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RPL Week 27 Round-Up: Top Three All Draw But Zenit Remain The Biggest Winners
Zenit joined Lokomotiv, Rubin and Amkar Perm as the weekend’s big winners despite the St.Pete’s side only earning a point
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Zenit joined Lokomotiv, Rubin and Amkar Perm as the weekend’s big winners despite the St.Pete’s side only earning a point
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It was honours even as Russia’s biggest cities clashed at Luzhniki where a Spartak Moscow side, unbeaten in ten, took on Zenit, who’d lost only once in fifteen.
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League leaders Zenit eased past Tom Tomsk while challengers Dynamo Moscow lost ground with defeat in Samara, with the pitch at Krylya’s Metallurg Stadium taking the blame
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Dynamo won again, Zenit toppled CSKA at the top, while Spartak hero Andrei Tikhonov called time on a 20-year career as Samuel Eto’o’s Anzhi fired a blank in week 24 of the RPL
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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
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Samuel Eto’o got his Anzhi career off to a scoring start, and Zenit stormed back into joint first place with a hat-trick from Aleksandr Kerzhakov.
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The only fixture between top-half sides saw ambitious Anzhi upset dashing Dynamo, with Loko’s win over FC Krasnodar putting daylight between those who will contest the Championship in the next stage, and the bottom half who will battle relegation.
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Former Germany international Kevin Kuranyi was on target as Dynamo Moscow hit Terek for six. Alex Jackson reports on the RPL
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Landing Samuel Eto’o would be seismic. Still only 30, not only would he become the RPL’s first – and only – bona fide megastar still at the top of his game, but he is one of the world’s foremost black athletes.
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Another crazy weekend in the RPL saw three missed penalties, floodlight failure in Grozny, Yuri Zhirkov arrive in Makhachkala with Samuel Eto’o rumoured to follow
moreRoberto Carlos is still firing in the dead balls from all distances as Anzhi Makhachkala moved up to fourth spot in the RPL
moreAs the RPL returns from a mid-summer break, old-boy Loskov helped new Loko coach, Couceiro, to a winning start, Semshov passed 100 goals, Zenit beat Anzhi in the “Clash-of-the-Cash”, Spartak began the ‘second half’ of the season with a win and CSKA cruised into a seven point lead at the top.
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