Zenit’s fifth consecutive championship in the WORLD RPL, which the team will be able to deliver in the next match with “Spartacus “, is certainly not a problem of the Saint Petersburg club, the general director of Dom.RF, the former president of the Russian Football Union and Zenit, told . Vitaly Mutko .
Zenit leads the WORLD RPL standings with 61 points. If the Bleus-Blancs-Bleus beat Spartak in the 26th round on Sunday, and Rostov fails to beat Fakel the day before, Sergei Semak’s team will become Russian champions for the fifth consecutive time.
– Do you expect the Zenit championship in the match with Spartak?
– It’s hard to say, football is still an unpredictable thing. You saw, in Italy the whole city was ready to celebrate Napoli’s championship in a home game with not the strongest Salernitana, but they took it, conceded in the end and tied. Everyone has their own goals, so there is no guarantee that the championship will be delivered this weekend. But, of course, it all depends on whether Zenit should win, in terms of class they are superior to Spartak. I think he will still win and win the championship at home in front of his fans.
– For Zenit, it will be the fifth championship in a row. Is this the problem with our football?
– For Zenit fans, for residents of St. Petersburg and for the management of the club and Gazprom, this is definitely not a problem. They set goals and achieve them. Zenit always wanted to be a European level club and have a good result in the league. So it’s not their problem.
Of course, from the perspective of the evolution of the sport, it’s more interesting when the champion is constantly changing, like in the same NHL, where current Stanley Cup owner Colorado crashes in the first round. They built it that way. And, perhaps, to a certain extent, from the point of view of the development of sport, there may be problems. But this 100% should not bother Zenith.
There is a powerful club, Lokomotiv, with its own base, why can’t it evolve in the same way? Maybe because the personnel decisions weren’t the same. There is Dynamo with a solid economic base, Spartak. You can name 3-4 other clubs that can easily fight but for some reason they don’t,” Mutko told a correspondent on the sidelines of the Caucasian Investment Exhibition.
The match of the 26th day of the Russian Championship between Zenit and Spartak will take place on Sunday in Saint Petersburg, the starting whistle will sound at 6:00 p.m.
Watch live broadcasts of WORLD RPL matches on and MATCH PREMIER channels, as well as matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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