Difficult match of "Rubin" with "Liverpool" ends 1: 1

(Kazan City KZN.RU, October 22) "Rubin" played in a draw with a score 1: 1 with "Liverpool" in a match of the 3rd round of the group stage of the UEFA Europe League. President of FC "Rubin" Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin watched over the course of the game. The main events of the match unfolded in the first time. Marko Devic opened the scoring with a beautiful hit in the 15th minute, at the 36th minute our team remained in the minority, and a minute later the hosts scored the ball back.

The teams started the game actively. In the first attack Adam Lallana laid the opponent on the lawn and made a dangerous shot in the penalty area. "Rubin" answered with Marko Devic’s passage, which was stopped tough, but within the rules. Valery Chaly, as it turned out, guessed a hundred percent with the experienced Devic, who has not get enough match practice for a long time. In the 15th minute striker opened the scoring, turning a shield of Oleg Kuzmin in a beautiful ball.

Mentor of the "Liverpool" Jurgen Klopp hardly imagined his debut on the "Anfield" like this. His team rushed to fix the losses, but "Rubin" looked solid and coordinated mechanism at this moment. The owners have created a couple of moments with the help of Kazan residents themselves, who at times could not cope with the excitement and erred in relatively simple situations. Sergey Ryzhikov acted confidently several times at the last line of Kazan residents.

After 33 minutes goalkeeper of "Liverpool" Simon Mignolet has proved that he is not the timid, parrying a powerful blow from Blagoy Georgiev from close range. And three minutes later, there was, perhaps, the key event of the match. Kuzmin was not have time for Emre Gian and was forced to foul, but hardly expected to see a second yellow card.

A moment later Gian locked a transfer at the far post and scored. Just a moment later everything has been turned upside down and "Liverpool" had a huge psychological advantage.

After the break the game design was simplified to the limit. "Liverpool" on the rights of the owner of the field and a favorite, in the most rarely left the opponent’s half of the field with a flurry of attacks.

"Liverpool" violently attacked, driven by the fans, "Rubin" fearlessly defended, and time went on.

"Rubin" achieves a positive result in difficult match, and "Liverpool" played in the Europe League with a score 1: 1 for the third time in a row. In the next round on November 5 wards of Valery Chaly will take "Liverpool" in their own field, the press-service of FC "Rubin" informs.