"Torpedo" beat " Volga" on the character without removed Kashtanov

In the rescheduled match of the 19th round of the First League, Ulyanovsk Volga on November 14 hosted the Moscow Torpedo. The meeting took place at the Lev Yashin Labor stadium in Ulyanovsk and ended with the victory of the guests with a minimum score of 1: 0. The game was served by the chief referee Sergey Fedotov from Pavlov.

The fate of the match was decided by the only ball scored already in the 12th minute: Torpedo forward Alexander Yushin scored. There were no more goals scored in this meeting, and the capital team held an early advantage until the final whistle, although the end was held in the minority.

In the 75th minute the field left the forward of Muscovites Alexei Kashtanov. He entered into a horseback fight with Volga defender Artem Bykov, fouled on an opponent, and then, when the Ulyanovsk footballer was already lying on the lawn, struck him with a kick. Sergey Fedotov showed the attacker a straight red card without hesitation. By this point, Kashtanov had spent a little more than ten minutes on the field: he came on as a substitute in the 62nd minute instead of Jonathan Okoronkva.

The result significantly changed the layout at the top of the table. Torpedo scored 35 points in 18 meetings and rose to second place. "Volga" after 19 matches has 22 points and is in eighth place.

Head coach of Muscovites Vyacheslav Vashkevich at a press conference summed up two minimal victories in a row, won under his leadership. In terms of points, he called these six points the ideal result, but in terms of the quality of the game and the number of goals scored, in his opinion, to the ideal. The specialist admitted that the quality of football still leaves much to be desired, the team has a lot of work, and expressed hope that it will continue to progress.

Separately, the coach focused on the weather, which, according to him, seriously complicated the task and influenced the style of the game. It was not possible to control the ball the way the team wanted it: there were many losses and a lot of struggle, and the football itself was reduced mainly to canopies, rebounds and martial arts. That is why Vashkevich considers the victory in such conditions especially valuable - it, in his opinion, was the result of the moral and volitional qualities and character of the players and showed that the team has a core and is able to win difficult matches.

With the definition of victory on character, the coach agreed. He recalled that from the 75th minute his team played ten, and in the first half received three yellow cards, with warnings went to key players. In such circumstances, Vashkevich noted, it was quite difficult to keep the account.

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But to discuss the act of Alexei Kashtanov mentor “Torpedo” did not comment on the episode with the removal of his footballer, he refused.