CSKA did not cope with Lokomotiv for the second time in the championship. And this, no matter how masked the huge disappointment steering army club, failure for them is extraordinary. In the autonomous derby tournament of the three metropolitan giants that ended, the red and blue remained closing, taking only a couple of points (both from Spartak) out of a dozen possible.
Yes, CSKA still has great views of the November harvest. But now, even if the army team has successfully maintained the title, their opponents and ill-wishers will have occasion to talk about the championship with a wormhole - not so much in Hamburg's account.
Over the past week, the club of Eugene Giner was forced to fight for a shaky reputation. The chain reaction of events was awakened by Wagner Love, recklessly and without calculation of consequences, he was released on an overseas visit. So the Brazilian at once changed the image of the striker who had gained the course for the role of a genie who left a bottle. The country unanimously doubted the cleanliness of CSKA’s victory over Tomyu: if with a light heart they gave dismissal to a key player, that means they knew that no complications were expected in Tomsk. They were not there. Here the logic is like in the cult series by Zurov Zurov: one gun outweighs many other arguments that contradict the chosen version. It seems to be a “dumb” leading defender who spoke on the phone with reporters and hastily shot campaigns for the club president in the genre of “no tie” for the federal sports channel. And even more so of thoughtful reasoning in line with the notorious: “Which coach will do this?” How can he assemble a team for the next match after this? ”
Note just in case: Zheglov was not right with arguments regarding the pistol. This is to the fact that we do not insist on anything. But we dare to note that Valery Gazzayev could not “assemble” the team for the next match after Tomsk (cup working off for a take), for some reason. CSKA played faceless against Lokomotiv, to put it mildly, with no signs of courage. And this is in the duel, where the victory helped the army team to simplify the rest of the domestic season to the utmost, to preserve their health for the Champions League.
What impressed me was not the defeat of the leader as such, but the submission of the losers to the strength and mood of others. A kind of ideological poverty. The restructuring for the game of two forwards, undertaken with the score 0: 1, did not bring any meaningful benefits. Dudu's retaliatory goal happened too soon (just a free kick) after replacing Aldonin with Wagner Love to look for a causal relationship here. In the future, the game did not show exactly any signs of tactical life. Until the final whistle, the only means of penetrating to someone else's goal was the methodical earning of standards with unsuccessful throwing the ball into the penalty area. It seemed that the tone of team slowness was set by the imposing indifference of Carvalho, reminiscent of his July depression. Without his pointing legs, the flanks hardly worked at creation. Even in the second half, when the opponent moderately tempered the attacking claims, CSKA never once turned on pressure in the other half and gave Loko time to safely rebuild the redoubts after losing the ball. CSKA was lost in the middle of the field. By the way, the effect of this failure could be completely devastating if the referee Trefoloni did not show condescension to Rakhimich. Throughout the match, the Italian issued fair warnings with metronome pedantry, and only flinched - when, half an hour before the final whistle, did not show the second “mustard” for the army Bosnian for rudeness and did not leave CSKA without a second supporting midfielder. The first (Aldonin) by that time Gazzaev himself recalled from the field ...
Supporters of Loko, who are indignant at waiting for compliments to the winners, are in a hurry to console everyone in full agreement with the postulate: everyone plays as his opponent allows. So, before the break, Slavolyub Muslin's subordinates allowed the home team a little. Serbian coach, not previously seen in a penchant for tactical courage, contrary to expectations, retained the creative construction with which his team had a great time a week earlier the first half against Spartak. Forwards Sychev and Traore, midfielders of Loskov, Izmailov and Bilyaletdinov provided the Loko game with a powerful offensive component. Such an emphasis will not be superfluous: in both scoring actions, the penultimate transfer was performed by the opornik Gurenko. A working Belarus - the personification of game discipline - is not the first match by a sea knot that connects the attack group and the defense together.
Defense, incidentally, went on Saturday contingency derby tests. Already in the debut, Muslin had to look for a replacement for Asatiani, to whose periosteum Olimp unintentionally attached spikes. Yevseyev’s exit meant moving from the right flank to Spakhich’s defense center. He, in principle, did not fail at the new position. And during the break, the left flank was updated in defense. Fundamental Sennikov as a successor to the addicted Finigno symbolized, perhaps, a cardinal change of priorities.
After the intermission, there was another Lokomotiv on the field. Excluding risk and ardor, he did not resemble himself very much from the first half. And, probably, if he didn’t flinch in this other game either, he saved the winning digit, reproaches will sound deliberately. And yet Sychev’s scoring reflexes, and an amazing jerk to strike-ahead of the birthday of Izmailov, were too impressed. Who knows, had Loko stayed so long if he hadn’t won that day and louder? Well, if I just sang it. It’s a pity if you weren’t allowed to finish.
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Goal: Sychev, 20 (0: 1), Dudu, 37 (1: 1), Izmailov, 39 (1: 2)
CSKA : Akinfeev, Ignashevich, A. Berezutsky, V. Berezutsky, Aldonin (Wagner, 35), Rakhimich, Zhirkov, Krasich (Gusev, 66), Carvalho, Dudu, Olic
Lokomotiv : Polyakov, Spakhich, Ivanovich, Asatiani (Evseev, 10), Gurenko, Fininho (Sennikov, 46), Loskov, Bilyaletdinov, Izmailov, Traore (Zuagi, 82), Sychev
Warnings : Loskov, 15, Rakhimich, 16, Bilyaletdinov, 38, Carvalho, 44, Izmailov, 78, Ignashevich, 80, Sychev, 85
23 September. Dynamo, 2 p.m.
Judge: Matteo Simone Trefolone (Italy)
Sergey NOVIKOV