MOSCOW, July 29, Alena Sulizova. Krasnodar will no longer have such favorable conditions for the championship as in the previous season of the Russian Premier League (RPL), said former USSR national team player Vladimir Ponomarev.
Krasnodar took second place in the last RPL season. Zenit St. Petersburg became the champion. Dynamo Moscow finished third. This season, Krasnodar is tenth, having earned two points in two matches.
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"Football players have such a jump, then they start thinking that they are very strong — and such nonsense turns out. You shouldn't think that you are already a champion — it's a useless number, you need to constantly work on yourself and improve your football skills. Will Krasnodar be able to become a champion? No, it's impossible, it's just that such a leap happens very rarely,» Ponomarev said.
«Their game is, of course, not very good so far. What can you do? Where can he (coach Murad Musaev) go? The players themselves are most likely weak. It's always about the players, the coach is not a rocket scientist, he won't play for them. Here, you could say, it's 50/50. Such is the coach's fate, everyone thinks that it's all about him. It happens that the atmosphere in the team is bad,» the agency's interlocutor added.