Filled to the eyeballs “Peter”, despite the cold weather, do not wait for the “Zenith” victory over “Benfica” in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. After losing with a score of 1: 2, the St. Petersburg group again dropped out of the fight in the first stage. “Times” tells about the surroundings of the match.
The spring on the calendar, but not the weather has traditionally come to St. Petersburg with the playoffs of the Champions League. But this football holiday is not long delayed. About the “Zenith” that trouble to make the first step on the grid, it is already possible to joke ruefully as pro fourth “Arsenal” site or forever losing in the finals of European club “Benfica”. To avoid this, just this same Portuguese team and I had to go through. <-! place 8115527, /> sport / 2016/03/09 / a_8115527.shtml, article / incut, incut1_link ->
But how? never scored in regulation time, and without their own goals to fight back after Lisbon defeat can not be in the first three matches of “Zenith” of the season.
Disqualifications and injuries forced Andre Villas-Boas release from the first minute all major newcomers – Yuri Zhirkov, Alexander Kokorin and Jose Mauricio. Subs Not Smolnikov Igor and Oleg Shatov, where Portuguese is clearly expected in the end of the match, if the Hulk and Artem Dzyuba did not wake up.
In order for the “Zenith” could poperezhivat not only in St. Petersburg, the Heineken Champions League partner organized a special Skyrooms – platform at the highest points of the four cities of Russia: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg. In the capital, it was the “Federation” tower.
But to come to the stadium and watch the game on the frost, too worth it. What if it was the last match of the Champions League in the “Petrovsky”? From playoffs to fly at any time in the next season of “Zenith” does not yet passed – not enough six points. And by 2017, the time has come to celebrate the new home on Krestovsky.
Fans have felt it and organized the first of the unusually long time sold out. Empty except place in the guest sector of the Portuguese team.
Prior to the match meandered past him only respectable middle-aged men, among whom even turned the priest, saying, alas, only in their native language. It seems that the young had neither the money nor the spirit to get to Russia. See on a bend of seniors was unusual, but they are quite ill defiantly.
However, half an hour before the start of the match the stadium was completely empty – stewards and journalists striving to fight was more than spectators. Meet the players in blue jackets was no one, they clearly received less applause. This can be explained was the fact that nobody wanted for nothing to freeze the anthem of the Champions League.
A lot of the fans before the match had gathered in a cozy store merchandise. That’s really who profit from the cold, so it is a boutique sellers of T-shirts and scarves. It not only can warm up, but also clearly see that Zhirkov and Kokorin until closer to the fans of “Zenith”. <-! place 7967795, /> sport / league / matches / 2015-2016 / 7967795.shtml, article / incut, incut2_link ->
«The best thing sold, of course, the Hulk – said Tatiana consultant. – Then there is Danny. From Russian guys over like Shatov, Smolnikova but legionaries very outperform them. Only Kerzhakov could compete with them. Now it does not sell, but sometimes small parties are imported.
Beginners little buy, do not like the guys here in Moscow. I do not share this hatred, because they have come to play. Moving to a new stadium? We are already moving ten years. I did not expect. Here 21,000 spectators, and there will be 60. Buyers more, and yet there’s not a soul will be. ”
Just a few minutes before the start to the “Petrovsky” like restless waves of the Neva, the crowd went. There were unusually quiet, without songs and chants – echo kneads fan sector and it was louder. Was it a premonition? Or wanted to keep the enthusiasm for the more important moments of the team?
Due to the fact that the people surged at the last moment, at the entrances to the sector congestion. Scary, but the stewards decided in any case to confine cursory inspection. Fortunately, no one this connivance and did not take advantage.
After the Champions League anthem – the anthem of “Zenith”, which sneaks at least the main football ringtones. Fans continued to knead the traditional voice for their songs, and on the central stands did not hesitate to whistle with a triple force on the players in red and white uniform.
most dislike caused Eliseu – defender of “Benfica” a long time lying on St Petersburg flat lawn and once entered the fray with curves. But, to the credit of the fans, in addition to the whistle black football player I did not hear anything.
The first half was pretty nervous conditions that are transmitted and Villas-Boas – to worry about his true enough. Kokorin could not cope with the role of the winger, the ball to Dzyuba and Hulk rarely reached. Care of the former Dinamo from the field did not cause negativity in the stands, but he did not get applause – they battered and Smolnikova Shatov, who in turn was succeeded by Alexander Anyukov.
The appearance of this couple waited all, and it gave fruit. At the gate, “Benfica” began to appear dangerous moments, and in the 69th minute and a goal Hulk arrived after the chic pass Zhirkov. Worry has now become Rui Vitoria, who expressed feelings of emotional leaps from the technical area. <-! place 7967783, /> sport / league / matches / 2015-2016 / 7967783.shtml, article / incut, incut3_link ->
Although overtime was asking, Villas-Boas decided to use the last change and release Artur Yusupov instead Mauricio, who, unlike Kokorin, won the applause.
But very soon “Peter” got a reason to be silent. Goal Nicolas Gaitan has become an unpleasant surprise for all, and for the possibility of kogo-to hurry to go home and not see firing Anderson Taliski.
The mood on the streets was the same as before the game – and quiet serene. But not because of the anticipation of a miracle, but because of the offensive damage.
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