Lokomotiv midfielder Alexey Batrakov spoke about the main authorities of the team in the locker room. His words are quoted “Sports Express”.
“Who is the boss in the locker room? I will call Dima Barinov and Artem Dzyuba dad. Everyone in the team congratulated me on my debut, there were no jokes. But everyone is upset with the result. We could have won, but that’s football. “We will try to prove ourselves in the next match,” said Batrakov.
Batrakov made his debut for Lokomotiv in the match against Krasnodar on 31 March. Artem Dzyuba and Nair Tiknizyan were not included in the team’s application.
On March 31, Lokomotiv and Krasnodar drew with a score of 1:1. Right at the beginning of the match, Timur Suleymanov sent the ball into his own goal, and Maxim Glushenkov equalized at the end of the game.
In the previous round, the Railwaymen missed the victory against Sochi (2:2).
Lokomotiv, which collected 33 points after the 21st week in the Russian Premier League (RPL), shares the fourth place in the rankings with CSKA. Zenit continues its leadership. The blue-white-sky blues drew 1:1 with Krylya Sovetov in this round. Krasnodar remained in second place. The top three were completed by Dinamo, who lost 1:4 to Rostov.
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