And again on September 3.
The weekend will be hot! “Spartak” will meet their most important rival, “Krasnodar” and “Sochi” will organize a southern derby and “Akhmat” will try to “strangle” Lokomotiv with pressure. Round 8 is the first checkpoint in the distribution of seats in the Russian league.
Orenburg – Khimki
– The confusion continues in the suburban club. Was second coach fired in less than a month. Management has no one to blame but itself for the recession – there is no need to break what works. Now Spartak Gogniev has become a new mentor, taking Alania to the quarter-finals of the Russian Cup.
– “Orenburg” is trying to settle in the Premier League, the victories over “Ural” and “Torpedo” allow not to go into the play-off area. Otherwise, the team had a rather difficult phase of the season – played against Spartak, Rostov, Krasnodar. Lokomotiv also unexpectedly revived Ivan Ignatiev, who scored a hat-trick.
– There is no feeling that Khimki will abruptly stop the fall. I rather believe Orenburg will take the points and remain in 10-12th place.
“Equal NN” – “Torch”
– A duel between two teams that you can’t help but sympathize with. Those and others alike squeeze the most out of their players, but so far they are floundering in the common area.
– “Pari NN” in a suspicious way often upsets Moscow clubs and for this reason does not sink to the bottom. The team has a three-game winning streak and one victory over Lokomotiv.
– The Voronezh team cannot cope with the pressures of the Premier League and have not yet won in the new season. At the same time, Oleg Vasilenko’s wards tend to play aggressively and create chances at the doors of others. On paper, Nizhny Novgorod is the opponent you can score points with again.
Krasnodar – Sochi
– The Bulls have suffered a defeat this season and are confident on the fourth line of the league. Match with Sochi and meeting with CSKA next week will greatly influence the place of the southerners in the national championship.
– Sochi make mistakes more often, even if in general the change of manager did not affect the results much. Alexander Tochilin’s wards are good at pressing and positional attack: they even pressed Spartak in the first half, taking away the center of the field from Akhmat.
– In the Cup of Russia, the residents of Sochi ran into the Urals, which ultimately won the first victory of the season. Garanin’s team are obviously heading to Krasnodar with the intention of rehabilitating themselves for an unsuccessful match.
Dynamo – Urals
– Viktor Gancharenko’s wards showed their teeth in the Russian Cup group and beat Sochi. This can be a good start to advancement in the tournament, but in addition to this, you need at least from the direct relegation zone RPL go out. The calendar doesn’t get any easier: Torpedo will be followed by a meeting with CSKA“Akhmat” and “Locomotive”.
– The “white-blue” broke transfer of Arsen Zakharyan to Chelsea. A hard blow for the 19-year-old talent, who was probably already thinking about London. This is the first proof of Arsen’s mentality. It is good that this weekend you will not have to play with a main opponent, there will be time to collect your thoughts.
– The bianconeri must not relax: it was in Moscow last spring that the Bumblebees beat Dynamo.
“Wings of the Soviets” – CSKA
– Samarans started the second season in RPL Better than the first. So the departments of Igor Osinkin gave a good segment only in October-November. CSKA – a serious opponent with a systematic coach, the “soldiers” are unlikely to give much space to the “Wings”, it will be difficult to achieve a result.
– Fedotov stumbled with CSKA only once – and not even in a match with Zenit (the rossoblù have imposed a fight anyway), but in a duel with Pari NN (2: 2). Muscovites quickly adopt the coach’s ideas, there is support with transfers. It remains that the new legionaries adapt and show a high level.
Lokomotiv – Akhmat
– Josef Zinnbauer’s team has stumbled again when it should come out of the crisis. Nizhny Novgorod inflicted a defeat on the “railway workers” and first they played a draw with the Muscovites. To get close to the top 5, Lokomotiv must not lose any points this weekend.
– Two consecutive league defeats are a trend Akhmat should not pursue under any circumstances. FROM CSKA Grozny fell after the first missed ball, with the “Wings” missing the slightest advantage and failing to save the draw. Lokomotiv does not seem invincible, Andrey Talalaev’s men should activate aggressive pressures and charge the wings. Bogosavats and Todorovic are capable of it.
Spartak – Zenith
– The brightest game of the tour. The victory of “Zenith” is suggested: the St. Petersburg team is too strong and well played. But I want to believe in the unexpected: the Muscovites show a brilliant football at the start, the leaders got in shape. First, the longer Zenith is not the best for intrigue.
– Spartak is in second place and is only 1 point from Zenit. True, even if they win, the red and white will have to maintain their leadership position in the next rounds (Rostov, Lokomotiv).
– It is not easier for Blue-White-Blue, after Orenburg – a trip with Dinamo and a meeting with Rostov. However, Zenit have the necessary safety margin to reduce even difficult matches to victory.
Torpedo – Rostov
– Perhaps the leaders of “Avtozavodtsev” should have relied on a more experienced coach and not appoint a person from the club system. There is Yuran, Gogniev was free – there were options. There are no prerequisites for the “Torpedo” jump in the table. In addition, Rostov is in excellent shape.
– Valery Karpin’s team is not far behind the top three of the championship, even if only 7 rounds have passed. At least one team (Spartak or Zenit) will fail over the weekend and the southerners can take advantage of it. In the near future, the Rostovites will meet both Muscovites and St. Petersburg – there will be a chance to consolidate their success.
