Even before the start of the playoffs Fonbet of the KHL championship for some reason, many experts and fans called Spartak a team that has no cup character. However, in the quarter -final series, the staff of Alexei Zhamanov already put all the haters for the laughing stock.

So in the third match of the confrontation with Salavat Yulaev, the Moscow club won a difficult victory, despite the forced game of five defenders.

Salavatu Yulaeva cannot be removed

In the second match of the Spartak series, he issued an incredible Cambet, equalizing the score at the last second of the main time, and then pulled out the victory from Salavat Yulaev in overtime – 5: 4. The Ufa residents were too often mistaken in the defense and once again they created problems in the blue.

In addition, the team of Viktor Kozlov occupies the last line in reliability in the minority (55%) among all participants in the playoffs! With every second majority of the opponent, the fans of Salavat Yulaev begin to be seriously nervous.

It is interesting that after the defeat in the second match, Kozlov unexpectedly left the main goalkeeper Alexander Samonov in reserve. The specialist entrusted the place at the gate to 22-year-old Semen Vyazovaya, who in his career played in the playoffs only one match-on April 6 he spent 21 minutes and 45 seconds in the match against Siberia on the ice.

The hardest victory of Spartak

“Spartak” from the first shifts began to check the gaming tone of Vyazovaya and actively loaded it with work. Already in the 12th minute, the “red-white” managed to upset the goalkeeper of “Salavat Yulaev”. But in an episode with a goal scored more complaints about the defense of the guests: after Pavel of Pavel, the first on the puck was Ivan Morozov, who did not play for finishing, but gave out a brilliant pass on Nikolai Goldobin, and he calmly shot empty gates – 1: 0. Gorgeous combination from the owners!

After the break, the metropolitan club only continued to strengthen the advantage. At the beginning of the second period, the shares of the program found the defender Nikita Efremov, who had connected the defender, who caught the goalkeeper at the counter – 2: 0.

On this, Spartak did not stop and after a few shifts again forced the fans in the stands of Megasport to jump from their seats. Egor Zaitsev received a puck on someone else’s blue line, beautifully swayed his opponent and struck the far corner with a chic brush.

Hockey players “Spartak” / Photo: © Dmitry Chelyapin / Match TV

Even three missed goals did not break Salavat Yulaev. The guests woke up very on time and even before the break they reduced the lag to a minimum! At first, Sheldon Redpal rolled out at the speed of the front line and sewed the near corner of the gate of Artem Zagidulin. At the same time, two Spartak players at once tried to catch a throw of Redpal on themselves, but the striker of the guests demonstrated surgical accuracy.

And soon Alexander Black at speed entered the zone, fired heavily along the gate, and Yegor Suchkov correctly set up the club, and the puck was in the grid – 2: 3. Before the start of the third period, Salavat Yulaev had a small advantage-the “red and white” switched to the game of five defenders. One of the key hockey players Dmitry Vishnevsky received damage and went to the locker room.

The Spartak defense players lay down a tremendous load, but the hosts successfully coped with it. And in the 54th minute, Muscovites had the opportunity to make a serious application for victory: Scott Wilson grabbed to be removed for the game with a highly raised club.

However, the Ufa residents spent the time in the minority, preventing the opponent from realizing a numerical advantage. It seemed that in equal compositions of the degree of intrigue it would increase to the limit, when Kozlov changed the goalkeeper to a sixth field player.

That’s just the “red-white” as much as possible complicated the “Salavat Yulaev” task. 88 seconds before Sirena, Yegor Filin charged from under the defender, and Vyazova could not fix the puck, which Adam Ruzhichka used, who successfully played the finishing and put an end to the match-4: 2. Now Spartak first led in the series-2-1.

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