Dynamo and Spartak drew in a friendly derby

In their next game at the training camp in Belek, Turkey, the team led by Maxim Zinoviev met with the current champion of the WINLINE Super League, Spartak Moscow. Red and white, like Dynamo, are preparing in Turkey for the start of the new season and are also holding a series of control meetings with future championship rivals.

As in the last meeting with Zenit St. Petersburg, the blue and white again opened the scoring first and did it again in the first half. Only if Anastasia Shlapakova did it then, now another Anastasia is Kovaleva. The Belarusian football player brilliantly performed the "dry leaf" – she took advantage of the incredibly windy weather on the Miracle Football centre field and spun the ball from the corner right into the goal of Spartak goalkeeper Elizaveta Shcherbakova.

Stunned by such audacity of the Dynamo team, the current champions of the league ran to recoup and, admittedly, could have done it even before the break, but the newcomer of this offseason, Dynamo goalkeeper Anastasia Ananyeva reliably defended her gates during this segment, and the new pair of central defenders Zelka Belovan – Daniela Basaeva did her job one hundred percent.

Perhaps the most unpleasant episode of the first half of the game was the forced replacement of Camilla Abashilova by Maria Digurova, which happened in the middle of the half. It remains only to wish Camille good health and recover as soon as possible by the beginning of the season.

But in the second half, even the confident game of Ananyeva did not save the Dynamo goal from Spartak's goal. It is noteworthy that our goalkeeper repelled the first shot of Tiyana Filipovic, but the referee considered that she did it in violation of the rules and gave Spartak a second chance. This time the Serbian 11-meter shot was clearly realized – 1:1.

In the time remaining before the final whistle, the scenario of the first half was repeated – the red and white pressed, the white and blue fought back and made rare counterattacks.

As befits a capital derby, even in a friendly status, the game kept in suspense until the last seconds, and a draw result can be considered quite fair for both teams.