MOSCOW, Aug 22, by Oleg Bogatov.CSKA players in every match of the Russian Premier League (RPL) must play from a leadership position if they intend to claim gold medals, said coach Valery Gazzaev, who led the team to win the UEFA Cup and three victories in the Russian championship. CSKA on Sunday in Moscow with a score of 4 :2 won «Akhmat from Grozny. The army team scored 13 points in six rounds and take third place in the standings. Above are the champions of the country in recent years,» Zenit «St. Petersburg (14) and the capital» Spartak «(13). The head coach of the team Vladimir Fedotov came to CSKA in the off-season, last season the Red-Blues finished fifth in the national championship. «The result of the match with Akhmat is natural, especially given the total advantage in the first half. The team dominated during the first half , controlled the ball and created good scoring chances. And in the end it resulted in three goals scored. But I note that Akhmat managed to score a very beautiful goal at the end of the half due to the very high performance skills of the striker (Mohamed) Konate. In the second half, CSKA had an advantage, but did not take much risk. And when he conceded the second goal, the game became tense. Nevertheless, the team brought the match to victory. CSKA played from the first minutes from the leading position, which resulted in the result, «Gazzaev said. some conclusions after 10 rounds, when the picture will be more or less clear, but already now a circle of teams is forming that will claim medals. showed a very good start, but the team needs to keep this level and stabilize the game. CSKA, given the winning traditions and ambitions of the club, must always play from a leadership position. We saw that in the first half of the meeting with “Zenith” the opponent had a big advantage. And in the second, when it was already necessary to recoup, CSKA showed a good game. And if a team wants to fight for the championship, then it must always play from the standpoint of its ambitions and traditions. It is very important. And yesterday, from the very beginning, she played exactly the way CSKA needed,» the agency's interlocutor added.
