More than seven thousand spectators in Megasport, who preferred hockey to football – in Cherkizovo Spartak and Lokomotiv played in parallel for the Cup – saw eight goals, seven of which were scored by the army team. The hosts were not worthy of another miracle (derby victory over Dynamo and Magnitogorsk).
On the last day of the regular season – March 26, Sunday – the four-time USSR champion will save himself with two victories: a personal one at the VTB Arena over the blue and whites, and also for Vityaz over Minsk Dynamo, and in regular time . And it’s enough for Bison to take a point from Balashikha and calmly prepare for the playoff meeting with SKA.
– Come on! come on! she asked on the acting bench. the head coach of the red and white Aleksey Zavarukhin.
I don’t see anything wrong with this method. He was in the service of the famous coach Nikolai Karpov, who twice (1969, 1976) made Spartak champion (which is comparable to a feat).
But today was not a red and white day. With “Dynamo” and “Magnitogorsk” they scored in the minority, and now they scored twice in the majority. And the first of these two goals, as it seemed, broke the hosts.
The Spartacists managed to soak the tennis wheel in most of the efforts not of the leaders, but of Kukshtel, Starchenko, Sokolov …
The score 1:7 brought back memories of the derby of these rivals in Luzhniki seven years of freshness. The army team defeated the rojiblancos with the same score, and a couple of days later their fans were invited to the losing team, they said on the initiative of Gennady Timchenko. Among this group, a fan was seen … “Vityaz”, the protégé of the general manager of “Spartak” Alexei Zhamnov. The rojiblancos, who in September were led by an anonymous person (the last name has already been forgotten), did not make it to the playoffs.
Until Sunday, the Spartacists have plenty of time, enough to work on the mistakes and prepare for the final game of the regular season and a hypothetical meeting with the fans.
By the way, it is not worth destroying the Spartacists for defeat, even Znarok at the helm of Spartak did not escape a similar fate, losing to CSKA at the beginning of the 2019/20 season 3: 9. Then a hat-trick broke out. Kaprizov, who we are proud of in the NHL.
Sergei Fedorov’s team secured second place in the Western Conference, because their competitors lost points: Lokomotiv in Omsk lacked a 3:1 handicap, and Torpedo, after the defeat at CSKA Arena (3:8), lost in Nizhny Novgorod. Severstal with teeth, which does not recognize authorities.
An archive victory after a misfire at home in a match with an outsider from HC Sochi (1: 3) was won by Neftekhimik. “Neftekhimik” in overtime squeezed the amorphous “Magnitogorsk”, giving away points to everyone. Will the “wolves” really not be able to get into the playoffs “Tractor” and “Cupid”?
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Spartak – CSKA – 1:7, Avangard – Lokomotiv – 4:3 OT, Sibir – Barys – 4:2, Avtomobilist – Salavat Yulaev – 1:3, Neftekhimik – Metallurg – 4:3 OT, Torpedo – Severstal – 2:3 , Dinamo M – Vityaz – 4:1.
