Petersburg Zenit and former football player of the Russian national team Andrey Arshavin, evaluating the results of the match between Torpedo and Spartak, said that the red and whites could not yet meet the expectations in the 2nd half of the Russian Premier League (RPL) season.
“Spartak did not make a holistic impression. The first half was only associated with the penalty, the second half was not tense, in the end Torpedo could have been saved if they had been more successful.
After a break, we all thought that Spartak would run to Zenit and compete, but they only caught Rostov,” Arshavin says. “Match TV”.
In the 23rd round of the RPL, Spartak defeated the capital’s Torpedo with a score of 2: 1. Among the winners, Keita Balde and Roman Zobnin scored. Ilya Stefanovich scored for Torpedo.
The head referee of the meeting, Pavel Shadykhanov, delivered three 11-meter hits to the doors of the car factory, but the red-whites only took one penalty – Zobnin’s shot was on point. Balde hit the crossbar and Ruslan Litvinov’s shot was saved by Torpedo goalkeeper Egor Baburin.
Spartak is third in the RPL table with 45 points. The leader is Zenit (54), the second is Rostov (45).
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