Former Moscow Spartak football player Ari said that leaving the Russian Cup could help the red and whites in the Russian championship and give them the necessary momentum. “Sport Express”.
On April 19, as part of the second round of the Russian Cup semi-finals, Spartak lost to Akron Togliatti by a score of 1: 2. Thus, the Moscow club will not be able to protect the championship that it won last season.
“Big teams always fly out of the Russian Cup. This is such a feature of the tournament that any team can beat any team. When I was at Spartak, we had breakouts from the Cup offensively, but we played well in the championship. Maybe Spartak will wake up and win the remaining matches in the championship,” he said.
Spartak will play the next match in the 24th week of the Russian Premier League (RPL). The starting whistle for the match to be played in Moscow on April 24 will be blown at 19.00 Moscow time.
After 23 weeks in the RPL, the red-whites are in the third place with 45 points.
Earlier it was reported that the former football player and coach of Moscow “Spartak” Valery Gladilin. declarationHe said that in the match against Krasnodar in the 24th week of the Russian Premier League, the red-whites will have a hard time due to the fact that they have not yet recovered from the sensational Akron defeat in the semi-finals of the Russian Cup (1-2). .