The famous former domestic football player, defender and midfielder of St. Petersburg Zenit, Moscow Spartak and Krasnodar Maxim Demenko, in a commentary to socialbites.ca, explained why the current champion remains the main favorite of the Russian Premier League, despite the deterioration there, in which there is a fight.
“If we win the whole championship, it will be a little easier for Zenit. Although he also has problems. Nobody knew that Glushenkov would fit into the team so well and score so many goals – it became a completely different game. Glushenkov is gone, there are problems again, they are signing players again… Of course, Zenit and other teams will have a hard time in the championship. Let’s see. The game showed that Spartak is getting closer to Zenit. We saw that in the match too,” Demenko says.
Zenit and Spartak played out a goalless draw in the sixth round of the RPL in St. Petersburg, with the away team having the advantage of the game while the home team spent most of the second half in the minority after Strahini Erakovic was sent off. After seven rounds, Zenit leads the RPL with 17 points, followed by Krasnodar and Lokomotiv with 15 points each, Spartak with 15 points each, and Dynamo and CSKA with 14 points each.
Previously was named The main favourite in the RPL.