Some fans buried Torpedo after the second round of the RPL. The Moscow team returned to the Russian football elite, having won gold in the FNL last season, but at the start of the new campaign, it proved to be worse than other newcomers. In the first two matches, the Avtozavodtsy conceded seven goals and landed safely on the last line of the standings.

But if it was difficult to oppose something to the current “Sochi” and “Dynamo” newcomers of the league, then in the match with “Wings of the Soviets” the team had every chance to finally prove itself.

The first point since 2015 in the Russian championship “Torpedo” brought a crazy goal of the Ossetian footballer. All according to the precepts of Ibrahimovic!

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After the failure at the start of the season, Torpedo went to Samara only to win. According to the results of the first two rounds, the capital’s team did not score a single goal on its own: Dynamo Muscovites lost dry (0:4), and in Sochi they soaked the score only thanks to Vanya Drkusic’s own goal (1:3). But if the defeats from the silver and bronze medalists of RPL-2021/22 could still forgive themselves, then in games with rivals like Wings, the players had to fight for points.

However, Samarans cannot be called direct competitors of Torpedo even after the personnel losses that the Volga residents suffered during the last two transfer windows. Krylia still claims a place in the middle of the table, so the team approached the home match in the status of a favorite.

However, there was no talk of any overwhelming advantage of the hosts in the first half of the meeting. The game initiative was behind the “Wings”, but the team did not really exacerbate the situation. But the Torpedo players took advantage of one of their few chances and opened the scoring in the 19th minute. But how!

The first “independent” goal of the Muscovites of the season was scored by 27-year-old David Karaev. The Ossetian striker responded perfectly to Artyom Samsonov’s flank pass, which was not the most convenient in terms of height. Forward in a jump adjusted to the ball and firmly hit it with the outside of the foot! The Wings defender Glenn Bale, who took care of the player, after this episode only shrugged his shoulders, looking at his partners: no one expected such a performance from Karaev! Moreover, David has never scored in the RPL in 9 years of his professional career …

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True, Torpedo still failed to keep the winning score. In the second half, Krylia increased and concretized the pressure, creating several serious threats to Muscovite goalkeeper Vitaly Botnari. With one of them, the defense of the car factory did not cope: Vladislav Shitov scored the return goal (1:1). However, for “Torpedo” and this result can be considered satisfactory. The team has finally started to score points in the RPL, the main thing now is not to stop. It was Karaev who decided the match for the Muscovites in the end.

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