Between second and fifth place – 3 points.

Orenburg – Sochi

– The Orenburgers lose at least two other First League clubs, but more often lead games in their favor. Vladimir Sycheva serves as the spearhead of the attacks, but Lucas Vera has unexpectedly revealed himself in the role of a good forwarder.

– Sochi residents had a surprisingly tough September segment of the season. In the victory over Dynamo, the southerners lost to Krasnodar and Torpedo and played in a draw with Fakel. The team returned to the objective level – Sochi made a difference thanks to the coach, who instilled organization and clarity in the team. Perestroika is expected with the departure of Vladimir Fedotov.

Khimki – CSKA

– The “Torpedo” defeat is an important lesson for the “soldiers”. Zenit’s pursuit is good, but the quality mark needed for this is the ability to open any defense. Fedotov always learns from such defeats. Now there is no feeling that the rossoblùs will start an unsuccessful series, as happened with Berezutsky.

– Roman Teryushkov, a member of the supervisory board of Khimki, is satisfied with Spartak Gogniev: this is already an indicator that the mentor will work more calmly. Khimki have not won since the beginning of August and are unlikely to be able to stop this winning streak CSKA. But the subsequent meetings with Ural and Fakel will be decisive for the ranking.

Locomotive – Urals

– No end in sight for the Moscow crisis – chiefs continue to appoint foreign coaches. Zinnbauer’s assistant will now be Fadlu Davids South Africa.

– Loko stays afloat thanks to the first victories over Orenburg and Khimki. But the train did not leave, the victory over Krasnodar with the defeats of Spartak, Fakel, Akhmat and Pari NN was a defeat.

– Things are even worse for the Ural, even if the first victories in the new season have been won. Newcomers are not lost at the Premier League level, it remains to add to the completion phase. The “bumblebees” “Akhmat” could not beat: it is simply necessary to take advantage of the crisis in Lokomotiv.

Fakel – Torpedo

– A duel between two strangers. Neither “Fakel” nor “Torpedo” grabs the stars from the sky. The Voronezh team has a little more success – they scored 4 points more, but is in the common area. For both clubs, this meeting represents an opportunity to take a significant step forward.

– The defensive scheme of the game still brought results to the car factory. FROM CSKA I managed to do what we couldn’t do against Zenit and Rostov: score ourselves and not concede a goal. The only question left is whether the league and the fans need a bus team.

– Fakel without Oleg Vasilenko strengthens his position in the playoff zone and is very close to the exit from it – there is an advantage in head-to-head matches with Lokomotiv, so even with the same points, Voronezh will be able to move up to 12th place.

Zenit – Rostov

– If the Rostovites, after defeating Spartak, manage to beat Zenit in St. Petersburg, the season can end, it will not get better. Karpin’s team is on fire: not a single defeat in the official matches of the new season, second place in the Premier League and first in their group of the Russian Cup. The southerners have assembled an extremely combat-ready team and the current leaders have progressed.

– The Petersburgers failed in service, losing to Wings in the Cup – it is unclear when, in the absence of a busy schedule with Champions League will happen again. However, even now Zenit has a difficult period: after Dinamo in the Cup, it is necessary to play with Spartak on 29 September and, after 3 days, a match with Rostov.

Pari NN – Spartak

– The opportunity to catch your breath after the battles with Zenit, Rostov, Lokomotiv and Zenit again for Spartak is very welcome. You have to catch your breath, the red and white fell on the injuries of the leaders. Yes, you can try replacing Martins with Prutsev and try Promes as the number 10, they still need to play in such an arrangement. In combat potential, of course, they are losing.

– Nizhny Novgorod in the next rounds they secured themselves from the struggle for survival – there is a 4-point advantage over the teams from the junction area. The first defeat in a month (0: 2 by Orenburg) should remind the wards of Mikhail Galaktionov that they have before them a segment tense from the games with Zenit, Krasnodar, CSKA and “Wings” – will start with a duel against “Spartak”.

Akhmat – Dynamo

– The match is mainly interesting for Akhmat’s new trainer. Sergey Tashuev led only 2 clubs RPL for a season – it is not clear what to expect from such a date. Whether this will be a continuation of Talalaev’s ideas with an emphasis on pressure or something new is the main question for Grozny players. At least the team didn’t crash after the mentor left and beat the Ural.

– Norman settles in Dynamo, Fomin helps him. At the heart of the defense are 4 players to choose from and a Fernandez-Sazonov-Marichal trio, each of whom can start. The blues and whites are facing problems in normal mode, only the defeats of Sochi and Zenit spoil the overall impression.

“The wings of the Soviets” – “Krasnodar”

– The result is even more difficult for the Samarans than in the previous season. Glushenkov doesn’t realize he’s replacing Sarveli. Pinyaev in the position of Zinkovsky only in the future will he become the same important player in attack. Bosses should be patient with one of the youngest teams in the league. A meeting with the young Krasnodar himself will be extremely interesting.

– Spertsyan has updated their performance record – and after all, only a third of the championship has passed. Now Eduard is dragging Krasnodar, plus opened Olakunle Olusegun. So much so that John Cordoba appears more often on the pitch. Together with experts Alexei Ionov, Cayo and Christian Ramirez, the southerners gain a strong fusion of talent and experience. “Bulls” quickly caught up CSKA, beating Khimki after losing in a face-to-face match. The race to the top 3 continues for Krasnodar.