Good weekend

Alexander Prudnikov
Spartak teenager from B-squad was late substitute and became a winning goal scorer. Prudnikov nicknamed Elephant (Slon) for his physique and he’s one of the best young players in the world. He was completely amazing at Meridian Cup in Barcelona. Here is one of his greatest goals for Europe U-18.

Denis Kiselev
Tom striker powered two in six minutes to equalize from 0:2 against FC Rostov. Maybe it’s all because of Tomsk website announced his cellular number for fans SMS. Kiselev’s nickname is Kisa (brief version of surname but also means little kitten). Well, he can call himself even a Mickey Mouse – the fact is that SMS helps him to score!

Timofey Kalachev
Speedy pace and crazy shot from wide angle – just watch it.

Bad weekend

Lokomotiv Moscow
Railmen lost three in a row, all to neighbor/enemy Moscow teams. If you like chess like Loko coach did, it’s obvious that they need to stop give figures and take something instead.

Saturn Ramenskoe
Got only one point in two home matches. Saturn caught a draw against Krylya Sovetov Samara with Kirichenko equalized on last minute. Now Aliens have 3 draws – more than others as usual. Last season they drawn 18 times and finished 11th so now they can beat themselves.

Spartak Moscow
Won the very principal away derby against Zenit. That was really Saint Petersburg versus Moscow clash and Muscovites suddenly crushed home side by three goals in first half. Juicy was the fact that first was scored by Spartak charismatic leader and captain Egor Titov (video below). And second by Saint Petersburg refugee Vladimir Bystrov, who left Zenit for Spartak last season. He earned a penalty and scored – be sure he would never even try to kick from the spot in another match!

CSKA Brazilians
Ramon and Vagner Love of CSKA score early and late goals to mine a win in Moscow derby against Lokomotiv. These teams strongly argued for first place few years ago and CSKA couldn’t beat Loko for 3 seasons. Now their time has come.

Rubin Kazan
Team from Tatarstan moved from last place thanks to home win against Premier League debutant FC Khimki. Rubin has disadvantage on the way but found time to overtake – winner was scored on last minute.

Ricardo Jesus
Spartak Nalchik forward scored twice against Kuban Krasnodar in South derby. It’s really easier for Brazilian to adopt there, in (comparatively) hot climate.

Bad Weekend

Alexey Rebko
Close before his first national team call, Spartak young midfielder was attacked by hooligans in subway. They broke his jaw and he missed the game. Now he recovered and was put in Spartak start XI but shortly got first yellow card for wearing necklace and second for obstructing opponent. What a kindergarden.

Pavel Pogrebnyak
He’s the man who really hates Spartak and ready for anything in this case. Pogrebnyak even pushed away his teammate to score by himself. But it was the only Zenit goal – his team lost and he was sent off for elbowing opponent.

Leonid Slutskiy
Coach of FC Moscow was the triumphant of principal “manager derby” vs Tom Tomsk (read more here). FC Moscow lost their best striker but Slutskiy bet on young forward Roman Adamov and won: he scored twice. Lucky “Russian Mourinho” Slutskiy!

Alexander Gorshkov
He was a hero yesterday, sending cryptic insult to fans; he became a hero once more. Gorshkov participated in three away goals that Zenit Saint Petersburg has scored.

Andrey Tikhonov
Legendary ex-Spartak player and now-leader of Premier League debutant FC Khimki scored from free kick and led his team to first win. And started a blog – first ever for any Russian football player.

Lokomotiv’ scouts
Scouting service of Lokomotiv Moscow signed Romanian forward Razvan Cocis and Brazilian defender Rodolfo. Both scored in first Lokomotiv home winning match.

Bad weekend

Yuriy Klyuchnikov
Referee from Rostov-upon-Don gave a very doubtful penalty kick. Video spots the evidence. Thanks to Kluchnikov, Luch-Energiya got a rare away win and increased number of strange penalty decisions called “Luchpenalty” (yeah, in one word).

Good weekend

FC Moskva
Won the very first match of Premier League at Far East against Luch-Energiya. Vladivostok fans cleaned the pitch for Argentinian Hector Bracamonte who scored ultimate first goal of the season. Last season Luch-Energiya lost in Vladivostok only twice. Now it’s just one slot left.

Igor Shevchenko
Youngster from Samara shot a wonderful left-footed strike to secure Krylya Sovetov dominance over FC Khimki. Unlike another Shevchenko, he did well this weekend.