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The likelihood of conflict in a team built on competition always exists. The rotation of the composition is determined by exactly the same reason. Therefore, the post-match statement by Anatoly Byshovets, explaining the absence of captain Loko on the field with banal coaching combinatorics, is not worth a detailed discussion. If the whole truth about the conversation between the player and the coach comes up, then it will no longer be relevant to this particular match. With or without a leader, the team yielded results - learn, Peter!
However, you should not even try to state the cause of the Loko victory as a set game that was not affected by the absence of a leader. The Byshovets team, even picking up speed in the second half of the match with Moscow, creaked frantically around the corners. Demonstrating good speed and team movement, players hardly created really dangerous moments, but did not realize rare exceptions. But this time, the understandable, but not debugged desire of Loko to the opponent’s goal gave a result. And that's why.
Ivanovich played perfectly on the right flank of the hosts, creating sharpness in the attack and clearing everything on the defensive - so right-wing midfielder Samedov unwittingly shifted to the center. And Bilyaletdinov, trying to compensate for the lack of a playmaker and realize his creative abilities, often appeared in the center. Kochish, who formally played in Loskov’s position, was also there. Almost all the dangerous moments came from this zone: the doubles slalom Bilyaletdinov and Kochish, Samadov’s strike with goal scoring by Sychev, and the third goal - all from the same place.
Lokomotiv, who had fallen into the center track, had to withstand the dual center of Spartak in the person of Rebko and Mozart. However, the first in an offensive outburst did not always have time to return, and Mozart’s slowness against Loko’s command speed turned into simply helplessness. It all started well. Spartak was going to beat the hosts with just the breadth of the attack - not without reason the first dangerous moments were created by the extreme midfielders Torbinsky and Dineev. Vladimir Fedotov recently called them “almost forwards”, and now the costs of this role have played against the red and white. The extreme midfielders just couldn't help soften the blow of Lokomotiv's fist - both, as if on purpose, were weak in selection.
The mistakes of the Russian national team player Shishkin also came as a surprise. The first goal was the result of an unsuccessful pass after an out-of-season draw in their own half. In another dangerous moment, Pletikos was saved, but the fire in the penalty area was the result of the hasty removal of Shishkin into Sychev’s back. The second goal from the standard is a mistake of the whole defense; to Scot O'Connor such clean sheds that daily bread. In the second half, Roman corrected the game and hit the crossbar from the penalty area, however, the panic that he planted in the Spartak penalty area could have ended with the fourth goal - but Samedov, who was involved in the majority of Loko's attack attacks, forgiven the red-white from the double.
The result, obtained by the Byshovets team, still does not guarantee the quality of the game - even a steam engine that picks up speed travels only to the nearest semaphore. 3-0 - a rebuke primarily to Fedotov, who failed to prepare his players for a possible development of events. Probably no one expected such agility from Lokomotiv. But the first person to look around to find an object that should be put on the rails was Fedotov. He did not - and his team moved.
LOCOMOTIVE - SPARTAK - 3: 0 (3: 0)
Goals: 1: 0 - Sychev (28), 2: 0 - O'Connor (42), 3: 0 - Bilyaletdinov (45).
LOCOMOTIVE : Yakupovich, Rodolfo, Spakhich (Sennikov, 90 + 2), Ivanovich, Efimov, Samedov (Kontsedalov, 70), Gurenko, Bilyaletdinov, Kochish, Sychev, Traore (O'Connor, 30).
SPARTAK : Pletikosa, Shishkin, Jiranek, Kovacs, Shoave, Mozart (Zheder, 46), Rebko (Dzyuba, 46), Dineev, Torbinsky (Bystrov, 66), Titov, Bazhenov.
Warnings : Shoave (41), Yakupovich (82).
May 2 "Locomotive". 7 p.m.
Judge : Alexey Nikolaev (Moscow).