Goalkeeper “Dynamo” Igor Leshchuk in an interview with he said that some players of the team were convinced that in the semi-final of the Russian RPL FONBET Football Cup the team would meet Rostov and not CSKA.
The draw for this stage took place on Saturday, Dynamo will play CSKA, in the other pair Rostov will meet Zenit St. Petersburg. The matches will take place in mid-March.
— We arrived at CSKA in the Russian Cup. Is it convenient not to have to travel?
— We already discussed it as a team before, and several guys told me that the table was determined without a draw and that we were playing against Rostov. On some sites, it was actually displayed that we arrived at the winner of the Spartak – Rostov pair.
When they said in the team chat that we were playing against CSKA, at first I didn’t understand what kind of match it was. I was sure that we would play against the Rostovites in the Cup.
CSKA in the draw is a plus. You won’t have to travel anywhere (from Moscow). We will gather a lot of fans at the home match. Well, from a purely footballing point of view it will be an interesting match, CSKA is showing good football. The stronger the opponent, the better, ”Leshchuk said in an interview with .
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