Alexander BokulevDeputy Head of Editorial Board SportAll materialsAfter almost a third of the next season of the Russian Premier League. As expected, Zenit is the leader in this cut-off, which in the ninth round rewrote its own history, roughly reminding Orenburg of its place in the food chain of domestic football. Everyone is probably used to the dominance of the St. “Zenith” really has a unique margin of safety in the domestic arena, but around him there is still talk of various dirty tricks and behind-the-scenes intrigues. Among them, of course, is the position of Orenburg, which, due to sponsorship and organizational nuances, is allegedly doomed, regardless of the mood to “go to bed” under the “blue-white-blue”. It is everyone’s choice to agree or argue with this. The fact is that the Petersburgers have now won all seven matches against the Ural rival, but it was on Sunday that a certain level of football violence was overcome. After two years without the RPL, Orenburg came to the Baltic coast, in order, as it turned out, to endure such humiliation that not every team faces even in its long history.
