Andrey Talalaev was torpedoed from his post - Sport - Kommersant

Andrey Talalaev was torpedoed from his post - Sport - Kommersant



The leadership of the Moscow "Torpedo", which occupies the last place in the championship of Russia, has decided to terminate the employment contract with the head coach Andrey Talalaev. For five months of work in the club, which is the undisputed outsider of the tournament, the 50-year-old specialist has not managed to achieve a turning point in the results.

Moscow Torpedo announced the breakup with Andrey Talalaev on its official website. In a statement club emphasizes that the decision to terminate the employment agreement was made by agreement of the parties, the president of "Torpedo" Yaroslav Savin expressed gratitude to Mr. Talalaev for the joint work. “Great efforts were made to train the players, develop the team and the club. We sincerely wish Andrei Viktorovich a successful continuation of his coaching career, ”said Mr. Savin and specified that the name of the new head coach of Torpedo would become known this week.

The resignation of Andrei Talalaev happened the next day after a fundamental change took place in the leadership of Torpedo, which, according to the official website of the FC itself, was planned. Leonid Yukhnevich was elected as the new chairman of the board of directors of the club instead of Anatoly Khodorovsky.

However, no matter what the leadership of Torpedo is guided by, the decision to dismiss Andrei Talalaev looks logical. Having changed in mid-October last year, as head coach of Nikolai Savichev, he failed to improve his results. The only full-fledged victory in 12 matches under the leadership of Andrey Talalaev - over CSKA with a score of 1: 0 - was won by the Torpedo team in the Russian Cup, in which they lost to the representative of the First League at the 1/4 final stage of the Way of the Regions Akron from Tolyatti. As for the championship of Russia, in the last eight matches they suffered six defeats and two draws. True, due to the violation of the rules by Nizhny Novgorod in the last round match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, Torpedo was awarded a 3-0 victory.

The pale game of "Torpedo" has led to the fact that at the moment, after 20 rounds, the team has only 10 points and is at the very bottom of the standings.

It will be very difficult for Torpedo players to avoid relegation from the Russian Premier League. Seven points separate them from the play-off zone, and in ten rounds to eliminate such a backlog is an unrealistic task.

Recall that earlier Andrey Talalaev, 50, coached Krylya Sovetov, Khimki, Tambov, Volga and several other teams, and his previous place of work was Akhmat, which fired specialist in September 2022.

Evgeny Fedyakov



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