The meeting in Nizhny Novgorod will begin at 18:30 Moscow time. “Tambov” and “Akhmat” are neighbors in the standings – the team from Grozny after 26 games is in 14th place with 27 points, Tambov residents scored 28 points and occupy 13th place. “Tambov” after the resumption of the championship suffered three defeats in a row, but in the last round, the team of Sergei Pervushin on the road beat Moscow “Spartak” with a score of 3: 2. In the match with Akhmat, the hosts will not be helped by the midfielder Valery Chuperka, who scored the ball in the previous meeting, but received the eighth yellow card of the season and will miss the game with a direct competitor in the fight for survival.
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Before leaving for a break caused by a coronavirus pandemic, Akhmat occupied the last line in the table. After a pause, Igor Shalimov’s team scored seven points in three matches, defeating Wings of the Soviets (4: 2) and Arsenal (3: 1), and also tied with Sochi (1: 1). In the last round, “Akhmat” in its field has largely lost to Moscow CSKA with a score of 0: 4. Shalimov will definitely not be able to count on the injured defender Rizvan Utsiev in the upcoming match, the participation of strikers Vladimir Ilyin and Andres Ponce remains in question.
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The meeting between Arsenal (31 points) and Wings of the Soviets (24 points) will begin at 20:30 Moscow time, both clubs have replaced the head coaches after a pause. Samarians, having suffered two defeats at the start of the summer segment of the championship, dismissed Miodrag Bozovic. In the next two meetings, the team was led by Andrei Talalaev, who achieved a draw with Moscow Lokomotiv (1: 1) and Rostov (0: 0). However, competitors of Wings of the Soviets scored points, so the club could only rise to the penultimate line, now lagging behind the 14th place, which allows maintaining a residence permit in the top division, by three points.
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Arsenal suffered three consecutive defeats after a pause, the club management accepted the resignation of Igor Cherevchenko, and Sergei Podpaly will serve as head coach until the end of the championship. Under his leadership, the Tulaks in the last round won a guest victory over Dynamo Moscow (1-0) and broke away from the Wings of the Soviets in the relegation zone by seven points. In case of victory, Arsenal may rise from 10th to sixth place. After the break, Evgeni Lutsenko is different in the Tula team in each match, who already has 13 goals and shares the second place in the list of the top scorers of the championship with Serdar Azmun from St. Petersburg Zenit.
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Defender Kirill Kombarov, who received a red card in a meeting with Dynamo, will not help Arsenal in the upcoming match. The participation of defender Gia Grigalava and midfielder Goran Chaushich remains in doubt. “Wings of Soviets”
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