On Wednesday in Kazan "Rubin "in the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Russian Cup lost to Moscow" Lokomotiv " with the score 0:1. In the first match, the railwaymen beat the Kazan team with the same score and the sum of the two matches reached the semifinals.
Rubin held a meeting with Loko without a number of players from the first team. On Saturday, the Kazan team will have a guest meeting with CSKA, so the coaching staff headed by Kurban Berdyev used rotation and left out of the application for the match players such as Dmitry Poloz, Igor Konovalov, Alexander Bukharov, Vyacheslav Podberezkin, Ibrahim Tsallagov... Instead of experienced players on the field in the match with Lokomotiv, several young players came out. Among them are students of the Volga Academy freshmen Danil Stepanov and rail Abdullin. For both, this is the second time on the field in the "Rubin" this season. In December, in the match of the 17th round of the championship RPL both took part in the victorious match against Zenit in St. Petersburg. Both regularly get into the application of the main team for the championship matches.
It is worth noting that on Wednesday in a match with "the Locomotive" rail Abdullin and Danil Stepanov has played in a full match without substitutions.
- The guys played adequately, -said the head of the Department of theory and methodology of football and hockey Volga region Academy Valery Potanino. - It is evident that both with a good pass, trained. The responsibility they have been given a huge, and sometimes it is seen that not quite cope with the anxiety. But still good. With a three-center back scheme, they have to do a huge amount of work when playing fullbacks. And to support the attack, and have time to return to defense.  But they were generally successful. We also had Mikhail Yakovlev in this match in reserve. I would like, of course, to see him in the game for the main team. And here Adil Mukhametzyanov this spring in structure doesn't pass yet. No match with "Ahmad" or the "Locomotive" in the application he was not. I want to note that there are more students of the Academy in Rubin. Ruslan Gavrilov from Rubin-2 was transferred to the youth team. Plus, Daniil Rybakov, who came to study at the Academy from Udmurtia, was invited by the coach of the "youth" Roman Sharonov to gather the team for viewing.