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Yuri Krasnozhan led his Lokomotiv side into their game against the inconsistent Rubin Kazan heading the table, but ended up looking the worse off of the two teams. Both sides lined up in what were broadly 4-2-3-1 formations, although Cristian Noboa was playing noticeably higher up the pitch for Rubin than the other defensive midfielder Bebars Natkho. The teams started the game in a similar fashion, pressing a lot, which resulted in lots of sloppy mistakes due to the poor pitch. Despite being the less familiar side to the poor playing surface, Rubin were the first to settle into control of possession, although they rarely managed to get far into the Lokomotiv half. Noboa ended up dropping deeper in an attempt to move the ball up the pitch, but they still didn’t look dangerous. Rubin’s more effective way of attacking was hitting long balls forward, with central defender Cesar dropping much deeper in possession to give himself time to hit it long. This didn’t do much to start with, but once Lokomotiv settled in possession, there was more space left in behind them to hit the ball into. Aleksei Medvedev was mostly too slow to take advantage, but it looked [...]
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