Do not go home with a passport

This is exactly how briefly, but succinctly, the center forward of CSKA Moscow Fyodor Chalov expressed himself about the “fan ID”, who would definitely be supported by all the participants in the football performance in Cherkizovo.

And it’s hard to come up with another definition of the game between the railway workers and Krasnodar: five goals scored, two removals, a missed penalty, seven yellow cards, another goal of the disgraced (Karpin did not call him to the national team again) Dziuba and a comeback from the hosts – all this became personally available only a handful (slightly more than three thousand) of fans at the stadium in Cherkizovo. Another “thank you” for this to the RFU and the “fan ID”.

Russian championship. 20 tour. Moscow. Lokomotiv 3:2 Krasnodar. Goals: Volkov, 47 (own goal), Glushenkov, 51, Dziuba, 66 – Alonso, 29, Cordoba, 39. Missed penalty: Dzyuba, 45+8. Sent off: Ramirez, 63, Smolnikov, 72.

So only in Russia can they mock the game of millions – after the introduction of the “fan ID”, the attendance of RPL matches has decreased so much that in the next rounds one should expect not even a four-digit, but already a three-digit number of spectators in the stands in Moscow.

The main “engineer” Mikhail Galaktionov returned the 34-year-old Dziuba to the squad, who decided the outcome of the Moscow-Krasnodar confrontation. True, in the first half, neither the star newcomer Loko, nor his partners Miranchuk, Pinyaev and Kamano created anything intelligible at the gates of Agkatsev. The energy of the 18-year-old Pinyaev did not find support from his partners in any way, but the Krasnodar team had a couple of moments and two of them were “executed”.

The first goal of “Krasnodar” was organized by Junior Alonso, with whom he sent the round ball into the net of Lantratov’s goal, outplaying Dziuba when a corner was delivered. The guests doubled the advantage 10 minutes after the first goal – Cordoba, solely on the class and endurance, “left the freshly bought Lokomotiv defender Conti to watch TV, literally rolling a football projectile over the leg of that same newcomer into the hosts’ goal.

The first intelligible action of the future hero of the meeting took place in the 53rd minute (yes, it happens in the first half – as referee Kirill Levnikov added) – Artyom Dzyuba mediocrely struck a penalty kick, allowing the goalkeeper of the guests Stanislav Agkatsev to make a save. The referee at the VAR Kazartsev twice sent the main referee Levnikov to watch the replay for a penalty against Krasnodar, and in the second case a free kick was awarded. Spertsyan really stepped on Smolnikov’s foot. It was this 11-meter kick that the most discussed football player in Russia did not realize.

But after the tea party, the game completely turned upside down. As they would say in the theater, the second act of the play is much better and more interesting than the first. Glushenkov and Zhamaletdinov, who came out for the hosts, brought a fresh spirit into Lokomotiv’s game, which eventually affected the scoreboard and the official match report. Red-green, as if scalded, rushed along the rather high-quality Cherkizovsky lawn, “trampling” all the southerners on the way to the gates. Why the wards of Vladimir Ivic forgot to go to the second half, let them now decide in the leadership of Krasnodar.

For the first six minutes of the second half of the match, the hosts quite easily made the score a draw. Barinov’s lethal blow laid the foundation for the defeat of the guests, which, however, was beaten off by the goalkeeper of the southerners Agkatsev, but the ball treacherously crossed the goal line from Volkov’s foot. And then the fresh-faced Glushenkov burst into the Krasnodar penalty area with exceptional beauty and, having received an amazingly accurate pass from Dziuba, geometrically correctly drew the path of the leather sphere into the away net.

After the score became 2:2, a leaf fall followed: yellow and red cards simply flew over the Cherkizovsky field. Krasnodar left-back Christian Ramirez received two yellow cards in a few minutes. And then Igor Smolnikov saw the second yellow rectangle (and therefore the red card) in front of him.

But between these events, Artyom Dzyuba became the hero of the match. The same Loko captain Barinov, insatiable before the game, sent the ball to the crossbar from close range, where he was guarded by the best sniper (152 goals) in the entire history of the RPL, the locomotive Dzyuba, who sent the spotted into the bull net.

Krasnodar tried to save the match by moving the game to the half of Lokomotiv, but the hosts kept the score and continue to fight for survival in the Russian championship. Artyom Dzyuba continues to pour “firewood” into the almost spectatorless Russian football, not only with his interviews and statements, but also with the actual game and goals. Valery Georgievich Karpin – the coach of the national team – it’s definitely time to start thinking …

Ahead of the RPL is a break, just in time for the games of the national team – with Iran and Iraq. And the RFU will have a couple of weeks to think again about the abolition of the “fan ID”, otherwise they will only go to football “according to the order”.

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo by Sergey Vinogradov