Former midfielder of Moscow Spartak, Samara Krylya Sovetov and Moscow region Khimki Andrei Tikhonov in an interview RT He stated that red-white captain Georgiy Dzhikia lost his fight for a place in the first 11 to Serbian Srdjan Babic.
“Where have you seen two left-footed defenders? Jikia lost the competition not to Alexis Duarte but to Srdjan Babic! We will not say who is better and who is worse, but now the coach knows better when he sees exactly this picture,” said Tikhonov.
Guillermo Abascal’s team will face Rostov in the 15th round of the Russian Championship. The meeting will take place on November 12. The starting whistle will blow at 19.30 Moscow time.
After 14 rounds, Spartak are in sixth place in the Russian Premier League, 21 points and 11 points behind leaders Krasnodar, as well as current national champions St. They are nine points behind Zenit from St. Petersburg.
Previously at Gazprom we were not satisfied Zenit’s draw with Krasnodar.