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Zenit St. Petersburg’s Aleksandr Anyukov captured the lead in the FTBL ranking of Russian defenders as his side defeated CSKA Moscow 2:0 in Russian Premier League action yesterday.

Edin Dzeko, the man whose prolific goalscoring catapulted once modest Wolfsburg to the glory of the Bundesliga title last season and for a long time ruled in the FTBL World Ranking of strikers, will be handed an opportunity to regain lost ground, rating-wise,

CSKA Moscow’s Sergei Ignashevich (pictured second from the left) scored one of the goals in Russia’s 3:1 win over Wales in World Cup 2010 qualifying on Wednesday, boosting his overall FTBL rating by 15.63 points and firming his grip on the top spot of

German Bundesliga side Stuttgart have reportedly switched interest from CSKA Moscow’s Brazilian striker Vagner Love to Zenith’s Pavel Pogrebnyak, as they reckon the Russian international would cost them far less: Pogrebnyak is under contract with the

As CSKA Moscow lost 1:2 to Spartak Moscow in one of the most charged derbies in the Russian Premier League, Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev lost his top spot in the FTBL ranking to his rival from Spartak, Croatian Stipe Pletikosa