Maxim Maxaim Trankov against the introduced Fan ID

“… I consider it humiliating to confirm my identity at the MFC, this is not normal,” – “a voice crying in the desert” from skater Maxim Trankov, a fan of Zenit. Who else should oppose the “fan ID” so that the RFU would understand the disastrous power of this innovation for Russian football?

According to media reports, the Russian government is discussing options for amending the fan card law, which, for example, will allow children under 14 not to issue a Fan ID. The bill’s proposed reforms could also make it easier for season ticket holders to obtain a Fan ID for the club’s matches. All this is a “drop in the ocean” – isn’t it easier to cancel the Fan ID and fill the stadiums with fans?

So for the “saving” match (losing to Nizhny could come back to haunt coach Jokanovic) a meager number of fans came to the bowl of the Dynamo stadium named after Lev Yashin. Apparently, this had such an effect on the hosts that only in the 56th minute they delivered the first shot on target (a football projectile ricocheted from the defender “NN” into the goal post of Nigmatullin) of the guests.

Russian Premier League. 23rd round. Dynamo 3:1 Paris Nizhny Novgorod. Goals: Glushakov -67′, Gladyshev -79′, Fomin-85′, Smolov-90+5′.

Until the aforementioned 56th minute, one team played football on an almost perfect lawn in Petrovsky Park – guests from Nizhny, led by a new mentor – Sergey Yuran. Jokanovic’s team was inert, unintelligible and incompetent. And the potential coaching resignation of the Serbian specialist could “activate” by the end of the match.

But miraculous substitutions by Slavisa Jokanovic in the second half blocked this option, or at least postponed it. But first, in the 54th minute, Nizhny ran off to a quick attack on the flank: Momo Yansane bungled the shot after a cross, which caused a stormy reaction from the entire guest coaching staff. Dynamo responded with the very moment that was mentioned at the beginning of the report.

To intrigue the meeting and improve the mood of a small number of spectators, Nizhny scored. The ball hit the hand of Dmitry Skopintsev, the VAR called the match referee Artem Chistyakov to “watch” the TV, and Denis Glushakov perfectly executed the penalty kick.

It was after the conceded goal that the Dynamo team woke up and began to play what they can do quite well. First, Yaroslav Gladyshev, who came on as a substitute, ideally moved to the center of the guests’ penalty area, from where he literally “flashed” the goalkeeper and defender of Nizhny.

After another seven minutes, Dynamo took the lead. Criticized lately by everyone (including your humble servant) and the whole Daniil Fomin “uncovered his gun” and “loaded” at the gates of the guests from 30 meters. Artur Nigmatullin failed to cope with the blow.

At the end of the match, Konstantin Tyukavin, who was loitering on all the edges, earned a penalty. Fyodor Smolov approached the spotted one and, not without foppishness and a bit of luck, nevertheless sent the leather sphere to the net of Nizhny Novgorod.

Jokanovic, thanks to his own successful substitutions, has postponed the question of his resignation now exactly until the end of the season. And Yuran’s team will have to fight for a place above the joint zone.

Vladimir Sabadash.

Photo by Ekaterina Konkina