Spartacists “drowned” Sochi residents – Moskovsky Pravda

Spartak is the sole leader of the RPL – when did this happen !? The team of Guillermo Abascal defeated Sochi, having a great second half. We will find out whether the red-and-whites are ready to fight for the championship with Zenit in early September after their face-to-face meeting in Moscow.

Russian championship. 5th round. Tushino. Spartak 3:0 Sochi. Goals: Promes, 57, 84, Zinkovsky, 71.

For a long time, Spartak has not pleased its fans with such a cool game. Abascal retained the 4-4-2 formation with a rhombus in the center, and returned to the base of Spartak after Jikia was damaged. “Sochi” started with a practically combat squad, only this militancy was enough for the southerners only for the first half.

The teams started aggressively, thinking only about the attack, trying to quickly deliver the ball forward and meet each other high. This gave the match a positive color. The red-and-whites could count on a 11-meter free-kick in the very first attack. Yusupov made a mistake near his goal, Sobolev fell in the fight against Angban, but the referee Meshkov did not “bought” the primitive “dive” of the Spartak player. Due to the fact that the referee did not blow whistles, the good pace of the match continued until the very last minute.

Sobolev had several “visits” to the gates of Adamov, however, to no avail. Sochi tried to stretch the Spartak rhombus, quickly moving the round from flank to flank. A bunch of Terekhov – Makarchuk acted competently in the middle of the field, and Noboa productively opened up and handed out balls to partners. Southerners won the first half on strikes – 6:3. But only Sarveli managed to hit the target. The first half was also remembered by a curiosity: Melkadze “forgot” to go out on his own with Selikhov, either pitying his former partner, or mistakenly believing that he was out of the game.

With the beginning of the second half, only red and white were on the field. The Spartacists caught the game, rushed across the lawn like clockwork, and the Sochi residents could not keep up with the speed of the young coach’s team. Promes excelled first. Southerner Terekhov, who came under pressure from Ignatov, “brought” it to his goal, and Quincy easily outplayed Adamov.

After Spartak’s goal, neither Vadim Garanin nor Alexander Tochilin were able to make any substitutions, shouts or hints to “return” the Sochi players to the game.

The next Spartak counterattack ended with the second capture of the Sochi fortress. Joaozinho made a “cut”, and the Spartacists ran away four in three. Martins, Zobnin and Sobolev organized a “holiday” for Zinkovsky – the first goal for the capital club. The newcomer of the team skillfully laid the football projectile into the Sochi net.

But Sochi had a chance to either return to the game, or at least return one goal: Melkadze incredibly managed to shoot from under Jikia – Selikhov and the goalkeeper’s girlfriend, the bar, saved Spartak. And the team from the shores of the Black Sea got the third goal after another mistake in defense. Promes and Zobnin mockingly easily “rolled out” the defense of the southerners, “sinking” the Sochi ship. Quincy is simply unstoppable, he already has 6 + 2 in the “goal + pass” system in five rounds of the RPL.

After this victory, Spartak became the first team to reach 500 victories in the Russian Championship.

“The first half was mixed success. We created some good chances but failed to convert them. In the second half, unfortunately, we made mistakes. “Spartak” is in such a state that he does not forgive this. For this, we were punished, ”Sochi head coach Alexander Tochilin commented on the outcome of the game.

Answering the question of the correspondent of our publication about the upcoming derby “Dynamo” – “Spartak” and about the weakness of the blue and white in the match with Krasnodar, the head helmsman of the red and white Abaskal slightly opened his cards: “Our entire staff was at the Dynamo match against Krasnodar “. We are thinking about the opponent of the next round. Krasnodar are very strong both tactically and physically. It’s not easy to stop them. Each match is different, if you lose concentration, you can lose everything. I don’t think we have a better chance of winning than Dynamo.”

In a week we will see how everything ends at the Lev Yashin stadium.

Vladimir Sabadash.

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