Sergey PogrebnyakSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the authorSpartak in the match with Yenisei surprisingly brought the score to a devastating one only at the end of the match. If Vladimir Bystrov had been in the mixed zone after the game, he would definitely have asked the “red-whites”: “Do you train one-on-one outings there at all?” But the number of unrealized moments will not spoil the mood of the Muscovites, who reached the final of the Russian Cup for the first time since 2003. Now the “red-whites” are waiting for the most important match in the last five years. The match for the trophy, which will be held at the end of May in Luzhniki. Only this time, the opponent will definitely be much stronger and will be able to impose a fight, because Dynamo has also been dreaming of raising the coveted cup over their heads for a very long time. The most amazing thing is that Spartak repeats the history of five years ago. As the season progresses, the team is again taken over by former assistant Antonio Conte, who has not previously worked as a head coach, and leads his players to a trophy that the club has not had in over 15 years. Now, until the embodiment of the fairy tale, “red-white” has only one step left to take, which will be the most difficult in its entire path to the cup. Paolo Vanoli, if he wins the trophy, can become the new Massimo Carrera for Spartak fans. Of course, the significance of the Cup of Russia and the national championship is slightly different, but the situations of the coaches are similar. I think everyone in the camp of the “red-whites” has already come to terms with the disastrous result of the season in the Russian Premier League, but winning the Cup can be a real cherry on the cake in the year of the club's centenary.
