Evgeny Melezhikov, general manager of Moscow “Spartak”, said that the club has no task to catch “Zenith” in the standings of the Russian Premier League (RPL).
“We talked for a long time in the boot camp about what kind of Spartak we wanted to build. It is gratifying that their goals and aspirations coincide with ours. We focus on Russian players and it’s good that the coach likes to work with young players. He wants young players to do some work in the Russian market. Is the task to catch up with Zenit? There is no task to catch up at Zenit, there is a task to always be at the top. And you know our goals, they do not change, ”quotes Melezhikov “Rating bookmakers”.
After 18 weeks in the RPL, Spartak is in second place with 37 points. In the last round, Guillermo Abascal’s team drew 2:2 with the Urals. After the blue-whites’ victory against Paris Nizhny Novgorod, the red-whites’ backlog in Zenit increased to eight points. Third place is Rostov. Valery Karpin’s team has 35 points.
Formerly Leonid Fedun He talked about the ten Spartak players in the expanded list of the Russian national team.