Turkmenistan Football Championship. 11 round. "Energetik defeated Nebitchi 5:1

May 27 started the 11th round of the Championship of Turkmenistan.

In Mary, local Energetik met with Balkanabad's Nebitchi at the stadium of the same name. The Mary team took to the field with a series of five defeats, but by the match against the "oilmen" Rakhmangula Bayliev's team rehabilitated itself and defeated the opponent with the score 5 : 1.

- In the past five matches we also wanted to win, but luck was not on our sideRakhmet Shermetov, a player of Energetik, told Arzuw.news after the match. - Today there was a great desire to win, we united into one single fist, and it brought us victory. The players tried for the sake of the fans, for the club.

Meilis Rizaev, a player of Energetik, opened the scoring in the match in the 22nd minute. A minute later Maksat Atagarryev doubled the advantage of the hosts. In the 45th minute Begli Meredov brought the score to the point of a penalty kick.

Early in the second half, Nebitchi earned an eleven-meter kick and successfully converted it, cutting the lead to one.

- For the second part of the game the head coach instructed us to play to keep the result, so the opponents had a couple of chances, one of which they realized. After conceding the goal, we realized that we needed to show the game that we showed in the first half, - Shermetov notes.

In the 72nd minute, Muhammed Astanov scored the fourth goal with an accurate shot from outside the penalty area, and three minutes later Shermetov himself scored, setting the match point. Having won, Energetik continues to stay in the eighth place with eight points. "Nebitchi" is located one line higher with nine points.

In a parallel match, Ashgabat and Merv shared points - 1:1. After the draw, the capital club with 16 points moved up to third place, while the Mary team retains the sixth place with 13 points.

The eleventh round continued on May 28 with two matches: "Kopetdag" in the Ashgabat derby lost to "Altyn Asyr" with a score of 2:1, "Akhal" beat Turkmenbashi "Shagadam" with a similar result.

Thus, after the end of the eleventh round, the leader of the tournament remains "Altyn Asyr", which earned 21 points. In second place with a similar number of points is "Akhal", behind the "communicators" only by additional indicators.