Dzyuba “breaks” Khimki near Moscow

“Some people wanted to do it, but it didn’t work for them. Now, frankly, let’s make it so that the fans come to the stadiums. When the stands are full, it’s a thrill for everyone, we play for the fans, that’s what we need to do! Now everyone is talking about it – both deputies and everyone else. Maybe it can be done somehow? – this is what the country’s most talked about footballer Artyom Dzyuba, who scored two goals in the match against Khimki, says about the “fan’s passport”. Maybe it’s time to listen to those on whom the decision to cancel Fan ID depends?

Russian championship. 25th round. Cherkizovo. Lokomotiv – Khimki 5:1 (1:0). Goals: Miranchuk, 27 (pen.), Dziuba, 52, 70, I. Ignatiev, 73, Isidor, 76 – Rudenko, 60.

A meager audience saw another double of Dzyuba, his incredible goal with the heel and the defeat of the sinking Khimki. And this is not at all due to the cold and rainy weather in Moscow, but to an utter innovation for football fans – “Fan ID”. Why and who needs it, even Dzyuba cannot explain and asks for cancellation – about this at the beginning of our report.

The game itself, which took place almost in a downpour, gave a lot of emotions, beautiful goals, another goal from Artyom Sergeevich and the loss of Khimki, which has already become familiar. Talalaev, who took over the team (the fifth coach in an incomplete season at a club near Moscow), could not oppose anything to Galaktionov and his players. The hosts literally “teared” the guests. Artyom Dzyuba, who was resilient, ageless and unyielding to any #blackmail, threat of provocation, took a direct part in this, sending a couple of balls into Mitryushkin’s goal, one of which will definitely go down in the annals of football history.

The railroad felt the taste of victories, and therefore the poor Khimki in the match with Loko did not shine. And so it happened. One of the Miranchuk brothers, who came out at the start instead of the injured Pinyaev, scored a penalty kick in the middle of the first half. Khimki forwards Dolgov and Rudenko practically did not threaten Lantratov’s goal in the first half of the match. Only Leo Andrade had a moment when a guest player shot from under Dzyuba, but the Loko goalkeeper was on the alert – he pulled out a round near the post.

Judge Bezborodov did not spoil the game with unnecessary whistles and cards, and the locomotives began to realize their advantage from the penalty spot. Miranchuk moved closer to the center, giving Tiknizyan a chance to connect, while Glushenkov, together with Kamano, threatened the Khimki goal. The same Glushenkov earned a 11-meter kick when Antic stopped him with a wrestling move in the penalty area. About the penalty scored by Anton Miranchuk has already been said above – the locomotive player calmly spread the football projectile and the goalkeeper of the guests in different corners.

This was followed by a check of Lantratov’s goalposts from Dolgov: he hit the far one with the ball, and crashed into the near one himself. The scoring extravaganza happened after the break.

The red-greens took the lead in the 52nd minute after a corner and Barinov’s discount on Dziuba. Artyom doubled the score with a spectacular heel strike, causing a strong reaction in the almost empty stands from the fans and on the wet lawn of the Russian Railways stadium from partners. Khimki coach Talalaev, after a breathtaking goal by Dziuba, released jokers Mirzov and Khubulov on the field. And it worked literally right away: the red-blacks, with the help of a pass from Gbane, Magkeev’s mistake and Rudenko’s quickness and prudence, who calmly threw Lantratov, made one match.

It is not clear how Khimki did not equalize the result of the match after their first goal. Mirzov, Khubulov and Rudenko in just a couple of minutes delivered four shots to Lokomotiv’s goal, three of which had to be “dragged” by the goalkeeper, and one more was blocked by the defenders. Ilya in these episodes simply saved his comrades from at least a couple of heads.

And in the 70th minute, Guliyev lost the ball in attack, Lystsov and Khubulov collided in the center, and Kamano and Dzyuba ran away to a rendezvous with Khimki’s only defender. Artyom mathematically accurately calculated the trajectory of the ball, sending the leather sphere past Mitryushkin’s left leg.

Ignatiev and Isidor, who replaced Loko, completed the defeat of the Khimki team. Both scored within five minutes: Ignatiev finished off the ball into the net after a quick attack and Mitryushkin’s hit by Wilson, and Isidor himself in the next attack on the second attempt easily set the final score in the match.

Khimki tried to return to the game, but the only “fighting spirit” of the Moscow Region team was their goalkeeper Mitryushkin, who several times saved the guests from a larger defeat.

It will be very difficult for Khimki to “jump up” to the saving 14th place in the remaining matches, giving the right to play-offs. Railway workers and Dziuba in particular continue to bring football back as a game after the German discord in the team.

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo by Ekaterina Konkina