Zenit broke away with a record – Newspaper Kommersant No. 167 (7368) dated 09/12/2022
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The dual power that was established in the Russian Championship during the ninth round after CSKA’s victory over Krasnodar was short-lived, and Zenit quickly regained its sole leadership. Petersburgers smashed Orenburg with a very large score – 8:0 and scored 23 points. And Rostov came in third with 19 points, beating Spartak 4:2.
After CSKA confidently beat Krasnodar with a series of three penalties, Zenit seems to have the most real competitor in the championship race. It is the red and blue that are now keeping the main favorite of the Premier League in good shape and pressing him, not letting him relax. So, for an almost passing match with Orenburg, the Petersburgers probably didn’t have to be especially tuned in thanks to the army team, who in the ninth round caught up with them on points. Of course, no one doubted the outcome of this confrontation, nevertheless, Zenit received additional motivation.
As a result, “Orenburg” was simply rolled into the lawn. In the third minute, Wendel laid the foundation for the rout. Then Ivan Sergeev hit an empty net after going out with Daler Kuzyaev, as they say in hockey, “two to zero.” When soon Kuzyaev had already distinguished himself, it was just right for the guests, according to the same hockey canons, to change goalkeeper Alexei Kenyaykin. And since this is not accepted in football, the goalkeeper had to continue to clear up the mess that the Orenburg defense had become. By the end of the first half hour, Malcolm brought the score to 4:0, and Wendel added a fifth goal “to the locker room.” In the second half, the unfortunate Kenyaykin was upset even by his own defender Alexander Pavlovets, who closed the cross of Sergeyev. But the owners did not calm down. Malcolm scored in the style of a beach footballer, with a falling overhead shot with his back to the goal, and the tireless Wendel then scored a hat-trick. Zenit won with a record result in the history of the club 8:0 and again became the sole leader of the championship, breaking away from CSKA by three points.
The confrontation in Rostov-on-Don also directly affected the situation at the top of the standings. Although Rostov and Spartak, before the starting whistle, were respectively on the seventh and sixth lines, in fact, it was a match for an intermediate third place. Moreover, the Muscovites approached him pretty shabby. The injured Victor Moses and Anton Zinkovsky were joined by Christopher Martins and Ruslan Litvinov, which has already weakened their middle line to the maximum, and failed to strengthen it in the last days of the summer transfer campaign. The red-whites only had time to hastily recruit the Slovenian defender Miha Mevlya, who has experience playing in Russia. Meanwhile, after two defeats from Dynamo and Zenit, it was extremely undesirable for them to lose to another contender for medals.
Despite serious personnel problems, Spartak tried to dominate on the road. Another thing is that with the creativity in the attack, for the same reason, quite understandable difficulties arose. But Guillermo Abascal’s team has such a trump card as Quincy Promes, and in the middle of the first half he materialized a seemingly ordinary canopy from the flank into a goal. The Dutchman took the ball to his chest and sank it into the net with a second touch since the summer, again topping the list of top scorers in the Premier League with eight goals. However, the guests almost immediately missed Dmitry Poloz, allowing him to freely shoot into the corner from the penalty area. And six minutes later they made a similar mistake, ignoring Daniil Utkin in the shock position, who also took advantage of this and brought Rostov ahead.
Well, after the break, Spartak was severely punished for the loss in their own half of the field. The interception instantly transformed into a pass to Nikolai Komlichenko, who calmly dealt with goalkeeper Alexander Selikhov. For the red-whites, this was already a point of no return, especially since Abascal could not strengthen the game with substitutions in the absence of the same Keith Balde and Shamar Nicholson. Moreover, Maciej Rybus fouled on the penalty spot, and Poloz finally sentenced the Muscovites, who only managed to avoid defeat with a big score – 2:4. “Rostov” with 19 points soared into the top three.
Meanwhile, Lokomotiv is still in a fever, which in the ninth round lost to Fakel – 0: 2, despite the fact that the opponent won the first victory in the championship. Voronezh recently fired head coach Oleg Vasilenko, and this shake-up clearly mobilized the team. The railroad, in turn, got rid of the German specialist Marvin Compper, who worked in tandem with Josef Zinnbauer, but he did not seem to have resolved the crisis alone. At the end of the first half, the Red-Greens conceded a rare goal when Yevgeny Morozov’s finishing shot was preceded by three headers. True, it is not clear what the defenders were doing in that episode. Yes, and the author of the second scored goal, Irakli Kvekveskiri, did everything somehow mockingly easily, “undressing” two opponents in the penalty area. Lokomotiv suffered their fourth defeat and ended up in 11th place with nine points, and in the next round they will face a derby with Spartak.
Ninth round
Akhmat – Pari Nizhny Novgorod 1:3
Zhuravlev, 59 — Suleymanov, 22, 61; Gotsuk, 64. Missed penalty: Agalarov (Akhmat), 16.
CSKA-Krasnodar 4:1
Carrascal, 30 (pen.); Chalov, 45+7 (pen.); Medina, 62 (pen.); Gaych, 90+1 – Ramirez, 47.
Khimki – Krylya Sovetov 0:0
Missed penalty: Barach (Wings of the Soviets), 19.
“Ural” – “Torpedo” 2:0
Bicfalvi, 70, 83.
Fakel-Lokomotiv 2:0
Morozov, 45+6; Kvekveskiri, 58.
Zenit-Orenburg 8:0
Wendel, 3, 43, 68; Sergeev, 17; Kuzyaev, 19; Malcom, 29, 59; Pavlovets, 51 (own goal).
Rostov-Spartak 4:2
Poloz, 28, 70 (pen.); Utkin, 34; Komlichenko, 53 – Promes, 24; Sobolev, 76.
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