On April 2, in the quarter-final match of the Russian Cup Road of Regions, St. SKA-Khabarovsk in St. Petersburg hosted Dynamo Moscow and lost with a score of 1:2.
In the 12th minute of the match, Vyacheslav Grulev opened the scoring of the match. The home team managed to take the victory in the middle of the second half. Albek Gongapshev regained his balance. Five minutes later, Paraguayan Fabian Balbuena put the blue-whites ahead once again.
Khimki and Rostov, Ural and Lokomotiv, as well as Akhmat and Orenburg will play later in this tournament group.
In the semi-finals of the Russian Cup RPL Path, Baltika will face CSKA and Spartak will face Zenit. In this tournament group, teams will play two matches against each other.
The current owner of the Russian Cup is CSKA. In last year’s final, the red-blue team beat Krasnodar in the penalty shoot-out. The Bulls completed their participation in this season’s tournament by losing to Khimki.
Let us also note that, starting from the spring of 2022, with the decision of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Russian clubs have lost the opportunity to compete in European cups.
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