Today, September 9, the match between Sochi and Dynamo at the Fisht Stadium kicked off the 9th round of the Russian Premier League (RPL). The meeting, which ended in a 2:1 victory for the home team, was officiated by a referee team led by Kirill Levnikov from St. Petersburg. “Championship” held a text online broadcast match.
In the 6th minute, Sochi striker Georgy Melkadze opened the scoring, responding to Nikita Burmistrov’s pass. Four minutes later, midfielder Christian Noboa scored, scoring his seventh goal in nine RPL matches: Melkadze completed the pass to Makarchuk, he gently sent the ball to Noboa, and Christian burst into the penalty area and from its central part technically hit the bottom under the bar! In the 40th minute, Denis Makarov scored, robbed Soslan Dzhanaev, who was bringing in the ball.
Sochi scored 16 points and went to the fourth line of the RPL standings, moving Dynamo one position with the same number of points.
Andrey Vereteshkin and Roman Milyuchenko (both from St. Petersburg) helped Levnikov. Fourth referee – Ranel Ziyakov (Naberezhnye Chelny). The VAR judge was Evgeny Kukulyak (Kaluga), his assistant was Yegor Bolkhovitin (Leningrad region).