Our level – Cyprus. European Cup curse Russia – SPORT – EXPRESS

UEFA EUROPA. 4th qualifying round. The first matches

DYNAMO – Omonia – 2: 1
APOLLO – LOCOMOTIVE – 1: 1
Trabzonspor – Height – 2: 0
Real Sociedad – Krasnodar – 1: 0
Leg – August 28

APOEL, AEL, “Omonia”, “Apollo” … Football clubs from Cyprus – present curse for Russia. After two draws yesterday’s balance Russian teams in the confrontation with the Cypriots + 4 = 3-3. That is, we are with them on the same level. Anyway yesterday in the European Cup was not a day of Russia – a single victory for four.

Dmitry Simonov

Each Napoleon waiting for his Waterloo. Every coach Russian club seems to be his “Molde”, his “St. Gallen”, its “Kosice”. This is not a bad thing. This is fate. The peak of the problems, the quintessence of troubles bottoming what everyone reacts differently: someone so at the bottom and left, and someone comes up quickly. Leonid Slutsky after AIC became the champion of Russia, Valery Gazzaev shortly after the “Vardar” won the UEFA Cup, but Valery Karpin has not learned the lessons of any of the “Legia” nor of “St. Gallen”.

How to react Stanislav Cherchesov to “Omonia” guessing prematurely. So far no one no one lost. Draw with. According to the rules of football, “Omonia” going home in the status of the favorite response of the game after a draw away. But we understand in Russia: not changed nothing, on the domestic team is obliged to go, because it is faster, higher, stronger, at worst – richer. Player will certainly reveal to our hitters zone chakra pores and everything else that can be opened.

Keywords – “richer” and “we” (alas, with each other no not related). Yes, Russia genuinely surprised, indignant, sometimes laughing – as the “Dynamo” almost lost the home club with the 165th line in the UEFA rankings. But from the point of view of the rest of the world – any sensation. 165th team in Europe made a draw with the 141st. Yes, with the 141st. So what’s the surprise?

“Dynamo” in ten, if not more times greater than the “riot” on budget and on the estimated cost of, but on the achievements at the European level, they almost identical, equidistant from the “Real”, “Bavaria” or “Barcelona.” With their height and they and we – evrokarliki … You can with what you want skeptical of all sorts of lists, but the match confirmed that it figures in the UEFA rankings, but not in the budget to better reflect reality. After all, the game was equal …

Draw a “riot” – that is anything but a coincidence. All the latest games, “Dynamo” to prove the existence of the same problems that are currently incurable. Here they are, point by point.

1. Goals are scored almost exclusively with the standard provisions. Or crazy.

2. Kokorin, despite a hat-trick in the first round, ugly acts. Being a fan of his talent, I believe he just did not have time to get ready for the season physically and mentally because of the 2014 World Cup, but so far his game, of course, will not do.

3. Goalkeepers play so that Guram ajo was about to go to church, put a candle. But somehow I can not believe that this will help.

4. Defense – a catastrophe, a kaleidoscope of absurdities and banalities. Samba, Douglas Buettner – some collective caricature. Buettner may shout to score goals and cuddle with Cherchesovym, but what all of this price, then if he loses a player in the penalty area, and all hope for the post?

The last point, a weak defense – the most important and tragic. In modern football can be in varying degrees of effective attack, but you must be able to defend themselves, to aim a blow at something serious. “Dynamo” to defend at the moment can not. In seven games of the season the team missed 11 goals – from all but the “Ufa”, even before nobody scored Tula “Arsenal”, even “Hapoel” of Kiryat Shmona.

After a couple of hours after the game with the “Dynamo” sweetened the pill “Locomotive” (85th place in the UEFA rankings). How else to consider them heroically won points (nine men fought, Rod saved 90 + 6th!) In a fight with the ordinary sinister Cypriots 171st team in Europe “Apollo”? It, “Apollo”, trains came from women’s football, for it puts the Ivorian by name, but rather by the names Gia-Gia Gneki, whose golden years were the performances of the Hungarian “Honved” and “Tour” of the French second division. In short, our level. Draw with. Rejoice!

And again – good old word about “everything will be fine,” superiority in wealth and strength of the composition. And again – all to nausea logical from the point of view is not money, but the game. In August, “Locomotive” – ​​uninventive, boring, monotonous – rebuilt with great difficulty, though all its parts are put on the glue. A complete failure in the attack: N’Doye awful Pavlyuchenko older, Niasse not involved. In the core zone is no equivalent replacement Diarra. Manu Fernandes is not a playmaker.

For some reason, as it turns out that all the problems in the Russian championship teams manage to hide, cover up, brighten up, get out together at once, like pimples on the cheeks, one has only to turn up in Europe. And Litmus are not “real” with “Barcelona” and “some kind” of Cyprus.

And if so, whether we be in mourning because of the defeat ” growth “from” Trabzonspor “and especially” Krasnodar “from” Real Sociedad “? Turkey, Spain … We have someone smaller to begin to beat, and yourself – to grow. Not on wages, not in terms of budget, not even in the UEFA rankings, but the quality of the game.