Athletistic/Football. Saturday November 4 began the 14th day of the Russian Football Championship. One of the matches took place in Kaliningrad. Baltika hosted Zenit. The teams met in the RPL for the first time in history. At the same time, this season the teams played two confrontations in the Russian Cup. Zenit, which recently became the hegemon of Russian football, continued to fight for first place, won by Krasnodar in the first rounds of this season. Baltika, as a newcomer to the Premier League, tried to climb up the table and get out of the relegation zone.
The first half brought no goals scored. But in the next 45 seconds, Zenit still managed to take the lead. Ivan Sergeev scored a goal in the 63rd minute. Douglas Santos charged him into the penalty area, Latyshonok played with his fists on the way out, but parried it on Vendel’s foot, the Brazilian shot strongly into the goal line, from where Sergeev used his heel to send the ball into the opposing net.
In the 77th minute, Mateo Cassierra doubled the lead for Bleu-Blanc-Bleu. He crossed the ball from the left flank, the ball bounced to Claudinho, who sent it to the goal line from the front line with a scoop, from where Cassierra directed it to Borisko.
So, Zenit won with a score of 2:0. The St. Petersburg club scored 29 points and moved to first place in the RPL. “Baltika” with 11 points occupies the penultimate 15th place.
Zenit fans commented on this result. They left their comments in the official blue-white-blue community on VKontakte.
Lyosha Emelianov:
– Returned to their rightful place!
Vasily Makhviladze:
– Calm, beautiful, classy, adapted to the condition of the lawn and the general playing situation…
Mikhail Kareets:
– With victory!!! everything is magnificent! Isidore is not necessary… otherwise magnificent!!! Keep it up, well done!
Lev Nevsky:
– Congratulations to all the supporters, today was a difficult away match, but we did it! “Zenith” regains the lead in the championship!
Artem Petrov:
– I liked that they finally started playing calmly in defense, although the passes with Kerzh were annoying. Happy victory to all. Wendell is the best.
Yaroslav Piatykh, Athletistic
Source: Sport
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