Watch the Top 3 goals of Gameweek 1 of the Russian Premier League as picked by The Sport Express daily. Find the videos here.
FC Lokomotiv gets away with three points from Saransk after a 1-0 victory against FC Mordovia.
FC Krasnodar beat FC Amkar 1-0 with an incisive long shot late in the game to score 3 points in its first games of the Premier League’s new season.
Spartak was lucky to avoid a loss in its first match of the new season under a new coach.
The red and white machine had a 2-2 draw against Ufa led by Igor Kolyvanov, a top striker in Russian football.
Below are the results of the other games
Spartak 2-2 Ufa
Rostov 1-1 Terek
Amkar 0-1 Krasnodar
Anzhi 0-1 Krylya Sovetov
Mordovia 0-1 Lokomotiv Moscow
CSKA Moscow 1-0 Rubin
Kuban 0-2 Ural
Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 Dynamo Moscow
Author: Mikhail Vesely