Zenit against Loko, southern derby and Spartak’s struggle for survival. The 27th round of the RPL has prepared a menu for gourmets 04/29/2022 read the blog on

1. In the first round match, Rubin won a strong-willed victory over Sochi with a score of 2:1. The team of Leonid Slutsky also won the previous game in Kazan – 1:0.

2. In the previous round, Rubin won against the Tula Arsenal (1:0) and thus interrupted a series of six matches without victories in all tournaments (5 defeats, 1 draw).

Dynamo – Ural

1. The backlog of Dynamo from the leading Zenit following the results of the previous round has grown from 3 points to 6. If the Blue and White lose to Ural at home, then Zenit will have the opportunity to win an early victory in the championship tomorrow ( will need to beat Lokomotiv).

2. The previous match between Dynamo and Ural in Moscow (April 2021) ended with a score of 2:2. It is noteworthy that Pavel Pogrebnyak scored a double in the Urals, who in this match scored twice as many goals against Dynamo as in three seasons in the Dynamo T-shirt.

3. Thanks to the victory over Ufa in the previous round, Ural got out of the relegation zone into the play-off zone, at the end of the season the team from Yekaterinburg will face a fierce struggle for survival.

Krasnodar – Rostov

1. 7 of the last 9 southern derbies have ended in draws – 1:1 or 2:2. Krasnodar and Rostov can rarely determine the winner in a football dispute between the two capitals of the south.

2. Rostov won four matches in a row in the Russian Premier League: the series began with a victory over Krylya Sovetov (1:0) and continued in matches against Lokomotiv (4:1), Arsenal (2:1) ) and Spartak (3:2). Never before, under Valery Karpin, Rostov has not managed to win four games in a row. It is not surprising that Karpin was recognized as the best coach in April in the RPL.

3. Krasnodar, on the contrary, is in decline: only one victory in the last five matches and two defeats in a row (0:2 from Krylya Sovetov and 1:3 from Zenit).

Zenit – Lokomotiv

1. As already mentioned in the block dedicated to the Dynamo-Ural match, this match could potentially become a championship match for Zenit. The Blue-White-Blues will be able to become unattainable in the table following the results of the 27th round of the RPL if Dynamo loses to Ural, and they themselves take over Lokomotiv.

3. Zenit has not lost to Lokomotiv for six matches (three wins, three draws), and the previous match at the Gazprom Arena ended in a crushing victory for the hosts 6:1 and secured the championship title for Zenit in the 2020/21 season. Thus, the railroad theoretically can become participants in the golden match of St. Petersburg for the second year in a row.

Spartak – Wings of the Soviets

1. Four rounds before the finish of the championship, Spartak is three points away from the play-off zone.“Red-white” has not yet secured participation in the RPL for the next season, the threat of departure is real.

2. Historically, “Wings of the Soviets” are a convenient opponent for Spartak: “red-white” has six wins in a row of Samara and 11 winnings in the last 12 matches.

3. Spartakovtsy Alexander Sobolev, Danil Prutsev and Nikita Chernov used to play for the “wings of the Soviets”, and Maxim Glushenkov and Ilya Gaponov play as part of the Volzhan. The first was rented by “wings” by Spartak until the end of the season, and the second moved from Moscow to Samara last winter.

Khimki – Ufa

2. “Khimki” rose from the departure zone and already claim the finish outside the area of ​​the butt matches, while “Ufa” occupies the penultimate place and is one of the main applicants for the flight to the FNL.

3. The confrontation of “Himmok” and “Ufa” is uncompromising, these teams never tied. Ufa won three victories, Khimki won twice.

Arsenal – Nizhny Novgorod

1. Arsenal did not win a single match in the spring part of the season – 6 defeats and 2 draws. Such results abandoned the team of myodraga Bozhovich in the last place in the table.

2. The “Nizhny Novgorod” Alexander Kerzhakov, who was constantly held throughout the season, in the end of the championship, unexpectedly ended up on the verge of hitting the butt matches: the “himik” who went thirteenth already already already points as the “lower” – 28 each.

3. The match of the first circle turned out to be dramatic: “Nizhny Novgorod” scored a quick goal, but was already inferior in the score to the break. In the 85th minute, Alexei Kozlov seemed to bring Nizhny Novgorod a draw, but Arsenal pulled out the victory by 90+4-2: 3.