the game in a different morale.

If Dynamo beat Wings of the Soviets and climbed to a clean fourth place, then Krasnodar not only failed in the Russian Cup, but also failed to beat Torpedo in the RPL.

The beginning of a new stage in Ivic's career was not the best.

Reporting duel, too, was not easy.

Already in the 19th minute, the score was opened by Konstantin Tyukavin.

Due to the injury of Fedor Smolov, the young striker got into the starting lineup in the national championship for the first time since October.

But even, having lost the status of a joker, he continued to do his job perfectly and scored the fourth goal in the last five rounds of the RPL.

He also scored a goal in the cup match against Krylya Sovetov in February.

There were no more reasons for joy among the fans of the blue and white.

But the fans of the southerners had the opportunity to enjoy the magnificent actions of Cadi Borges.

The newcomer looked good in previous meetings, but on Saturday he turned the tide of the confrontation with two accurate shots.

In the first case, Anton Shunin unwittingly helped him, unable to fix the ball in his hands.

But in the second, the Brazilian did everything himself.

He moved from the right flank to the center, beating the opponent along the way, and spun the projectile into the far one.

At the same time, Jokanovic was extremely dissatisfied with the decision of the judges to count the fateful ball.

In his opinion, Moses Kobnan was in an offside position and blocked Shunin's view.

The replay shows that the Nigerian was really offside, but the arbitrators apparently considered that he was passive and did not take part in the episode.

In the interval between Kadi's two goals, Dynamo also remained in the minority.

Mumi Ngamalyo received a straight red for a dangerous jump with spikes in the ankle of Eduard Spertsyan.

Finally, everything became clear in the time added by the referee, when Nikita Krivtsov removed all questions with a powerful blow from the penalty line.

Krasnodar won an extremely important victory from several points of view at once.

She became the debut for Ivic in the Russian Championship and the first for the team in the RPL since October.

In addition, the southerners beat the blue and white for the first time in 4.5 years.

Unexpected problems "Zenith"

Before the home match with Khimki, few could have imagined that Zenit would have problems, because the Petersburgers had long taught everyone that they could easily score their points in the national championship.

Especially in the camp of an outsider, according to media reports, shortly before the meeting with the leader, a conflict broke out.

Allegedly, head coach Spartak Gogniev almost got into a fight with Dmitry Tikhim and Ayaz Guliyev, who were suspended from training with the base.

However, in the end, the favorite won with great difficulty, and his confrontation with the outsider was painfully reminiscent of the battle between Spartak and Torch.

The leader of the team, Malcolm, also easily scored a double, only he did it by the 55th minute.

Moreover, there was also an anniversary, since the Brazilian spent the 100th match for the blue-white-blue.

He also caught up with Promes in the tournament's scorer race.

Further, the hosts, like the red and white, relaxed and immediately paid for it.

Only if the Voronezh team scored twice in seven minutes, then the Khimki team scored in 11. Moreover, they also equalized the score from a penalty kick appointed after watching the replay.

Mikhail Kerzhakov obviously knocked down Alexander Rudenko in the penalty area.

And the evil genius of Zenit was Butta Magomedov, who was not famous for his high performance.

First, he rolled the ball between the goalkeeper's legs, receiving a perfect pass from David Kobesov, and then converted a penalty kick.

But as in the case of the Muscovites, the reservist's accurate shot became a salvation.

Pereira distinguished himself in the capital, and Gustavo Mantuan in the city on the Neva.

By the way, the Brazilian can be called the team's joker, because he scored the fourth goal in the current RPL draw after coming on as a substitute.

Moreover, in the derby with CSKA, his blow also brought victory.

Amazing realization by CSKA

But the army team did not experience any difficulties in the confrontation with the "Wings of the Soviets".

They scored four unanswered goals against Ivan Lomaev and not only broke a three-match losing streak in the championship, but also won their first victory at home since September.

The main headache of Vladimir Fedotov is the implementation, but this time his players used all the chances they had, since they scored only 1.33 in terms of xG.

The coach's personnel moves also worked.

For example, Anton Zabolotny for the first time in the current RPL season appeared at the start and scored his debut goal in the tournament since December 2021.

He also took part in another goal.

After his shot, Lomaev reflected the ball directly at Fedor Chalov.

Ivan Oblyakov, who returned to service after disqualification, also managed to excel.

So the Muscovites in the first half brought the score to a large one.

And in the 75th minute, Willian Rocha put an end to the meeting at the corner draw.

Samarans also had one of the worst meetings in recent times.

Not only did they not cope with the high pressure of the hosts and made gross scoring mistakes in their own half, but they also showed nothing in the attack.

Guests struck just one shot on target.

This is largely due to the fact that the red-blue coped with the key task - they closed Pisarsky.

During the game, he made 29 touches (11th place in the team) and delivered two inaccurate shots, and after an hour he was replaced.