Opponents who prefer to keep the ball down could not combine the field of the Fisht Stadium. Players of the Russian national team complained about the quality of the grass at the 2018 World Cup at home. Now it looked as if the field had been plowed up and down by moles. During the break, the hosts’ defender Sergei Terekhov admitted that the pitch is full of sand. And this is in the Black Sea resort town!
The army team, under the yoke of personnel problems, is forced to throw the young Yegor Noskov into battle. He replaced the disqualified Ivan Oblyakov (two yellow cards in the Dinamo derby) and took charge of the left curb. In the first part he did little. He once threw a quick Cyril Zaika behind him. And in the attack he did not know how to finish off the penalty area with precision, constipating a promising attack.
The relatively calm course of the match was disturbed by a visit to the cinema by referee Vladislav Bezborodov. In the penalty area of the army team, Vladislav Sarveli, in the midst of a commotion, overtook defender Willian Rosu, managed to push the ball forward with his right foot, hit the Brazilian on the shin and collapsed on the grass in pain. . After a visit to the monitor, the referee did not change the decision: dropped ball.
At the end of the half, interesting moments began to be born one after another. First, the arm close to the body of Christian Noboa found the ball after a cross from Roshi. Jesus Medina volunteered to take a dangerous free kick, but from the moment Eduard Spertsyan brilliantly scored past Akinfeev in Krasnodar, the Paraguayan sent the ball into the wall.
Already in the discount, the rivals exchanged strong attacks. Jorge Carrascal, little known for his scrupulousness in defense, organized a free kick that almost cost his team a goal. Terekhov responded to Noboa’s smooth vertical canopy and sent the ball home with his knee – Akinfeev flashed with an instant reaction.
The guests responded with two dangerous blows from Carrascal himself. First, the Colombian forced Soslan Dzhanaev into the game (the goalkeeper parried the ball) and immediately shot over the goal from Fedor Chalov’s pass.
The army team started the second half more actively. The debutant Noskov, who broke into the penalty area from the left, was supposed to make a cross or at least get into the goal, but he mediocrely passed in the direction of travel.
In the 67th minute, the guests opened the scoring: Moizes got a rebound from Dzhanaev. But in the VAR room, the goal was canceled due to a microscopic offside. So the joy of the army was abruptly replaced by disappointment.
Regretfully, Brazil’s central defenders Moises and Rocha missed replacement Luka Djordjevic. Artur Yusupov, a Swede, sliced the ball behind the defenders from the right flank, and the Montenegrin did not spare Akinfeev.
And eight minutes later, Djordjevic grabbed a rebound off Roshi’s leg off Nikita Burmistrov’s cross and fired from point-blank range on target. 2:0. The true joker of Kurban Berdyev, who played his debut match at the head of Sochi.
Vladimir Fedotov’s wards, who beat the southerners three times before the winter break (twice in the Russian Cup), ended up on the shield.
STATISTICS
FC Sochi – CSKA – 2:0 (0:0). March 5th. Sochi. “Fish”.
Referee: Bezborodov (Saint Petersburg). VAR: Levnikov (Saint Petersburg).
Goals: 1:0 Djordjevic (72), 2:0 Djordjevic (78).
CSKA: Akinfeev-k; Gayich, Nababkin (Mukhin, 81), Rocha, Moises, Noskov, Kuchaev (Zdelar, 71), Mendez, Medina (Ermakov, 81), Carrascal (Zabolotny, 81), Chalov.
Sochi: Dzhanaev-k; Meshchaninov, Drkushich, Terekhov, Makarchuk, Zaika (Margasov, 88), Yusupov, Noboa, Tsalagov, Sarveli (Burmistrov, 66), Melkadze (Dzhordzhevich, 71).
Warnings: Sarveli (10), Carrascal (63), Melkadze (66), Noskov (90+1).
