Athletistic/Football. On March 10, the matches of the 20th round of the RPL continued. In Luzhniki, Spartak welcomed Fakel. Muscovites lost at home with a score of 0:2. It is worth noting that “Fakel” for the first time beat “Spartak” twice during one season in the Russian Championship and also won against the red and white team on the road for the first time.
In the 13th round of the current RPL season, Fakel also defeated Spartak at home with a score of 2:0. Then, forwards Evgeny Markov and Maxim Maximov stood out.
After this failure, Spartak fell to 6th place in the standings, gaining 31 points in 20 matches. “Fakel” is in 11th position with 25 points.
After the final whistle, commentator Vasily Outkin criticized the Muscovites’ play on social networks.
Spartak failed. A week ago, we could say that the reds and whites had held their ground in St. Petersburg and had chosen a strategy. And now “Spartak” is a team that has been preparing for two months and cannot score either against its main opponent away, or against its underdog at home,” Utkin wrote.
Former Zenit footballer Vladislav Radimov believes that Spartak should part with their coach. According to him, Guillermo Abascal will not benefit the reds and whites.
“Release Abaskal! The Spaniard has done everything since the fall to return home. Make a voluntary decision. Spartak is not ready for the second part of the season. Constant conflicts. Let him go, it will be better. There is nothing left to catch this season,” Radimov wrote on your Telegram channel.
And Guillermo Abascal? After the match, the question of resignation arose. But the Spaniard avoided a direct response.
“Does Spartak play better without me? Ask your wife if she is happier without you,” the coach replied to journalists.
After a long break, Spartak captain Georgy Dzhikia entered the field. Previously, the press wrote that the footballer had a conflict with the coach. But Abaskal, despite Fakel’s defeat, congratulated Dzhikia after the match.
“He did what he was asked to do. Play wider, use Victor Moses – everything was done as expected. Dzhikia showed that the team is important to him, that he is ready to put it to good use every minute,” noted the Spaniard. .
After the match, the situation with Quincy Promes was also discussed. The striker has still not returned from the UAE and is currently on the sidelines. The media wrote that the footballer was arrested at the border control of Dubai airport. He is now awaiting trial.
Abascal once again remained silent, emphasizing that the questions about Promes were not for him.
“I don’t comment on the Promise, it’s not a question for me now,” said the red and white coach.
Before the break for the matches of the national team, Spartak will play one more match – it will be the second leg of the 1/4 finals of the RPL course of the Russian Cup with Orenburg. In the first meeting, the red and white lost 0:1. If Spartak does not advance further, there is a good chance that the management of the Moscow club will still listen to Radimov’s wish to send Abaskal home.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
Source: Sport
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