SOCCER365.ru talks about the layouts for the Zenit and CSKA match as part of the third round of the Russian Championship of the season-2020/21.
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SOCCER365.ru talks about the layouts for the Zenit and CSKA match as part of the third round of the Russian Championship of the season-2020/21.
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Tournament position
Zenit and CSKA are right now in the table – both clubs have six points in the asset, having won two victories at the start and scoring two goals in each of these four matches. However, “Zenith” also played both games to zero, while CSKA from Tambov still managed to miss. Therefore, on paper, of course, “Zenith” looks like a favorite-we will talk about the nuances below.
Key points
Will the general trend of RPLs affect excessive frugality affect the top material?
Despite the fact that after two rounds, Tambov alone did not score points at all (and already corrected this in the match with Khimki), for 16 matches we saw only 31 goals – less than two in one game on average. This can be understood and explained. Short pauses, universal problems with physics and increased anxiety, plus periodic judges: the teams have become not so cautious – rather even shameful ones. In general, Zenith's football has become so immediately after the championship – this also explains the schedule with the need to play on several fronts. They scored a minimum, did not allow themselves to score – no more now needed.
It would be a little sad to see super pedantic football in this meeting, especially since in the last three of the four meetings of Zenit and CSKA four or more goals were scored for two. But, most likely, there will be no goaty explosion either: only a very fast goal can be conceived, and recently both clubs are inclined to score after 15-20 minutes at least (it is characteristic that the exception here has become just a 2- goal for 2- th the minute in the last joint meeting).
How will the loss of Rakitsky affect the zenith?
Yaroslav Rakitsky was outside the above “cloudy” moods, which, alas, failed him – in the match with Rostov the player received two “mustard” and was removed. Semak's task was clearly more complicated, because at the symbiosis of Loveren and Rakitsky a considerable part of the Semak’s ideas for the upcoming season was tied. The Ukrainian was a good dispatcher, while stable to work under pressure – we recall that for CSKA this is still tactical technique No. 1.
Most likely, the defender of Danil Prokhin was based on CSKA, and Vilmaru Barrios will have to “clean up” in defense-he, however, is not in a novelty. When the text came out about Vyren's visit to Zenit, some were perplexed by the line that Acts could become an excellent player for 3-4-3, because Semak is already trying on such a scheme as a spare plan. But now it is likely, most likely, and it turns out, since Mamman and Osorio by the will of the new rules of the limit were unhooked.Probably, at the moment, all the efforts in training are spent on ensuring at least a minimum teamwork between Prokhin and Lovren, and giving Santos more versatility. Well, it seemed to be possible to cope without Dzyuba – to cope without Rakitsky looks like some new level of a strange challenge.
Will it be easier for CSKA to take into account the mistakes of the past failure with Zenit?
The defeat, as in June, most likely will not happen, not only because of the general craving for energy saving (and it will be much more difficult for Viktor Goncharenko to escape to his homeland now, although now this is exactly what a “place of power”). Then Zenit surprised with a three-back formation with a diamond in the middle, completely covering Fernandez, who was forced to reduce his potential to crosses, and blocking both counterattacks and high pressure – as you can see above, now possible changes are already easier to read.
If CSKA has a “minimum” plan – to sit out on the defensive (which I wouldn’t want to, but it’s not worth excluding), then there are chances: the unexpectedly hardened Nababkin and the cunning Magnusson still have a better effect on Diveev, coming out at the start than Vasin and Karpov ( although even a candlestick, a clock and a teapot from the cartoon about Beauty and the Beast would have played better than the trio Diveev-Karpov-Vasin in that meeting with Zenit – and CSKA that evening was far from Beauty). The loss of Chalov and Vlasic in the attack is also not fatal – here Goncharenko needs to switch Shkurin to Gaich in time (or vice versa?), while in the absence of injured Vlasic and Dzagoev, the speedy and, as it turned out, scoring Konstantin Kuchaev opened up quite well – and after all, when -they retrained him to the lateral! Right now, Kuchaev is the most motivated player of the “army men”, you can’t argue with that.
Rates
In the last 11 matches, Zenit only once scored less than two goals against the opponent: it is even surprising that on IT1B (1.5) ratio is not the lowest 1,94.
The statistics of personal meetings between Zenit and CSKA draws attention to itself by the fact that in the last eight matches the teams took away a draw five times from the field: three times it was a score of 0:0 and two – 1:1. So we have an excellent compound bet X + TM (2.5) behind 2,94.
Bonus for thrill-seekers inspired by Kuchaev's goals in the previous two matches: Kuchaev will score for 9.00! Isn't that a miracle?