Loko didn’t win again – Moskovskaya Pravda

Strange penalties, disgusting implementation, indistinct game of Loko, conversation between Barinov and partners with the fans after the match and completely indistinct explanations of the German railway coach – such is the entourage of the game in Cherkizovo.

RPL. 5th round. Moscow. Lokomotiv 1:1 Wings of the Soviets (Samara). Goals: Glushenkov – 68′, Miranchuk – 90+1′ (penalty).

Not entirely clear refereeing of the match by Evgeny Kukulyak led to three penalty kicks, two of which looked very doubtful. Yes, and the implementation of penalties from both teams wants to be better. Glushenkov didn’t score first, Loko’s goalkeeper Khudyakov played brilliantly here, stopping the ball right on the ribbon. The second controversial decision of the referee in the same episode: Yedvay ran into the penalty area much in advance, and for some reason the referee did not indicate that the penalty was taken.

The second penalty is legitimate without question. Isidore was clearly knocked down in the penalty area. That’s just Kamano struck from the point completely mediocre – the ball flew almost in the center, and the goalkeeper of the guests Lomaev was not difficult to catch him. That’s practically all that happened in the first half.

After the break, the hosts’ coach made an unintelligible replacement. Instead of a good (compared to the rest of the railway workers) playing Isidor, the mysterious newcomer Rakognats came out. And “Wings” continued to torment the defense of the hosts, and it was the guests who opened the scoring. From three meters, Glushenkov shot at the Loko gate, with the full connivance of Mampassi, who was watching football.

Then the host’s fans entered the game and started chanting calls for the Germans to leave the club. It probably had an effect on the players, and Ignatiev hit the goal post. And it ended with another controversial penalty. Substitute Khubulov fouled right at the edge of the penalty area, and it all looked like a foul by negligence. But the referee put it on point, and Miranchuk spread the ball and the goalkeeper in different corners.

Loko managed to snatch a draw, but according to the Hamburg score, it was another mediocre match of Muscovites led by a duo of German coaches. In five starting rounds, Lokomotiv failed to win a single victory. Isn’t it time for the German Vikings to go home?

“We created many chances: maybe even a lot for such a viscous game… Lokomotiv dominated, but we played on the counterattacks… We wanted to make substitutions earlier, but we were confused by Gorshkov’s injury – we didn’t know how our players would behave. The score is logical, but we were closer to victory. I can’t say that anything specific happened because of the judge. There are always some little things: a few free kicks, a corner kick that was right in front of the eyes of the side referee – all this caused surprise not only for me, but for everyone who was sitting on the bench, ”the Wings head coach answered in such a detailed way Igor Osinkin to the question of the correspondent of our publication about the strange refereeing.

And to my specific question to the German railway specialist Zinnbauer about the readiness to “armchair” answer for low results, a rather strange and short monologue sounded: “All the players and the coaching staff are disappointed with the result. We could have played better. We had chances, both in the first and second half, but we didn’t manage to turn them into goals. We will work on this even more.”

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo Evgeny Makeev.