The match, whose status until the whistle to the beginning ranged between the “friendly” and “finale of the prestigious tournament”, in fact turned out to be a full-fledged round of the most emotional Russian confrontation of recent years. Yesterday's game formally opened the scoring for face-to-face meetings between CSKA and Spartak in the upcoming season, but the long history of their relationship did not notice any winter break.
CSKA and Spartak are like Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich: neighbors forced to live side by side, sometimes doomed to comparison even against their will. And when they meet face to face, a special background of the confrontation can be seen in any game episode. Is it by chance that two of the fastest legionnaires of both teams meet in a flank duel - Krasic and Quincy? Why is Titov talking with Rakhimich all the time? Even the phrase “Mozart hit Wagner’s legs”, you see, bears some additional meaning.
However, distracting from the metaphysics of derby, it is worth recognizing that CSKA was better prepared for the match. Valery Gazzayev didn’t need to change anything in the team’s game - except to shuffle the flanks and run in the rookie Ramon. The temporary absence of Daniel Carvalho could only mislead the rivals of the army. The loss did not affect the team’s game, at least in matches with rivals such as Israelis and Ukrainians.
Not that Vladimir Fedotov - he had to pretty much smash his head. He patched the problematic positions of the goalkeeper, the central defender, the missing midfielder and the second striker quite successfully, but in the final match, in an amazing (and for some, logical) way, it turned out that all the transformations burst at the seam. In the Czech pair of central defenders Kovacs - Jiranek, the weakest link unexpectedly turned out to be Martin, who seems to be more familiar with this position. Wagner Love and Jo were beaten three times from under the Czech, but Khomich helped out. For the time being, when Jiranek stopped to look at the fallen Shishkin, Dudu gasped from his sock past the taken aback goalkeeper. And trying to prevent the second goal of the army, the Czechs piled a pile of their bodies in front of Ramon, but the golden-booty CSKA rookie scored his first.
The class of CSKA “Spartak” opposed an incredible desire. When Stranzl regularly ran on the attack, Bystrov tried to break through himself, and the stands chanted “Quin si! Quin-si! "? The incredible excitement of the red-and-white warmed Pavlyuchenko, goals and the game of which you can’t prescribe luck in the department of luck - this is skill. The most beautiful moment of the match was formed precisely from his blow after the stroke of two and the dodgy jump of Akinfeev into the near corner. However, “Spartak” is still inferior in terms of joint mastery, and it was necessary to scratch a draw with the help of luck. Fortunately, the body part placed under the ball turned out to be within the rules.
In extra time, luck for some reason decided to leave the Blumfeld Stadium. After Titov struck the crossbar, it became clear that everything would be decided not in a penalty shootout, but after someone else's mistake. There were just three contenders for failure. At first, Torbinsky, who was very cool, by the way, who entered the game, for some reason equated his opponents' legs with a billboard attacked by him after a miss on Akinfeev's goal. And in the last minute, Khomich made the same predicted mistake at the exit, and Jiranek could not stop Jo from closing another completely Brazilian goal protocol of CSKA.
Frankly, we were lucky. Coincided - and the match of the most important rivals came to the finals of the tournament with a good prize pool. Hence the game, and passion, and beauty. And the guarantee that continuation follows.
CSKA - SPARTAK - 3: 2 (0: 0)
Goals: 1: 0 - Dudu (52), 1: 1 - Pavlyuchenko (58), 2: 1 - Ramon (68), 2: 2 - Pavlyuchenko (87), 3: 2 - Jo (120).
CSKA: Akinfeev, Ignashevich (k) (Ivan Taranov, 102), A. Berezutsky, V. Berezutsky, Aldonin (Ramon, 57), Rakhimich, Dudu, Krasic, Zhirkov, Wagner Love (Shemeras, 76), Jo.
SPARTAK: Khomich, Shishkin, Jiranek, Strantzl, Kovacs, Kovalchuk, Mozart (Sabitov, 78), Bystrov (Torbinsky, 78), Titov (k), Quincy, Pavlyuchenko.
Warnings: Dudu (50), Pavlyuchenko (103), Torbinsky (113).
Removal: Torbinsky (116, second housing estate).