Dynamo outnumbered Spartak in Sokolniki

The game started very cautiously, as if Spartak and Dynamo were fighting each other for the gold of the Youth League. The first 10 minutes of the meeting passed without any blows at all and without moments from both teams.

The game could have been blown up by an unexpected mistake by Spartak goalkeeper Angelina Shirochenko, who, after a not very dangerous blow, sent the ball into the crossbar of her own goal. But this time the goalkeeper was lucky – he immediately returned to her hands. But the next moment was created by the dynamovki themselves. In the 18th minute, after Ekaterina Sergeeva's free kick, the ball ricocheted off one of the players in the Spartak wall and landed exactly on Tatyana Danilochkina's head. And it seemed that the Dynamo midfielder was doing everything – she was hitting towards the goal, only the ball went in the wrong direction at all.

Immediately, a minute later, Daria Guskova punched tightly with her left foot – it could have been dangerous if it hadn't been right into Shirochenko's hands. Nevertheless, the first shot on target took place, and with it the game advantage of our team was marked.

Despite this, the hostesses created the first truly scoring moment - in the 23rd minute, Valeria Batyreva's free kick was neutralized by Arina Taranchenko! The same five minutes later, the blue and white responded: Sergeeva sent Anastasia Kovaleva into a breakthrough, the Belarusian whipped through the Spartak goal, and only Shirochenko's reaction saved the red and white from the first missed ball.

Nevertheless, the end of the half was already dictated by Spartak. The Spartacists made a pile into the Dynamo penalty area, periodically creating moments, fortunately, not so dangerous.

The second half began for Dynamo with the first substitution, Varvara Demidova came out instead of Sergeeva, and continued... with the removal of Svetlana Vinnikova, who fouled the opponents' goalkeeper and received her second warning in the match. So for almost the whole time Oleg Gusev's wards remained in the minority.

It is not surprising that after the removal, the blue and white began to play even stricter and more collected, and the moments of Spartak, who played in numerical advantage, almost completely disappeared. Red and white became more active closer to the end of the half, as it was in the first half of the meeting. The first such outburst was Yana Svistunova's free kick – it turned out to be alarming, but still past the bar.

But the very next episode became fatal for the blue and white. In the 90th minute, Anna Khaliulina closed the feed into the penalty area, hitting the crossbar with a powerful blow. After the rebound, the ball fell to Daniella Petrova, who tried to knock it out of the penalty area, but instead sent it to the goalkeeper.  Violetta Kahramanzade, who had recently replaced her, was already on duty there, taking advantage of the confusion at the Dynamo gate and still pushed the ball past Taranchenko and the Dynamo defenders.

There was very little time left to recoup, but it would have been super difficult to do it anyway, given the game in the minority.

So this is the first defeat in a long time, which allowed the capital's Lokomotiv to break away from the blue and white again by a distance of one victory.

For full information about the starting lineups and the events of the meeting, see the match center.