Akron Togliatti secures 2‑1 victory over Lokomotiv Moscow on Tuesday

MOSCOW (Interstat) — Akron Togliatti beat host Lokomotiv Moscow 2-1 on Tuesday. Milutin Vidosavljevic, Khetag Khosonov and Artem Shumansky were among Akron’s key performers. Vidosavljevic and Khosonov played the full 90 minutes, Shumansky played 64 minutes, Sergey Pinyaev played 44 minutes and was booked, and Dmirtiy Pestryakov played two minutes. Shumansky scored in the 61st minute after Pinyaev gave Lokomotiv the lead in the 48th. Yellow cards were shown to Lokomotiv’s Z. Bakaev, Pinyaev and G. Dzhikiya and Akron’s S. Tedic and Y. Rocha. Akron is now 1-0 in the competition and 1-2 across all competitions. Lokomotiv is 0-1 in the competition and 2-1 overall. Akron had lost 1-0 at FK Rostov and 4-0 at Krylya Sovetov. Lokomotiv had beaten Fakel Voronezh 5-0 and Orenburg 2-0. Akron’s substitutions included R. Escoval and K. Arevalo at halftime, Shumansky and N. Bazilevskiy in the 64th, and A. Dmitriev in the 88th. Lokomotiv’s substitutions included C. Montes, V. Rakov and Z. Bakaev at halftime, N. Komlichenko in the 67th and A. Silyanov in the 74th.