One More Victory of Locomotive, Visiting Chikhura

After beating the current champion, Locomotive Tbilisi triumphed over the current owner of Georgian Cup as well. On May 26^th, Lasha Chaghiashvili’s team defeated Chikhura 1-3 in Ivantsminda.

After the match against Torpedo, Loco’s head coach has not made any change in the main composition. After 11 months long pause, Rati Ardazishvili is back in the record, who had suffered a terrible trauma.

The footballers suggested a spectacular performance in the match, with attacks from the both side and  goals as well. The score was opened at the 4^th minute by the former member of Loco, Irakli Bughridze, gaining preference for his team.

Loco could have equalized the score soon after. Teimuraz Shonia’s distant shot was repelled by Dino Hamzić and it hit the post afterwards.

In a few minutes, Mamia Gavashelishvilli had a good chance to score, but his shot turned out to be inaccurate.

At the 36^th minute, after the effort made by Davit Ubilava, followed with pass from his side, the ball was sent to the door from the penalty area with a header by Teimuraz Shonia and thus the score was equalized.

Loco started the second half very actively and gained an absolute superiority. Davit Jiqia and Mamia Gavashelishvili missed their chances to score, they lacked accuracy in the culminating phase.

At the 59^th minute, after Otar Kobakhidze’s wonderful dribbling, the ball was received by Gavashelishvili in the penalty area and he was left face to face with a goalkeeper. Mamia was outclassed by Hamzić, however, Ubilava managed to repel everyone and thus gained superiority for Locomotive.

A minute earlier of this moment, the injured Shonia was substituted by Lasha Gvalia, After the goal, in a few minutes, instead of Kobakhidze, Rezi Injgia joined the team, who had had a debut match against Dinamo .

Chaghiashvili carried out the last substitution at the 80^th minute, Dachi Tsnobiladze was replaced by Luka Kikabidze. Chikhura had an attempt to equalize the score in the last minutes and they ventured with great effort to attack, but this became an opportunity for Loco to carry out counter strikes.

At the 78^th minute, the host team could have equalized the score, after Irakli Leqvtadze’s shot, Nika Chanturia sent the ball out of the opponent’s line. After this episode, Loco’s number 4 came to need the medical help.

During the compensated time of the match, Rezi Injgia outclassed the defender of Sachkhere, Megrelishvili and targeted at Jikia in the penalty area. The latter scored with only one touch and thus fixied the final score of the game.

After 13 tours, Locomotive possess 14 points and occupy the 7^th place. The following match is panned against Saburtalo, on June 10^th.

Locomotive: Sherozia, Ubilava (c), Lobzhanidze, N. Chanturia, Gabadze, Shonia (Gvalia 58), Dzebniauri, Kikabidze (Tsnobiladze 80), Gavashelishvili, Kobakhidze (Injgia 70), Jikia
Head Coach: Lasha Chaghiashvili

Yellow Card: Dzebniauri (38), Lobzhanidze (71), Jiკia (84)
Referee: A. Nonikashvili