Traktor defeated the champion in Moscow

The Chelyabinsk team left no chance for CSKA and won their sixth victory in a row. Vitaly Kravtsov, Vladimir Tkachev, Nikita Soshnikov and Danil Yurtaikin scored goals for Traktor. For the second time this season, Canadian goalkeeper of the Black and Whites, Zach Fucale, kept a clean sheet.

Not often in history did Traktor come to Moscow for a match against CSKA as a favorite. After the coaching reshuffle (Alexey Zavarukhin, by the way, played the first match as head coach without an acting prefix), the Chelyabinsk team was on an impressive five-match winning streak and significantly improved its tournament position. The army team lost to Lada in the last match, and in general were in the unusual fifth place in the West in the table.

The composition of the Chelyabinsk team is again with minimal changes in the lower ranks. Egor Popov is shifted to the center, and Maxim Marushev to the edge. Alexander Sharov is announced as the 13th striker. The main change is in the goalie position: Zach Fucale starts, Nikita Podskrebalin is in reserve.

From the very first minutes, Traktor began to justify its status as a favorite. Vitaly Kravtsov, returning to the ice after being sent off, made a “brother-in-law” from a negative angle from the foot of Muscovites goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov. Soon after this, Vladimir Tkachev sold most of the Traktor. Also in the starting period, the Chelyabinsk team’s key defender Ilya Karpukhin was injured.

In the second period, the Muscovites still could not do anything against the disorganized Traktor. Nikita Soshnikov brought the score to a major one after an excellent assist from Maxim Marushev. For Marushev this is the first point for the “black and white”, and for Soshnikov it is the third goal in two matches.

In the final period, the guests confidently brought the match to victory. Moreover, he even scored the fourth goal, but the referees canceled it due to offside. It’s a pity, because it was abandoned by Danil Yurtaikin, who moved to Traktor quite recently from CSKA. In the end, the army team really wanted to steal the goal from Zach Fucale, but instead they conceded it into an empty net. Ironically, Danil Yurtaikin ended up scoring the goal.

4:0 – the sixth victory in a row for the Chelyabinsk team. Danil Yurtaikin’s first goal, Maxim Marushev’s first point, Zach Fucale’s second score, Maxim Shabanov’s eighth scoring match in a row. Alexey Zavarukhin’s gang crushes the champion and rushes headlong into the fight for the top 4 in the East. Next, the Chelyabinsk residents will have a visit on November 9 to St. Petersburg to another suffering giant – SKA.