Movsisyan scored in the first match for "Spartak"

In the second control match at the UAE «Spartak» won over a local club "Al Dhafra" with a score of 2:0.

This control game was the debut of a “Spartak” newcomer Salvatore Bocchetti who was released in the starting team. Head coach Valery Karpin firstly decided to test the Italian not in the center of defense but at the position of a defending center midfielder. Bocchetti stepped on the field wearing number 26 and made a pair with Rafael Carioca. Also to note, in the defense Makeev located on the right wing while Kirill Kombarov replaced his twin brother, who had departed to the Russian national team, located on the left. There were no Suchy and Källström who had departed to the Czech and Swedish national teams.

In a break eight new players in white and red shirts entered the field. Thus Bocchetti went down to the position of a center defender in a pair with Pareja while tall Putsko located on the right wing of defense. The rest took their usual places. Forwards Waris, Kozlov and Movsisyan, as it was planned, spent about half an hour each, and Kirill Kombarov and Jurado even were inversely substituted.

At the beginning of the second half Kozlov shot from the distance and the ball whizzed close to the pole. But soon a young “Spartak" forward created the first goal: he broke with the ball to the front line and correctly passed it a bit back to opened Bilyaletdinov - Diniyar shot from air accurately and powerfully - 1:0.

The second goal of the match was scored by a “Spartak” newcomer Yura Movsisyan. Forward of Armenian national team finished with a well-aimed shot from the penalty zone a combination in which Bilyaletdinov and Kirill Kombarov, who was back to the right wing after a break, participated. At the end of the game Movsisyan could draw a double, but his shot was saved by jumped out of the gate “Al Dhafra" goalkeeper. Yura also received a little injury, but after the timely medical assistance from our physician Mikhail Vartapetov he returned to the field to hear the final whistle by a referee, the “Spartak” official site says.

«Al Dhafra» (UAE) - «Spratak» - 0:2 (0:0)

Goal: 0:1 Bilyaletdinov (Kozlov) (55). 0:2 Movsisyan (Bilyaletdinov, K. Kombarov) (81).

"Spartak": Rebrov (Pesyakov, 46), Makeev (Putsko, 46), Pareja (K. Kombarov, 74), Insaurralde (Zubarev, 46), K. Kombarov (Fadeev, 46), Bocchetti (Zubarev, 46), Rafael Carioca (Jurado 74), Ari (Bilyaletdinov 46), Jurado (Yakovlev, 46), Dziuba (k) (Obukhov, 46), Waris (Kozlov, 30, Movsisyan, 62).

Abu Dhabi. Stadium "Sheikh Zayed". 04.02.

«Spartak” head coach Valery Karpin commented on the friendly match against the club "Al Dhafra" (UAE), in which the Red-Whites won - 2:0.

—    What task did the team get for the game?

— To implement on the field what we worked on at the recent trainings. If in the first game we did it better in the first half, now we did it in the second. First of all we paid attention to the game in defense.

—    Some football players got more playing time. What is the reason?

—    Unfortunately, illness of others. On the day of the last game Bryzgalov was ill, now, on the day of the game again, Kutepov… We expected to have 20 players who will evenly substitute each other.

—    In the second half there was a strange situation with reverse replacements...

—    Firstly, before the game started, we were informed that they are allowed. Then the referee said “no” somehow. But finally we managed to convince the referee to make reverse replacements.

—    How is Kayumov who did not play today?

—    He felt pain in in the hip after 90 minutes that he spent in the last game so we made a little break for him. Nothing serious: tomorrow Dima must be back to the common group.