Former Zenit footballer Konstantin Zyryanov in an interview with Match TV stated that the high level of resistance, which was provided by the Moscow Clubs team, ultimately prevented Petersburgers from protecting the Russian champion title.

At the end of the Zenit season, he became the silver medalist of the Russian championship. In the Fonbet Cup of Russia, the St. Petersburg team reached the final of the RPL path, where it lost to the Moscow CSKA. Prior to this, Semak’s team won gold medals of the championship six times in a row.

– If you recall how Zenit went up the season, then there were ups and falls. A great start, after which almost everyone has already recorded the “blue -white -blue” in the champions. They played really beautifully, plus they gave out a winning series at the start. Wendel and Glushenkov looked on the field like brothers who understand each other at a glance. In this sense, Glushenkov’s injury out of the blue in the game with Khimki happened very on time and changed a lot. The next segment was not too successful.

– However, then Zenit straightened the situation.

– Agree. Moreover, again, everyone thought that Zenit in the final autumn matches took 6 points at home with “wings of the Soviets” and “acron”, went to a winter pause with a margin, and in the spring – the champion. But in the end, these two meetings played a cruel joke with the team.

– Many believe that it was they who cost the “zenith” of the championship.

– You know, I have a different opinion. It seems to me that spring matches with the capital’s teams in Moscow were key, when Zenit could not beat Spartak (1: 2), Lokomotiv (1: 1) and Dynamo (1: 1). The victory in any of these meetings – and Zenit would become a champion. But Moscow teams, there was a feeling, fought with Petersburgers this season. And in the end, it was they who did not allow Zenit to become a champion, ”Zyryanov said“ Match TV ”.

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• “The spring matches of Zenit in Moscow were the key in the championship.” Interview by Zyryanov