CSKA suffered a defeat from Rubin after two errors by debutant goalkeeper Ilya Pomazun.
Pomazun instead of Akinfeev
It is already known that CSKA number one Igor Akinfeev will miss several of the team’s next matches due to injury. Therefore, for the game with Rubin, young Ilya Pomazun took his place in goal. The 20-year-old goalkeeper played his first match at the adult level. Before that, he only played for the CSKA youth team, and tried himself in the youth Champions League. Of course, Pomazun took part in the pre-season matches of the first team, but never played a single official game at the senior level.
Before the starting whistle, the army fans unanimously supported the young debutant with a charge of “Pomazun Ilya!” True, Ilya was somehow completely unlucky with his debut. He missed a goal in the second minute. The fault, of course, is not only the inexperienced goalkeeper. CSKA concedes once again after a set piece. After the corner kick, the army team did not have time to quickly clear the ball from the penalty area, and Zhonatas was the first to reach it.
Rubin, inspired by the excellent start to the match, continued to attack. And ten minutes later he again brought his Brazilian scorer to the striking position. Zhonatas easily launched the ball into the corner closest to Pomazun. An obvious mistake by an inexperienced goalkeeper. I wonder what is more in this mistake - nerves, or a lack of a high level of training. And will they bet on Pomazun in the next game? After conceding two goals, Ilya looked warily at each approaching attack from the guests. From a distance it was not visible whether Pomazun’s knees were shaking, but it seemed that everything was so. So the main question of the match is whether Zhonatas blocked the young goalkeeper’s path to the starting lineup with his goals.
Shchennikov's first goal
CSKA continues to rotate in every match. It’s hard to imagine how you can change the lineup, which already doesn’t have enough performers. But Goncharenko succeeds. Rotation, of course, is minimal. And it mainly affects two positions - striker and central defender. Periodically, the main star of the team, Vitinho, as well as Vasin and the Berezutsky brothers, are given a short rest. This time only Vasin remained in reserve. But his absence had no effect on the number of mistakes in defense. However, after 0:2 by the tenth minute of the match, the army team did not panic. Moreover, a miracle happened - Georgy Shchennikov scored his first goal for CSKA. The defender opened up in time for Vitinho's perfect pass. After that, all he had to do was outwit Ryzhikov, which was done.
All events with three goals fit into 13 minutes of the first half, after which the opponents slowed down a little. CSKA tried to win back, and Rubin went on the defensive, it seemed that the Kazan team was tired.
Restructuring of Rubin. Continuation
CSKA midfielder Alan Dzagoev assured before the match that we would see Kurban Berdyev’s “Rubin” in all its glory by the seventh, or even the tenth, round. For now, the Kazan team has plenty of weak points. And one of them is still defense. The Bauer-Granat-Kudryashov combination is already the fourth in the four opening matches of the season. To some extent, injuries contributed to this rotation. But so far none of these combinations have played without conceding goals. Although it is necessary to take into account the level of the opponents of the rebuilt Rubin. The games with Krasnodar and Zenit are behind us, and Lokomotiv is next in line. It is possible that in the next match we will see another combination of three central defenders - Rubin hired ex-Krasnodar Ragnar Sigurdsson. Before the game with CSKA, Berdyev did not rule out the player’s appearance in the starting lineup. As a result, the defender was not even on the roster, although he arrived with the team for the match.
But it’s okay, we managed without the Icelander. With great difficulty and suffering. With beautiful counterattacks and unscored chances for Azmun and Karadeniz in the second half. And with the help of sometimes almost imperceptible, and sometimes not very beautiful delays in time, to which CSKA fans reacted angrily.
Rubin wins for the second time in a row, and CSKA suffers its second defeat in four matches.
On August 6, 2017, a new goalkeeper appeared in the CSKA goal. The place of Igor Akinfeev, who has been the number one of the army team for 14 years, has been taken by 20-year-old Ilya Pomazun..
Ilya comes from a goalkeeper football family. His father Alexander Pomazun in the 90s defended the colors of Spartak, Kharkov Metalist, Saturn, Baltika, Torpedo-ZIL and many other clubs in the major and first leagues. In 1990, Pomazun Sr. won the U18 European Youth Championship as a member of the USSR national team, being its first number, and was also involved in the Ukrainian national team.
Ilya was born in Kaliningrad in 1996, where his father was then playing. Pomazun Jr. began his acquaintance with football at the Torpedo-ZIL school (aka FC Moscow), but after 5 years he moved to CSKA, so he can be considered a full-fledged student of the army team.
At the age of 15, Pomazun made his debut in the CSKA youth team, sat on the bench behind 16-year-old Revyakin in the first army team and suffered a severe rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee. In the fall of 2013, he began training with the red-blue team, but played his first match for the first team only 4 years later. It is curious that while still a goalkeeper for the FC Moscow children's team, Pomazun scored a free kick against Spartak Moscow.
Before the start of the 2017/18 season, Ilya sewed the first number onto the goalkeeper’s jersey, which previously belonged to Sergei Chepchugov, who had left for Yenisei, and after Igor Akinfeev’s injury, he made his debut in the Russian Championship in a meeting with AEK. Pomazun's first match turned out to be simply terrible - already by the 10th minute of the match he made two unforgivable mistakes. In the 2nd minute of the meeting with Rubin, he dropped the ball after a corner kick, and 8 minutes later he missed it into the near corner. Both times Pomazun upset Zhonatas, and CSKA lost that evening 1:2.
Former Spartak striker and now football expert Valery Reingold assessed the young goalkeeper’s play quite harshly:
— The goalkeeper’s role is as follows: you help or you ruin. Today he messed up. Young guy, 20 years old, don’t bet. Let the administrator stand at the gate. Pomazun came out twitchy, no experience, no character either.
A couple of days later, in the game against Tosno, Pomazun missed again, but this time the goalkeeper’s mistake was not so obvious and did not affect the result.
Although the guy looks decent in training
His idols are Igor Akinfeev and Manuel Neuer, although in other interviews he said that in terms of playing style he equals Casillas and Joe Hart. Although outwardly, of course, he looks more like David De Gea.
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