Ronaldo has admitted he would consider a move to the RPL later in his career

On the pitch in the Russian Premier League leaders CSKA were thumped by Dynamo in the Moscow derby and Samuel Eto’o made his first home appearance for Anzhi Makhachkala, scoring in their win over Volga that took them up to fourth in the league.

The big news off the pitch was Ronaldo – thin one, plays for Madrid – admitting he would consider heading to Russia later in his career. He never gave a reason but it’s either the climate, the quality of football, or Mr Eto’o’s recent move and much reported world record pay packet. You decide.

CSKA MOSCOW 0-4 DYNAMO MOSCOW

Another week another capital city derby as Dynamo made the short trip to league leaders CSKA in the home side’s first match without injured goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev.

The player deemed guilty of causing the injury to the national team keeper, Spartak Moscow’s Brazilian striker Welliton, was handed a six-game ban which seems overly harsh when the damage to Akinfeev’s knee was actually caused by an awkward landing.

To say the team suffered in Akinfeev’s absence is an understatement with Andrey Voronin opening  the scoring just after the half hour, running half the length of the pitch before picking his spot. Kevin Kuranyi then heaped more misery on understudy Sergey Chepchugov three minutes later, again waltzing through a static defence.

Argentinean Leandro Fernandez took further advantage of defensive frailties when he guided a simple header wide of Chepchugov after the break and substitute Aleksandr Kokorin got the last on the stroke of full-time.

The scoreline actually flattered CSKA who remain top on goal difference with Dynamo third just two points behind.

LOKOMOTIV MOSCOW 4-2 ZENIT ST. PETERSBURG

CSKA’s capitulation presented Zenit with a great opportunity to move clear at the top and they looked ready to grab it, taking a two goal lead by half-time.

Danko Lazovic and Aleksandr Bukharov both struck to put Zenit in the driving seat as they dominated the opening half.

But Loko’s new coach Jose Coucerio wasn’t in the mood to see his side beaten for the first time since he took charge in August. It must have been one hell of a half-time team talk as summer signing Victor Obinno launched the comeback within a minute of the restart as Zenit keeper Vyacheslav Malafeev went walkabout.

Former Manchester City man Felipe Caicedo made it all square on the hour mark before Malafeev decided catching balls wasn’t for him, missing two crosses as Manuel da Costa bagged a brace of headers to complete the scoring.

The victory sees Lokomotiv up to fourth with Zenit behind CSKA on goal difference.

ANZHI MAKHACHKALA 2-1 VOLGA NIZHNY NOVGOROD 

In the world of Anzhi, Samuel Eto’o marked his first home appearance with a goal for his new club in the 2-1 win over Volga.

After going behind to a deflected effort, Eto’o displayed the composure that didn’t come cheap after Mbark Boussoufa fed the unmarked striker inside the box. A quick re-balancing and the Cameroon international was dispatching the ball inside keeper Vitaly Astakhov’s far post to make it 1-1.

It was Eto’o’s first start and his second goal in as many games in the Russian top flight. The winner was a messy affair as Roberto Carlos’ whipped low free-kick from the right of the box was deflected in for an own-goal from Volga’s Alexandr Shulenin.

It was all very emotional for Eto’o as the £320,000-a-week striker said after the game: “The life of the people here isn’t easy and if with my game I’ll be able to make them happier, then my coming here isn’t in vain.”

And we thought it was all about the money. Anzhi climb to fourth and Volga drop to 13^th.

AMKAR PERM 0-1 SPARTAK MOSCOW

Without the suspended Welliton in attack, Spartak had problems finding an end product despite creating numerous chances at Amkar.

With their strikers either absent or misfiring then it seemed fitting that the winner came from a defender Nico Pareja.

The Amkar goalkeeper should have done better organising his wall and his positioning was questionable, but Pareja’s free-kick was expertly dispatched into the corner five minutes from time. Spartak move up to sixth, Amkar stay 11^th.

SPARTAK NALCHIK 0-1 ROSTOV

Nalchik and Rostov were involved in a fairly desperate affair at the bottom of the league with the visitors win putting some much-needed daylight between them and their opponents who sink to the basement.

The only goal came from Romania international Razvan Cocis who was first to a knockdown in the area to fire home in the 83rd minute. Rostov are up to 12^th and Nalchik rock-bottom.

KRYLIA SOVIETOV SAMARA 2-0 TOM TOMSK

In another bottom of the table encounter Krylia’s win puts them just a point behind Sunday’s opponents.

The lack of firepower in the Tomsk team has seen them fail to find the net in their last six games, and financial problems still threaten the very future of the club.

Sergey Kornilenko and Pavel Yakovlev scored the goals to see Krylia climb off the bottom to 15^th and Tom drop to 14^th.

FC KRASNODAR 3-1 RUBIN KAZAN

A rather bizarre encounter with referee Igor Egorov awarding one very strange and one very soft penalty. Krasnodar went ahead when a cross bounced off the shoulder of Rubin defender Sezar Navas. With everyone expecting a goal-kick Egorov pointed to the spot – Yura Movsisyan converting.

Aleksandr Amisulashvili put the home side two up before Rubin were awarded their own soft penalty – Bibras Natcho converting after Christian Noboa went down very tamely in the box. As Rubin pressed for an equaliser, their goalkeeper Sergei Ryzhikov was caught in the opposition half allowing Brazilian midfielder Joaozinho to race through and put the ball into an empty net.

Krasnodar stay ninth, Rubin drop to seventh.

TEREK GROZNY 1-2 KUBAN KRASNODAR

A more straightforward penalty decision saw Kuban take the lead at against Terek on Monday – Ivory Coast striker Lacina Traore getting the first of his two from 12 yards out.

The equaliser from Shamil Asildarov owed more to the goalkeeping blunder of Aleksandr Belanov, who managed to spill a header directly at him into his own net.

Traore’s winner came after a defensive error allowed him to fire home from the edge of the area. Kuban stay eighth and Terek stay tenth.