On August 20, in Moscow, Spartak played Zenit St. Petersburg hosted. The match ended with the victory of the visiting team with a score of 3:1.
In the middle of the first half, the blue-white-blues took the lead. Muscovites captain Georgiy Jikia cleared the ball into his own net after hitting the midfielder after hitting Vendel. In the second half, the Brazilian scored the second goal. Claudinho made a brilliant pass into the penalty area, where Wendel dribbled into the bottom corner of Ilya Svinov’s goal.
In the 79th minute of the match, after watching VAR, Sergei Karasev gave a penalty to Zenit, who hit Wilmar Barrios with his hand inside his own penalty area. Alexander Sobolev took the penalty kick. In overtime substitute Mateo Cassierra, St. Petersburg scored the third goal of the team.
The leaders of the championship after five rounds are two teams – “Ural” and “Krasnodar”. Both teams have 13 points. After today’s match, Zenit gains 10 points and is compared to the top three Dynamo. Spartak drops from fifth to sixth place.
Previously reportedIt was stated that the general director of Zenit fell hard after hitting the ball before the Spartak match.