Exiled Dzhanaev will be haunted by nightmares for a long time to come.
The 9th round of the RPL opened with a match with a rather intriguing sign. Last season, Sochi and Dynamo fought for silver to the last, and only in the last round did the southerners surpass the opponent. This time, Slavisa Jokanovic’s team seemed to be the favorite, which has not yet suffered a single defeat in the current championship draw.
From the very beginning, the open nature of the meeting was indicated. Already in the first half, the audience saw a lot of sharp moments at the gates of both teams. And the crown of forty-five minutes was the stupidest transfer of Soslan Dzhanaev, thanks to which Dynamo managed to close the gap in the score.
The Sochi goalkeeper naturally made himself a laughing stock!
Dynamo was considered the favorite, but the Sochi residents had their own plans. They started the match right off the bat – and already in the 6th minute they sent the ball into Anton Shunin’s goal. This was done by a person who is usually teased for low performance – Georgy Melkadze. The former Spartak player completed a chic multi-move with an accurate blow to the bottom corner. Melkadze scores for the third match in a row and finally begins to justify his resemblance to Gonzalo Higuain.
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Just a few minutes later, Sochi scored again – and again the central role in the episode belonged to Melkadze. The striker shot through himself, Shunin parried the blow, and Nikita Burmistrov was the first to finish, who just had to send the ball into an empty net. The players began to celebrate, but the referees did not count the goal – the position was offside.
It would seem that the starting onslaught after this should subside. However, Sochi continued to go forward and scored the third goal! This time everything was decided by Christian Noboa. By the 11th minute, Dynamo was burning 0:2 – and there were no noticeable prerequisites for any positive changes.
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During the half the game leveled off a little, and the “white-blue” even had some good approaches. Denis Makarov was the most active among the guests. The right winger constantly dispersed attacks with the help of his trademark dribbling, supplied his partners with sharp passes and tirelessly put pressure on the defense of Sochi. It was the latter that ultimately led to the fact that Dynamo managed to retaliate one goal.
It all started with a completely trivial situation: Sochi just played a free kick in their own half of the field. Defender Artyom Meshchaninov passed the ball back to Soslan Dzhanaev. He calmly accepted, but suddenly noticed that the restless Makarov was running at him. Here, for some reason, the experienced goalkeeper suddenly got scared and made a decision that was not at all obvious. Dzhanaev wanted to either beat Makarov on the backswing, or give it back to Meshchaninov. However, the goalkeeper did not have enough speed or self-confidence – and, alas, he got into a puddle. The ball hit Makarov’s leg, and bounced off it into the goal. It’s funny that just a few seconds before that, the commentator of the meeting, Mikhail Melamed, said: “Some kind of shake-up of Dynamo is not enough.” And here it is!
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Surely Dzhanaev will be haunted by nightmares in which he is being pressed by the Dynamo midfielder for a long time to come. However, in the future, the keeper will already know: there is no need to try to outwit the main trickster of the Premier League. Already Makarov knows all these feints with swings by heart!
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Head coach of Crystal Palace Oliver Glazner he confirmed that he will leave the team at the end of the season. The Austrian coach will not renew his contract, which expires in June.
Glazner took over at Palace in February 2024. In 2025, he led the team to their first major trophy, beating Manchester City in the FA Cup final. Later in August, Crystal Palace also won the FA Super Cup.
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Donetsk Shakhtar player Egor Nazarina commented on the draw in the Conference League match against Rijeka (0:0).
“We did not see the realization of the moments. There were moments that could have been scored, but unfortunately they were not accelerated by the blessings that they were. I respect you, we spent this match poorly, and the most important are the ones who moved on.”
This was our job, we wanted to complete it in the first century, and we died, so it’s good for you. If they had told us five months ago when the tournament started that we would be in the first week, I think we would have been in good shape straight away. Vikonali ce zavdanya – in ce nagolovnish.
What is the moral and moral aspect after six months of working so hard? Well, a little. Moving steadily while you are old, you know, it is not easy for you. But we won’t complain. We miss playing in the European cups, so there is nothing to complain about. We are happy that we suffer from, you might say, fatigue. When we are released immediately, we are excited and ready for training.
The first half of the season was difficult, but in the end it was positive. We completed our work at the Liza conferences – they passed, we are also in the lead with the championship – we share first place with however many points. I’ll say it again: if we had been told that five months ago, I respect that we would have been fit for those positions, as we did in both the European Cup and the Ukrainian Championship. I think we will continue to add more and in the other half of the season we will show even better results than the first.
I would like to thank the patients for their support in this difficult hour for us. This is the most important thing. Bless them with holy, healthy family well-being, and faith and belief in our victory, in the ZSU. They are the same – without them nothing would have happened. Once again: believe in our victory and have a peaceful sky above your head!
On Football.ua A video review of the Shakhtar – Rijeka match is available to watch.
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Head coach Noah Sandro Perkovic commented on his team’s defeat against Dynamo (0:2) in the sixth round of the main round of the Conference League.
Our mentor exclaimed in front of his players about the club’s historic achievements:
“First of all, I would like to say a word of thanks to our Gravians and greet the team. For the first time in history, Noa reached the play-offs of the European Cup tournament. This is a great achievement not only for the club, but also for Ukrainian football. We are further collapsing,” Perkovich said.
Speaking of the match itself, the coach welcomed Dynamo to victory and expressed the high level of respect for the opponent:
“The team looked very solid in the beginning, caused a number of unsafe moments, but could not open the door. I said before the match that Dynamo is a great club. In matches with such teams, many mistakes can be made. Today they punished us for this,” said the mentor.
Perkovich emphasized that his team was not surprised by the defeat of the Kiev club:
“Dynamo has not suffered at all. This is a very good team, which clearly plays in defense and has a wide variety of tactical plans. Perhaps we did not realize that the stench is so fragrant from the first days of the century and blessed for the decade and in attack,” the coach added.
He also famously said that Noah wasted no energy for a positive outcome:
“We attacked, pressed, tried to earn as much as possible. So we could have played more than ten times under the hour from the opponent’s overhead passes, but I won’t say we played badly. Dynamo just showed very good football today,” Perkovich summarized.
In the group stage of the Conference League, Noah scored all points in six games and took 19th place. This result allowed the Virmen club to reach the 1/16 finals of the LK.
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