Former defender of Ufa Yuri Zhuravlev, who now plays for Torpedo, told RB Sport that the team flew out of the RPL because they relaxed in the first play-off.

Last season of the Russian Championship, Ufa failed to defeat Orenburg in two play-offs for the right to play in the RPL WORLD and were relegated to MELBET First League. In the first game on the road, the Ufa team led the meeting with a score of 2:0, but in the end they ended up in a draw.

– Maybe there is a small financing factor in the problems of the club. But everything depended on us. We were unlucky: we conceded a goal in the 95th minute. Such a set of circumstances. Somewhere God punished us for the fact that we did not win the first match, but drew 2-2, leading by two goals during the meeting. Apparently, they relaxed then. I tried to forget about that moment,” said Zhuravlev.

On Sunday, Ufa lost to Akhmat with a score of 1:2 in the home match of the ¼ final of the Way of the Regions FONBET Cup of Russia. On the same day, Torpedo lost to Akron Togliatti 0:2 in the away match of the ¼ final of the Way of the Regions Cup of the country and was eliminated from the tournament.

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