Leonid Slutsky vs Fan ID

“… I’m already shaking: I came to watch football, the turnstile doesn’t work there, something else is here. It’s good that the director of the stadium recognized me, and I miraculously passed. I had to leave a little earlier, and if you leave before the final whistle, you do it with Fan ID too. I won’t go to football anymore, I’ll watch at home, ”the ex-coach of the national team and CSKA Leonid Slutsky was indignant after going to the stadium, which was barely a third full due to the introduction of the awkward Fan ID.

It was the same at the Lev Yashin stadium, where the next failure of Dynamo and its coach Jokanovic was watched by a minimum number of fans – and all this thanks to the very Fan ID. And there was something to look at: a red card from the Sochi goalkeeper Dzhanaev, another unscored Fomin penalty, the heroic game of the southern goalkeeper Adamov, who was even helped by the goal post, and the sensational victory of the Berdyev team in the capital.

Russian championship. 21 tour. VTB Arena. Goals: Drkusic, 67, Makarchuk, 73. Missed penalty: Fomin, 29.

The Malikov family tandem, who opened the match between Dynamo and Sochi, hardly imagined that the hosts would “merge” the game so ineptly. However, they got off to a great start: they took the ball, controlled the game, constantly attacked and could score at the very beginning. But the defender successfully played for the southerners, dragging the ball from the ribbon of his own goal. The guests answered rarely and “toothless”. Sochi’s only half-moment in the half: in the 23rd minute, Nikita Burmistrov played ugly when going two-on-one, not providing a pass to Vladislav Sarveli’s empty net.

And then followed (should have been) punishment from Dynamo. It is not clear why in the middle of the half the goalkeeper of the guests Soslan Dzhanaev ran out of the gate, and even more absurdly tried to “take off” the shorts of Denis Makarov, who was already ready to send the round into an empty net. The referee of the meeting, Roman Galimov, without the help of the VAR, correctly understood the situation – he appointed a 11-meter kick in favor of the blue and white and sent off the Sochi goalkeeper. But Dynamo failed to realize the penalty penalty – Denis Adamov, who came on as a substitute, parried Daniil Fomin’s blow from the spot in an aesthetic way.

Jokanovic’s team continued to attack, and young Tyukavin had his chance. But here, too, Konstantin, who ran behind the backs of the defenders in a corporate style and sent the spotted one into the “enemy” goal, left the Sochi keeper without a line on the scoreboard, who, in my humble opinion, became the hero of the capital-south confrontation.

In the second half, Dynamo continued to attack, take advantage and create prerequisites for opening an account. But, neither Gladyshev, nor Skopintsev, nor Makarov (his kick was saved by the Sochi goal post) was congratulated by teammates on the goal – which is fair, because the ball strongly did not want to cross the goal line of the hero of the southerners Adamov.

And Sochi, led by Kurban Berdyev, and playing in the minority, managed to realize two chances and win (after two goalless defeats in a row) such an important match for themselves. First, in the 67th minute, Christian Noboa served perfectly from the corner flag, Vanja Drkusic headed the ball, the ball hit Luka Gagnidze, and Igor Leshchuk managed to get the leather sphere only from his own goal net.

The guests, seven minutes later, finally “buried” the hosts – a perfect counterattack from Luka Djordjevic, who almost from the “sand pit” geometrically precisely drew the trajectory of a football projectile on the head of Artem Makarchuk, who issued the final result of the game.

After the second goal, Dynamo continued to attack without a goal, and Sochi, without hesitation, even tried to bring the score to a big one. But that would be overkill. The coach of the southerners Berdyev “conquered” Moscow, and the Serbian Jokanovic in Dynamo can only be saved from resignation by a victory in the next cup match with Akron. It’s really hard to believe this…

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo by Sergey Vinogradov