Football
Rubin suffered the first defeat in the new season of the First League
Leonid Slutsky / Photo: © FC Rubin
Rubin Kazan lost to Yenisei Krasnoyarsk in the away match of the second round of the MELBET First League.
The meeting ended with the score 3:2. Evgeny Voronin, Nikita Glushkov and Vyacheslav Bardybakhin scored goals for the winners, Soltmurad Bakaev and Dmitry Kabutov scored for Kazan. Bardybakhin received a red card in stoppage time for the second half.
Rubin, which at the end of last season flew out of the RPL, beat Motherland (2: 0) in the first round of the First League. On August 1, the team of Leonid Slutsky will play with Ufa, which also left the top division of Russian football.
MELBET First League. 2nd round
Enisey (Krasnoyarsk) – Rubin (Kazan) – 3:2 (2:1)
Goals: Bardybakhin, 16. Glushkov, 27. Voronin, 66. – Bakaev, 32. Kabutov, 55.
Removal: Bardybakhin, 90 (“Yenisei”)
Source: Sportbox
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