Opening

"We know how to throw long throw-ins, so we throw them." Talalaev said it last season and repeated it after this match. CSKA had surely prepared for it. It did not help.

35th second: Beveev launches a throw into the six-yard box, Gassama — a centre-back who has come up into the final third as if for a corner — wins the header and lays it off to Offor. The Nigerian has a metre to go. From a metre he usually does not miss.