Athletistic/Football. In the 13th round of the RPL, CSKA won at home against Krasnodar. The hosts beat their opponent with a score of 1:0.
In the 41st minute, Abbosbek Faizullaev on the left flank left Sergei Volkov and rolled into the penalty area to Fedor Chalov, who beat Junior Alonso with his first touch and sent the ball into the highest corner of the goal from Matvey Safonov with his second.
“We haven’t had enough wins in this series. Today it happened. Many thanks to the guys for not getting carried away and showing good football against the championship leader. It’s worth a lot. The only thing is we can’t stop there. .
Fairly confident first half. There just wasn’t enough reasonable action in the closing stages – we were a bit rushed. But we had chances and we converted one. At the start of the second half we defended well, in one of the attacks we could have increased the score, but we have to give credit to the goalkeeper. The opponent did everything possible to avoid defeat. Somehow we were lucky. We lacked composure in our actions, when we could have gone out and increased the advantage,” said CSKA coach Vladimir Fedotov.
“Almost all the players were in front, in defense we went one-on-one. We had a lot of chances – we could have scored three or four goals. We came here not to draw. This wasn’t our plan. We came here to win” Remember. We must also remember that the opponent has good players and a good coach. Our goal was to put pressure on ourselves.
After the match against Baltika they told me that Krasnodar used to play nice football, but now that’s not the case, that’s a problem. Now we are in first position and other people are trying to find a problem with us. The position is there, the result is there, great football. Krasnodar has problems, but we must try not to show them to the enemy. The most difficult thing in football is creating a working atmosphere. Before that, I worked for a club that was fighting for the championship. What we created with the guys deserves respect, but we need support.
When we started this season, no one was asking us to occupy this high position, first place. But our players believed and we worked. As a result, we are here. We lost five points in two games. This is the period now, through 18 games and that season included, where we haven’t lost much. We didn’t deserve to lose today, but that’s football. You can’t win every time. There is a better team that a lot of money is being spent on. Money decides a lot in football. This somehow affects the position in the table. If you look at how much money we spent in June and where we are in the table and compare with other teams, it’s all obvious. But I congratulate my players, without them this would not have happened,” said Krasnodar head coach Vladimir Ivich.
“We are very happy. A very important match, an important victory. We are preparing for the next match. Emotionally, did CSKA feel like winning a major final? Well, no. It’s just that Krasnodar is a very good team, they “We are in first place. Today we showed that we have character. I think this is the most important thing,” said CSKA striker Fedor Chalov.
“Chalov, who scored and brought victory, was the best today. In what way did CSKA surpass Krasnodar today? I think in team spirit. We played until at the end to please the supporters. We managed to do that.
How difficult was the ending? The last minutes are always difficult, the opponent creates dangerous moments, but well done to everyone, they gave everything. We play to win in every match, today we beat the leader, that gives us confidence. We study the strengths and weaknesses of each opponent, we studied Krasnodar well, it helped us,” said CSKA midfielder Abbosbek Faizullaev.
“CSKA approached the match without unnecessary frills, using all their knowledge. However, the one who unnecessarily complicated the situation was Krasnodar. After all, they entered the field with three central defenders, and in the second half there also had serious changes. Constant replacements, changes in tactics, etc. – all this greatly affected Krasnodar, it seems to me.
In this case, it seems to me that Ivic had, above all, the desire not to lose,” Russian coach Alexander Grigoryan emphasized.
Currently, after 13 matches played in the RPL, CSKA is in fifth place with 21 points. Krasnodar remains leader of the championship with 28 points.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
Source: Sport
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