Moscow CSKA and Torpedo played a friendly match as part of the winter training camp in Abu Dhabi. The match ended with a 3-2 victory for the red-blue team.
40-year-old Igor Lebedenko, one of the torpedo masters, opened the score in the 10th minute. Six minutes later, newly recruited Tamerlan Musaev scored the return goal; This goal was his first match for the army team. However, the teams went into the break with a score of 2:1 in favor of Torpedo – shortly before the whistle, Dmitry Poloz scored an accurate shot.
Only CSKA players scored in the second half. Willian Rocha equalized the score in the 48th minute and Ivan Oblyakov scored the winning goal in the 53rd minute. In the end, the Torpedo team had a chance to escape defeat, but Timur Melekestsev could not capitalize on the one-on-one opportunity.
CSKA entered the winter break in eighth place in the Russian Premier League (RPL) standings. Vladimir Fedotov’s team scored 28 points in 18 games.
Torpedo is preparing to restart the season under the leadership of a new coach, his third this season. The black-and-whites took the field in the autumn under the leadership of Spaniard Josep Clotet, soon Artem Gorlov was appointed to replace him, and on January 17, it was decided to appoint Oleg Kononov, the former mentor of Spartak and Krasnodar, to this position. announced. At the same time, it became known that Torpedo’s management had changed: Alexander Volnushkin, a former member of the Khimki supervisory board, became the president of the club instead of Yaroslav Savin.
Torpedo currently sit eighth in the First League standings. The team has 27 points after 20 matches.
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