MOSCOW, August 19, Andrey Mikhailov. In a conversation with, the goalkeeper of Voronezh Fakel Vitaly Gudiev called Moscow Spartak and St. Petersburg Zenit comparable teams, noting that the «red-whites» are capable of competing with the current Russian football champion.
On Sunday, Fakel lost away to Spartak (0:3) in the fifth round of the Russian Premier League (RPL). Earlier, the team lost to Zenit with the same score in the group stage of the RPL Russian Cup. At the start of the season, the Voronezh team lost six out of seven matches.
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«Spartak» and «Zenit» are the most difficult opponents. They played similarly — they have fast, speedy players. They play great. It was also difficult to play against «Krasnodar», but they got a point there. «Spartak» and «Zenit» impressed,» Gudiyev said.
«Based on the matches we played, «Spartak» and «Zenit» are comparable. I think «Spartak» can compete with «Zenit». But the championship has just begun, we'll see. We have our own tasks, we need to solve them,» he noted.