The Germans derailed the Russian locomotive. Russian Railways team loses millions, coaches and points in Europe and RPL
Football “Locomotive»At home in Cherkizovo contrived in the 17th round RPL lose to the outsider of the championship in Yekaterinburg “Ural“. The red-greens cannot win from 4, and out of the seven meetings held, they lost in four. The decline in the game is directly related to the intra-club situation, which arose almost from scratch, but clearly influenced the players and the coaching staff. Ahead of the red-green voyage in France to the Marseilles “Olympic»And debriefing in the outlined obviously difficult and problematic period in the game of railroad workers. But one thing can be said already now: the seasonal club and the favorite brainchild of Russian Railways will most likely fail. Who is to blame and what the Germans have to do with it, Vgudok found out from the experts.
You can analyze the home game of Loko against Ural using just one sentence: 40th minute, earned penalty, which is realized by the Hornets. Prior to that, both teams rolled the ball equally dejectedly. During the break, the fans of the red-greens could rejoice for the female squad of the club. The girls confidently scored a double, having won the cup and gold medals Super League 2021…
After well-deserved congratulations, the second half began. Loko added, Ural defended the goal and not the most comfortable, but winning score. The railroad workers managed to grab the red card in 45 minutes and remain in the minority. “Distinguished” Tin Hedway… Of the pluses – two crossbeams, on which the red-green ones were punched. But in the end they never hit the target. Bottom line: the Urals team have hooked three points at once in the away match. Loko slipped down to the sixth line in the standings.
Obviously, there is a strong regression in the game of the once strongest RPL team. And it is connected not least with those perturbations that took place in the club in a matter of days, if not hours. Invited to build a new strategy German specialist Ralph Rangnickwhere sponsors from Russian Railways pumped tens of millions of euros into a bloated headquarters and rich transfers, left the club. Put your coach in a club with a dozen compatriots (in all possible positions), put your coach Markus Gizdol, and at the same time grab the salary due to the contract.
Then Ralph sped off to Foggy Albion as the head coach of the legendary Manchester United.
Such drastic changes in such a short period of time could not have a positive effect on the players’ mood. As a result – seven consecutive meetings without victories… The loss to not the top teams of the Premier League stands out in them: “Arsenal“Almost devastating – 1: 3, well,” Ural “at home.
It seems that Lokomotiv continues to reap the benefits of the coach change. The departure of one specialist and the arrival of a new person who builds the game and understands the details, how to talk to the players so that they progress and not be subject to recessions, the choice of tactical details – all this together is serious work, vgudok. lump Match TV commentator Alexander Shmurnov…
“It’s strange that our leader, with Fedun’s firm hand, decided that the coach is 10%. But this is not the case. Concrete coaching is very serious. When a coach who works within a different framework, realities, changes in a fundamental way, the players are knocked out of a rut. They do not know their tasks, they lose the basis and this becomes the reason that the same players, who could show something two months ago, now stop doing it.
The general sense of the future is incomprehensible. What team do you play for, why did you buy the club, what is the new policy? – the expert is sure. – People stop playing at their strength. As a result, the team looks like a set of players, in which everyone is on his own. Plus, everyone is still not in optimal condition.
This will continue until the break. Maybe Loko will be able to do something with the bloodless Ufa. But in a new way, the red-greens will not have life. Gizdol will have to win some respect from the players and conduct training camps so that he becomes the main “uncle”. Football players do not play without a coach, a person who explains the details to them.
If this happens, the season can still be saved, because Loko’s roster is normal. If neither Rangnick’s people from a sports point of view, nor Gizdol’s from the coach’s point of view, add, make the whole game system and control system more understandable for the players, most likely this season will be ruined. “
A long-term conceptual project has never worked in Russian football. Why he had to work in Lokomotiv – not a single prerequisite for this, he told vgudok.com Match TV commentator Timur Zhuravel…
“Russian Railways decided to reboot the project called Lokomotiv. They needed a very catchy presentation. Under it, apparently for some recommendation, the name of the dude Rangnick is called. Plus, someone upstairs was told that it was just super. Rangnik, in turn, realized that he was dealing with a “country of the third level”, as is often the case for Russia of the world by experts of this level. And a little “relaxed” did something. It is enough to look at his press conference, which, incidentally, happened a few months after his appointment in Moscow. On it, he said nothing. And he was appointed to “Manchester”, he had a meeting with journalists at nine in the morning, on the second day of his stay in the city.
A very revealing difference in attitude, isn’t it?
In general, Rangnik saw Russia as a transit point, an opportunity to earn money and find jobs for his friends. And Russian Railways used the situation as some kind of loud presentation upstairs with a billboard with the heading “reset”. It didn’t really have any understandable end point, it fell apart on the go. A shameful situation for people from the holding, from whom a person took and dumped at the first opportunity.
This is the only way to assess it, although some optimists will say that Rangnick has launched an interesting process. But it seems to me that not a single process of such a level, with such claims, has ever been implemented. And from what lada it should suddenly work? “- our interlocutor asks a fair question…
The locomotive is very took a big risk this offseason, putting the project under the direction of Ralph Rangnick. Now we are using the example of what became the head coach “MJ“, Character of what level he is and how much is quoted in Europe… Yesterday he was in Of Russia, and now he is in charge of “Manchester United“. And then Loko. It is clear that on a scale these are disparate projects for a German. Probably, the management of the red-green risks, the rate on the Rangnik project in the summer, should have been weighed.
Or, at the very least, require Ralph to do his best on that short summer-fall stretch while Rangnick was at the club, vgudok.com told vgudok.com Match TV commentator Dmitry Derunets…
“In fact, the German specialist parted with Nikolic rather quickly, appointed his head coach and a large number of assistants. Plus, he tried to change the system of work in the children’s and youth school of railway workers. After that he leaves Loko and, of course, is not going to be involved in the club now. We can say that whoever has become a project manager after Rangnick is completely different. Ralph is the brain, authority, project leader, the expert is sure. – Now, without him, Lokomotiv is threatened with very serious failures in terms of both the game and the prospects. Because a lot of money was spent in the summer. And in fact, there is no one to be responsible for the project.
Moreover, there is no clear play from the Gizdol team. Perhaps Marcus hoped that he would work in conjunction with Rangnick, obey his advice. Now the head coach’s team does not obey at all. If under Nikolic it was possible to ask questions about the quality of football, but still there was a result, then Gizdol now has neither football nor a result. Loko was famous for its character, gave results even in borderline situations, earned points. There is absolutely nothing now.
This is definitely a bad time for the Red-Green leadership.
Without Rangnik, the entire Lokomotiv transformation project in a modern European club could be in jeopardy. As a result, you will have to start everything almost from the very beginning. The railroad workers are just rolling over this year. Apathy among the fans in the stands. Probably, Gizdol will not be fired right now. I think that Loko didn’t have to arrange another revolution after such an attempt in the summer. Or those who make personnel decisions will suffer: Vladimir Leonchenko, Alexander Plutnik, that is, the authority of the club here and now. “
Ahead of the charges of Marcus Gizdol are a trip to France and on December 9 a meeting with Olympique Marseille. If the railroad workers beat one of the leaders League 1, the brainchild of Russian Railways will slip into the Eurospring and take part in League of Conferences… In the case of Europe, it will be possible to say goodbye indefinitely.
But to do it differently, like Ralph Rangnick, who just flew away on British Islesleaving his comrades in a heavily skidded locomotive. But somehow differently. How exactly is up to the railway curators of the club. Examples of samurai atonement come to mind.
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Ivan Afanasiev