“Zenith” defeated “Urals”. The Semak team begins to grow

The game ended in a landslide victory for the hosts with the score 4:0. Ivan Sergeev opened the scoring in the 8th minute, in the 30th minute Mateo Cassierra doubled the hosts’ advantage, in the 45th minute +1 Claudinho brought the score to a devastating score and scored Mateo Cassierra’s final score, scoring a brace in the 68th. minute.

Viktor Goncharenko’s team before the game were above their opponents and hoped to extend their successful start to the season. For Zenit, this is the 4th victory in 6 days.

“Ural” started the game with uncertainty, immediately leaned against the goal and conceded the first goal in the 8th minute. Claudinho made a soft pass to the far post, where Sergeev pushed the ball into the goal. In the 30th minute, the guests’ defense completely failed and allowed Cassierra to go on goal, where the Colombian eliminated Pomazun without any problems and rolled the ball into the goal.

At the end of the first half, “Ural” scored the third goal in his own net. Club goalkeeper Ilya Pomazun presented the ball to Claudinho, for which the Brazilian punished the opponent and kicked it from outside the penalty area.

It became clear that the Yekaterinburg club would not be able to turn the tide of the game in their favor in the second half. The Urals have never beaten the Zenith in the history of Russia. Of the 24 matches, 20 ended in defeat and 4 in a draw.

After the break, the domination of the “Zénith” continued. “Ural” again made a mistake in defense and Cassierra again beat Pomazun and rolled the ball into the goal.

At the end of the match, the guests could have the possibility of taking a penalty. The ball hit Sutormin’s hand, but the referee after the replay noticed that before that the guests had committed a foul.

“We played a good, high quality game, a good result. Today we looked pretty confident throughout the game, we created chances and converted them. I’m very happy for the team,” said Semak after winning the match.

“There are matches which are very useful to understand where we are going. If someone thinks that we are very unhappy with the match and the result, then no.

We will start from there and we will understand what to do. We only have three points, but now we have a lot to think about,” Urals coach Viktor Goncharenko commented on the defeat.

“Zenith”, after not the most successful debut, began to take shape and won three in a row. The club have already moved up to second place and are now just one point behind the leaders. “Urals” suffered their first defeat of the season. In five rounds, Yekaterinburgs have conceded just three goals and four in a single game against Zenit.

Initially, the form of St. Petersburg raised questions due to the most successful matches in the first rounds, and the Urals, on the contrary, were on the move, but the head-to-head between the teams showed the difference between the current champions of the country and the rest of the teams.

Yahya Gasanov, Athletistic