CSKA Moscow broke its own anti-record by conceding 15 goals in the nine opening rounds of the Russian Premier League (RPL) for the first time in its history. This was reported by Opta.
At the same time, the army club is currently in St. St. Petersburg ranks second along with Zenit in the number of goals scored – in total Vladimir Fedotov’s team has 19 goals, Samara “Wings of the Soviets” are in the lead with 21 goals.
Only CSKA and Rubin could not keep their goal in at least one match after nine rounds in the Russian Championship in the 2023/24 season.
CSKA managed to avoid defeat in the ninth round match (RPL) in Rostov-on-Don, losing to Rostov with scores of 0:2 and 1:3. CSKA currently sits ninth in the RPL standings with 13 points. The red-blue team will host Baltika Kaliningrad in the next match. This match will be played on October 1 at the VEB Arena stadium and will start at 19:00 Moscow time.
Former Zenit player Maxim Demenko named CSKA’s main problem.