The final whistle at the Rostec Arena sounds in a silence this place has never heard before. Not an angry one — a bewildered one. 26,758 spectators watched a defeat that somehow didn't feel like an ordinary 1:2 against Spartak.
Three days earlier in the preview I wrote plainly: "let Umyarov and Jedson have the ball, but not Barco and Marquinhos in good positions." Barco didn't play. Marquinhos played 89 minutes — and both Spartak goals went through him.
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