Russian specialist Rinat Bilyaletdinov called the credit of trust to Rubin’s head coach Leonid Slutsky from the club’s management the best he had ever seen.

On Wednesday, Rubin was knocked out of the FONBET Cup of Russia, losing to Volga Ulyanovsk (1:2) in the fourth round match of the Path of Regions.

– I do not give forecasts by appointment. This is an internal affair of the club. This should be decided by authorized people. The reasons for the dissatisfaction of the fans are understandable. The team should probably be at the top, but so far this is not happening. We need to figure out what’s wrong. You need to know the situation from the inside. Credit of trust? He was and is. As far as I can remember, this is the best credit of trust to the coach from the side of the team management, because in modern conditions, if the coach works for a full season, it’s already good. Look at Khimki, Fakel, Akhmat, where there have already been coach changes. Rubin has a chic credit of trust. For a coach, this is a godsend when a specialist is so trusted. So, probably, they believe that he will overcome difficulties. I do not observe anything catastrophic in the standings for Rubin, because a 6-point lead for such a distance is liquidated. It is worth Rubin to issue a series of two or three victories, all talk will disappear, as the team will return to the top three. Therefore, here the emotional background is not always correct. One can only applaud the restraint of the team’s leadership, which did not succumb to emotions,” Bilyaletdinov told Vprognoze.ru.

After 12 rounds, Rubin is in sixth place in the MELBET First League standings with 19 points. Slutsky has been working at Rubin since 2019, the team from Kazan left the MIR RPL at the end of last season.