CSKA Moscow defeated newly-promoted Sibir...
other two games, a 72nd minute scrambled goal from Dynamo Moscow"s Moldavian midfielder Alexandru Epureanu gave the Muscovites all three points against Moscow Region club Saturn. The win lifts Dynamo into seventh place.Another Moscow club, Lokomotiv, beat west Siberia"s Tom Tomsk 2-1 in the Russian capital, goals from Denis Glushakov and Ukraine"s Oleksandr Aliev, his sixth in as many games, giving the Railwaymen a two-goal advantage before Sergei Kornilenko made things tense with a late strike.
Lokomotiv are now fifth, while Tomsk drop to ninth.
Saturday"s Results
Sibir 1-4 CSKA Moscow
Dynamo Moscow 1-0 Saturn
Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 Tom Tomsk
Table (six games unless stated)
CSKA Moscow - 14
Spartak Nalchik - 14
Rubin - 12
Zenit St. Petersburg 11 (five games)
Lokomotiv Moscow 10 (seven games)
Rostov - 10
Dynamo Moscow - 9(seven games)
Spartak Moscow - 9