Sergey PogrebnyakSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to authorRubin suffered its first defeat after relegation from the Russian Premier League (RPL). Leonid Slutsky's team lost to Enisey on the road, conceding two goals in the first half hour of the game. But the main sensation of the meeting was not the loss of Kazan at all, but the fact that the match in July in Krasnoyarsk was held in an indoor arena. The problem of the presence of arenas or stadiums with a roof has long been one of the most discussed topics of our football. With the onset of cold weather and snowfall, natural fields one by one begin to turn into a dirty mess, preventing the teams from showing a high-speed game. This topic is usually returned to by the end of autumn, but this year we suddenly had to discuss the game in the arena in the middle of summer. In Krasnoyarsk, we ran into problems at the Central Stadium, which is the main arena of the team. The reason for moving to the arena was called «the inability to show branded football».
"The next home matches of the First League will be held in the arena. The main reason is that the field on "Central" will not allow the team to play ball control and show combinational football, which our fans like and makes the team different from others in the league", — reported in the club.
Later the situation was clarified by sports director Anton Evmenov. He stated that there is only one natural football field in all of Krasnoyarsk, which is located at the Centralny stadium. To play on natural turf, you also need to train on a natural turf. It turns out that the team is simply «killing» the lawn at the stadium with daily training, not allowing matches to be played on it.