http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vyacheslav-Malafeev-c36502 has refused to speak more about the internal matters of the Russian Premier League club and has analyzed their latest draw against CSKA Moscow at home
Zenit St. Petersburg dropped down to the 3rd spot on the Russian Premier League table after claiming a hard fought 1-1 draw against CSKA Moscow at Petrovsky stadium on Monday afternoon.
The St. Petersburg club were left robbed after http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rasmus-Elm-c30628 scored a late equalizer from the penalty spot to cancel out Renat Yanbaev’s opener.
And while some senior football analysts were expecting Luciano Spalletti to name Vyacheslav Malafeev as the Russian outfit’s new captain, the Italian tactician handed the arm band to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Danny-c10193 Miguel prior to the much anticipated match.
The management of the club decided to announce a new captain in order to take the leading role back from controversy-hit http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Igor-Denisov-c16694.
The 26-year-old midfielder, who was handed the captain’s armband ever since the start of the ongoing campaign, indulged himself in deep trouble after demanding the management to increase his salary to match with the multimillionaire
signing, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Hulk-c16436.
Consequently, he was penalized by the first team manager to train with the youth-team for more than a month.
And while many have questioned Spalletti’s decision to select a foreign player as the team captain ahead of some senior Russian players in the squad, Malafeev has remained tight-lipped to answer any of the questions after saying
that it is an internal matter of the team.
Speaking on their latest draw against the Moscow-based club at home, Malafeev admitted that his side was unfortunate not to claim all three points after conceding a late equalizer on Monday.
“We completely controlled the meeting from the beginning to the end of the match but we lacked luck. Our team has played professionally and had a good chance to achieve a positive result if they would have kept their nerves until
the final whistle of the match," The UEFA Cup winner was quoted as saying.
The defending league champions have now dropped down to the 3rd spot on the league table and they now trail the league leader by 6 points.
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