Football clubs “Krasnodar” and “Sochi” held the next matches of the tour of the Russian Premier League, and also found out which of the players of the teams was called up to the national team

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“Bulls” in the ninth round met away with one of the leaders of the championship – CSKA. Before the match, the “townspeople” announced the transfer of midfielder Batchi to their squad. The football player of the Angola national team moved to Krasnodar from the Portuguese Chaves. His contract with the bulls runs until the end of June 2025. Last season, the 24-year-old scored seven goals and entered the top three scorers of Chaves. Another team of Alexander Storozhuk joined the holding midfielder Kevin Lenini. He also moved from Chaves. The contract with the 25-year-old football player from Cape Verde was signed for the same period as with Batchi.

No newcomers appeared in the starting lineup of the match against the “soldiers”. The Angolan came on as a substitute in the seventieth minute, but did not show himself in any way. Lenini did not even get into the application. Most likely, he has not yet had time to fly to the location of the club.

CSKA could open an account already in the second minute of the match. Victor Mendez made a low pass into the Krasnodar penalty area, Fedor Chalov picked up the ball with his first touch, and with the second he poisoned it with a bottom into the near corner. Matvey Safonov saved the “bulls” in the fall.

The army team did not have the initiative on the field, but immediately began to create chances. At the 25th minute of the match, referee Sergei Ivanov issued a yellow card to Chalov for diving into the Krasnodar penalty area. But then the referee took advantage of watching the video replay and changed his mind. Safonov received a yellow card, against whom a penalty was awarded. The kick was taken by Jorge Carrascal, who spread the goalkeeper and the ball in different angles – 1: 0.

“Bulls” could immediately recoup. John Cordoba delivered two dangerous blows. In the first case, the attacker did not have enough accuracy, in the second he was saved by Igor Akinfeev. Further, Milan Gaich was already dangerously beating, the fall of Alexei Ionov in the penalty area of ​​CSKA gave hope to the “bulls” in the penalty spot. But Ivanov did not point to the point.

In stoppage time of the first half, a penalty kick was again assigned to the gates of the guests. Olakunle Olusegun knocked down Carrascal in his own penalty area. This time, Fedor Chalov began to hit from the spot. The striker also spread Safonov and the ball in different corners.

The Citizens responded as soon as they entered the second half. After a corner kick, the ball was knocked out of the penalty area, but Christian Ramirez picked it up and scored a goal from a long distance. Akinfeev did not immediately react to such a blow.

But twelve minutes later, the third penalty was awarded to the gates of Krasnodar. This time, Caio played with his hand in his penalty area. Jesús Medina, who beat the penalty spot, could not score, but Gaich corrected the situation. True, it turned out that the player ran into the penalty area before the kick. Ivanov demanded to interrupt the penalty. This time Medina was accurate.

In stoppage time of the match, Adolfo Gaich scored a goal. Ivan Oblyakov delivered the ball to him in the penalty area – the Argentinean handled the projectile with the first touch, and shot into the bottom corner with the second – 4: 1.

Immediately after the meeting, the general director of Krasnodar, Vladimir Khashig, spoke about the result of the match. The club functionary first of all drew attention to the strange odds of bookmakers for the victory of each team. Khashig also said that Ivanov did not point to the point when Ionov was shot down. According to the CEO, the episode was exactly similar to the situation with the appointment of a penalty kick after Olusegun’s foul. Khashig questioned the legitimacy of appointing the first penalty and the decision to kill the third.

“We clearly record that nothing is changing. When Krasnodar meets with the capital’s clubs, non-football factors very often appear that affect the result, the general director summed up.

Khashig said that the club would insist on an investigation into the strange coincidence of the odds of the bookmakers of the CSKA-Krasnodar match and the mistakes of referee Ivanov. He also did not rule out that law enforcement agencies could be involved in this. Later, the club turned to the expert-judging commission under the president of the Russian Football Union with a request to consider a number of episodes of the meeting. So far, experts have not given their verdict. In fairness, it should be noted that in this confrontation, the “soldiers” looked better than the “bulls”. After losing in the capital, Krasnodar dropped to fourth place in the standings with seventeen points, losing third place to Rostov.

Missed a funny goal, but won

“Barcelona” in the ninth round hosted the capital’s “Dynamo”. In this game, Soslan Dzhanaev took the place at the gates of the resorts. Artem Meshchaninov, Vanya Drkushich and Igor Yurganov played in defense from the first minutes. Along the edges – Timofey Margasov and Artem Makarchuk. In the support zone – Christian Noboa and Sergey Terekhov. Ahead – Artur Yusupov and Nikita Burmistrov. On the edge – Georgy Melkadze.

The game immediately started at a good pace. Both teams ran to attack. So, already in the second minute of the match, Makarchuk hit his head into the far top corner, but missed. But the quick goal still happened. Sochi played a beautiful attack, after Yusupov’s long-range throw, Terekhov was the first to have the ball, who passed to Burmistrov, while the midfielder gave a pass to Melkadze in touch. The striker shot into the bottom corner and did not miss – 1: 0.

Four minutes later, Melkadze again struck at the goal, and the striker did it beautifully: through himself from outside the goalkeeper’s area. Anton Shunin fought off the threat, but Burmistrov was the first to finish. The goal was canceled, the chief referee Kirill Levnikov fixed the midfielder offside. This did not upset the Sochi team at all, a minute later they scored according to the rules. First, Makarchuk gave the pass to Melkadze – he carefully sent him to Noboa, the Ecuadorian burst into the penalty area and shot under the post from the center.

Only after the second own goal, Dynamo woke up and began to create dangerous chances. The guests seized the initiative and on the fortieth minute played back one ball, and the Sochi team conceded a curious goal. Meshchaninov decided to play a standard at his penalty with Dzhanaev. For some reason, the goalkeeper began to roll the ball, looking for someone to pass the ball to – Denis Makarov took advantage of this. The midfielder kicked the projectile so that it rolled into the goal.

After the break, the “holidays” played to keep the score. They didn’t have any scoring chances. Dynamo may have tried to change the situation, but the guests did little. As a result, Sochi won with a score of 2: 1. This allowed Vadim Garanin’s team to take sixth place in the standings with sixteen points.

Meanwhile, the coaching staff of the Russian national team announced the expanded composition of the national team before the autumn training camp. It included three Krasnodar players: Matvey Safonov, Sergey Borodin and Nikita Krivtsov. The list also included five academy graduates at once. In addition to Sergei Borodin and Matvey Safonov, these are Nikolai Komlichenko and Daniil Utkin (both from FC Rostov), ​​as well as Daniil Fomin (FC Dynamo). From Sochi, only defender Artem Makarchuk got into the extended list. On September 24, the Russian national team will play a friendly match with Kyrgyzstan. The meeting will be held in Bishkek.

Also, the midfielder of the Bulls, a graduate of the Academy, Eduard Spertsyan, was called up to the Armenian national team, which will play two matches in the League of Nations. His team will play first at home against the national team of Ukraine, and then away against Ireland.