Why Spartak Derby – CSKA to be held Monday – Premier League News – Football

On Tuesday, the RPL posted on its website a calendar of the first eight rounds of the championship. This is not a structure, not a breakdown by visits, but the final version. And it has turned out a number of interesting moments.

Derby "Spartak" – CSKA will take place on Monday 19 August and will start at 20 hours. Of course, this could not please non-resident fans who will face difficulties attending a match or will be forced to refuse to travel to Moscow.

Why According to my information, an appointment for such a date – please Red and white taken in August between the matches of the qualifying phase of the Europa League.

We are looking at the Spartacist program from mid-August to early September:

• August 15 (Thursday) – third leg match of the Europa League selection;
• August 19 (Monday) – Match Spartak – CSKA in the Russian Premier League;
• August 22 (Thursday) – first match of the 4th round of the selection for the Europa League;
• August 25 (Sunday) – match Krylya Sovetov – Spartak in the RPL;
• August 29 (Thursday) – return leg of the fourth round of the selection for the Europa League;
• September 1st (Sunday) – match "Spartak" – "Zenit" in the RPL.

Crazy program: for two weeks, six meetings. However, the Muscovites themselves gave themselves a similar.

Last May, the team showed (and for the second consecutive year) that the ugly football match of the last, 30th round against Orenburg, was defeated – and reached the LE qualification, instead of securing a immediate access to the group stage.

Now, it turns out that even by not taking into account the most powerful rivals in the LU selection, there is a real hell of timing. And here there is a question for the managers who are responsible for the schedule. All RPL clubs have the right to express their wishes regarding the schedule. Pay attention to how the men of the army do everything: at the beginning and at the end of the championship Red and blue get some pretty simple rivals. I do not know if Spartak has taken into account a month of August as tense, but the presence of the derby this month, as well as the match with Zenit during the day of knowledge, seem to be a flaw. Of course, it was only worth writing an appeal to not receive during these two weeks best opponents. Obviously, CSKA and the St Petersburg team have every interest in meeting Spartak on this particular segment.

Red and white ask to move the derby Monday, obviously wish to have more time to recover just before the battle against CSKA, sacrificing the rest before the return leg of the LE.

However, there is an option that will make insignificant the date of the meeting with CSKA – if the team of Oleg Kononov does not pbad the third qualifying round. The schedule will be unloaded, but what will happen to the coach in this case, I do not even want to think about it.

It is not known whether the inhabitants of Sochi were able to somehow affect the schedule before it is published, but they want to sympathize. First, head coach Alexander Tochilin.

In the first round, the beginners of the RPL go to Spartak, the second to Zenit, then to Krasnodar. Three consecutive rounds against best clubs at the start, and already in the 5th lap – CSKA.

But that's half the problem. In August, the Tochilin team has a very special schedule: the matches will take place on the 11th, 16th, 26th and 31st. It's a break between the tours of some The moment reaches five days, then ten. How does Tochilin build a training process?

The situation of "bulls" is similar to that in which "Spartak" has turned out. In August, during the selection of Krasnodar for the Champions League, meetings with Zenit (3rd) and Lokomotiv (24th) will take place.

Match with blue-white-blue – the most resonant. On St Petersburg stadium on August 2nd at 7:30 pm, the Rammstein group will perform and one day later, at 9:30 pm, the RPL match will take place. Starting to disbademble concerts will be the coolest quest in Gazprom Arena's short history.

But for the bulls, it's more important than the 6th or 7th of August, there is a match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League. That's why, probably, the meeting with Zenit has not been postponed to Sunday, August 4th – so have more time to recover.