The former head coach and sports director of Rotor Fedor Shcherbachenko praised the defeat of Spartak Moscow by Akron Togliatti, which led to the Red-Whites’ departure from the FONBET Cup of Russia.

On Wednesday, Spartak lost to Akron in the match of the second stage of the semi-finals of the FONBET Way of Regions of the Cup of Russia with a score of 1:2 and ended their performance in the tournament.

– The Spartacists played ugly in defense. They could not normally interrupt the riding passes, they also coped with approaches from the bottom with difficulty. Spartak let down the lack of fundamentality in their game. Of course, this defeat is a big image blow to Spartak, as well as to the prospects of Abaskal’s work, despite his long contract with the club.

Akron in this Cup of Russia has greatly damaged the reputation of the Russian Premier League. It happens that a lower league team knocks out one top division club from the Cup, two, but for as many as four … In the context of opposition to Akron on the field, I would put Lokomotiv in first place, Spartak in second, and third – “ Dynamo “and the fourth -” Torpedo “. Moreover, in three of these four matches, Akron scored into other people’s nets, and not just defended and waited for a penalty shootout. If someone abroad watched these matches, then, I think, according to the content of the game, he did not determine that teams from different divisions met. At the same time, Akron is still in the bottom half of the First League table, – Euro‑Futbol.Ru quotes Shcherbachenko.

Live broadcasts of MIR RPL and FONBET matches of the Russian Cup can be watched on Match TV and MATCH PREMIER channels, as well as matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.

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