2024-04-21 19:59:01
ROSTOV-ON-DON, April 21. /TASS/. Moscow football club “Spartak” defeated “Rostov” with a score of 5:1 in the away match of the 25th round of the World Cup – Russian Premier League (RPL). The meeting took place in Rostov-on-Don in the presence of 30,593 spectators.
Daniil Khlusevich (16th minute), Jesus Medina (54th, 60th, from the penalty spot), Christopher Martins (76th) and Theo Bongonda (90th+4) scored goals for the winners. Egor Golenkov (37) scored for the losers. Before the penalty, Rostov head coach Valery Karpin changed the goalkeeper; Nikita Medvedev entered the field instead of Sergei Pesyakov. For Karpin, the last match was his 300th in the RPL as head coach.
Khlusevich opened the scoring in the match following a free kick from Medina. For the first time in the RPL season, Spartak players managed to score a goal from a set piece. In the match once morest Rostov, midfielder Anton Roshchin made his debut for the main red-white team. He became the first footballer born in 2005 in history to play for Spartak.
“Rostov” suffered its first defeat in the RPL following the winter holidays; Before this meeting, Rostovites played five matches in the national championship, in which they won four and drew one. At the same time, Karpin’s team lost to CSKA Moscow in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the “RPL path” (0:2) within the framework of the national cup and fell into the “path of regions”.
Spartak won their first victory under the leadership of Vladimir Slishkovic, currently interim head coach. On April 14, the Moscow club announced the resignation of Guillermo Abascal. After that, Spartak played the second leg of the ½ final of the “RPL way” in St. Petersburg once morest the local Zenit (0:0).
The red and white occupy fourth place in the RPL ranking with 38 points. Rostov is eighth with 34 points. The teams will play their next matches on April 25 – Spartak will play away once morest CSKA, Rostov will meet Ural. The games will take place as part of the 21st round, postponed from mid-March due to the Russian presidential elections.
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