Who is able to stop “Berkut”?

February 5^th. Sports complex “Meshchersky”. Probably, something absolutely incredible should have happened for “Berkut” to lose points in the match against “BCR-motors”.  This season “Berkut” “splits” its opponents that are of a weaker level. And in general, many matches of the Premier League of 2014-2015 seem to be predictable even before they start: the score as well as duration of the match tell us that we haven’t been mistaken. So it has been this time.

But on the other hand, it is difficult to resist “Berkut”. The team almost doesn’t have weak points – and it plays without emotional breakdowns and there is a feeling that always by 70 percent of its capacity, keeping serious trumps in the sleeve. The only much where they had to show all 100 percent is a skirmish with the “Vertex” team, and there, apparently, they failed to do it. But there is a second-round match, which will decide in many respects who takes the first place. If “Vertex” doesn’t make mistakes before, playing a romantic football. The match started without delay – Kirillov had a favorable moment, and he was only one step back from a goal. After several threats from the “Berkut” team, “BCR-motors” were able a little to equalize the game, and even began to attack. However, it didn’t result in blows. “Berkut” created danger near their own gates, two minutes rolling the ball on the opponent’s half of the field, and then, forgetting that, gave the ball back to the goalkeeper Adyasov. But a free kick from the penalty area didn’t bring a goal to “BCR-motors”. And two throws by Katalov-Shishulin, with a pass to the flank and return of the ball one step back led to a goal – Shishulin scored. “BCR-motors” a little equalized the game again and it seemed that it could align the score, but Bystritsky interfered in the case, making the intrigue of the match more deceptive at the second attempt. After that “Berkut” was keeping the ball for a long time, but without much danger. But the audience hasn’t longed last hits and cool attacks from “BCR-motors”. By the end of the half the score has been devastating – Semenov caught a favorable moment in the midfield and made the score of 3-0. And before that Katalov could score as well as Gubko…

The second half was important, perhaps, only for the difference of scored and missed goals. If “BCR-motors” scored first, it would be possible to speak about some intrigue. But “It was “Berkut” which scored – Rodin and Semenov pushed the ball into the gate for two after the phenomenal pass of Bystritsky. Nevertheless “BCR-motors” scored its goal after a pass from the flank and shot into the center, but the parity was restored quickly by Kirillov and Kubyshkin – 5-1. After that “Berkut” played just for pleasure, trying, if possible, to fill up its goal account. First Bystritsky missed almost  point-blank, and then gave a goal pass to Gubko. Then Bystritsky himself performed his “solo” – ran away from everyone in the middle of the field and scored accurately and strongly. Andrianov made the score of 7-2, but Semenov and Dmitriev brought the score of the match to 9-2, putting themselves another defeat in their treasury.