FC Krasnodar – PFC CSKA (
Goals: Ari, 4 (Mamayev, 1:0), Ari, 6 (Joãozinho, 2:0), Eremenko, 13 (Fernandes, 2:1).
FC Krasnodar: Dykan, Jędrzejczyk, Granqvist, Sigurðsson, Petrov, Gazinskiy, Akhmedov (Izmailov, 20), Pereyra, Mamayev (Laborde, 67), Joãozinho, Ari (Wánderson, 81).
PFC CSKA (
Yellow cards: Izmailov, 68 (foul play), Laborde, 69 (foul play), Sigurðsson, 89 (attack breakdown).
Referees: Lapochkin, Kudryavtsev, Vereteshkin (all
22 November.
This fixture was designated the MD 14 principal clash by Liga TV, the broadcaster of the Russian Football Championship, to highlight the fact that the teams were fighting for quite a solid 2nd position in the league table. Exactly that would be given to a winner, and in case of a tie both teams at once might have dropped below the first three teams in the ladder.
Krasnodar team, save for Bystrov who had been injured for quite a while, lacked Martynovich on the match sheet; the latter sustained an injury playing for his national team and the decision for him to stay off the roll was made by the team physicians literally a few hours before the kick-off. Armeitsy, on their part, found missing Natkho, as the Israeli player was also injured in the European clashes of the national teams. As for Roman Eremenko whose passport had been stolen recently in
The home team made an aggressive start, and as early as on the 2nd minute the Moscow players received a first dangerous moment next to their goal; after a ball served by Joãozinho from the left Ari won the position and tried to shoot into the far corner of Akinfeev’s domain, but missed. However, this miss merely stirred the Brazilian centre forward and his partners up. The black-greens kept attacking and by the 6th minute they made their formidable opponents start the game anew from the centre of the pitch twice!
At first it was Mamayev who made a soft throw into the centre of the box, and the ball, as is if controlled remotely, flew over Vasili Berezutski’s head and arrived directly to Ari, who chested it and leaving his partner Akhmedov behind hammered it into the net away from the keeper who was just starting a fall. In less than two minutes Joãozinho with a pass from the depth saw the same Ari to a rendezvous with lonely Ignashevich; No. 9 of FC Krasnodar outplayed the
Unfortunately, having obtained such a considerate handicap easily and quickly the
The conceded goal roused the Bulls, and just a few minutes later they barely missed scoring once more. Pereyra playing a wall pass with Ari burst into the away penalty area along the left inside position, handled the ball skillfully with his heel virtually without seeing it and made a low shot; PFC CSKA was saved by Akinfeev who managed to make a dive in time.
As early as on the 20th minute FC Krasnodar boss Oleg Kononov was forced to make the first sub as Akhmedov started limping, so his place on the pitch was taken by Izmailov. Marat immediately entered the game, and on the 24th minute the black-greens launched one more sweeping attack which ended with a quality shot on the run by Mamayev, but this time the ball missed its target. 3 minutes later Joãozinho skillfully scored the third goal into Akinfeev’s net, but the scoreboard’s digits did not change as a heartbeat before Kudryavtsev the assistant ref observed FC Krasnodar’s Brazilian in offside position.
The open-style football went on. And while
During the half-time interval PFC CSKA boss Leonid Slutsky worked on strengthening the attack; defensive midfielder Wernbloom was substituted by the swift winger Musa. Nevertheless, it was FC Krasnodar who started the second half more actively as the home team went forward en masse and the Red-blues were forced to play mostly defensively. Anyhow, the
Immediately after that the Bulls successfully carried out a whole series of rather dangerous attacks. Pereyra attempted a shot from
In the middle of the second half Oleg Kononov threw swift Laborde into the battle, and the latter gave an extra boost to the attacks of the home team. Armeitsy kept working totally in defense, so they had little strength and time to attempt their own attacks. Gazinskiy, who performed outstandingly well this match, cut short virtually all the efforts of the Red-blues to launch an offensive, and the rest players of FC Krasnodar were also well-matched with their defensive midfielder. As a matter of fact, until the final whistle there was not even a likeness of a dangerous episode next to Dykan’s goal. As for the box of CSKA, it was really hot there sometimes. Dashes by Laborde, dribbling by Ari and Wánderson who substituted the former in the end of the match, sharp passes by Pereyra and Joãozinho, all of these exploded the stands over and over again, as despite the cold weather the people out there supported heartily their favorites. On the 85th minute Joãozinho had the best chance to increase the score, but Akinfeev coped with his shot on goal.
As a result, after the full time the scoreboard still had 2:1 displayed the way it did after the first 13 minutes of the match. FC Krasnodar achieved a natural win, and one MD short of the end of the championship’s first round the Club for the first time in its history advanced to the 2nd position in the Russian Premier League.