Shlapakova's goal brought Dynamo victory over Yenisei

In the previous round of the Super League, Dynamo Moscow opened a new chapter in its history by hosting an opponent for the first time at the Rodina Stadium in Khimki. The Moscow derby against Lokomotiv (0:1) became not just a principled confrontation for the blue and white, but also an important reset point. After a difficult period in the championship and moving from the usual Novogorsk, Maxim Zinoviev's wards had the opportunity to prove that changing the home arena can affect not only the team's performance, but also its mood.

As if to confirm this theory, one of the main intrigues of the starting protocol was the exit of the young striker Milena Lyubimova. The striker made her debut at the base at the age of 16 years, 6 months and 1 day — a unique case for modern football, given that Milena managed to play twice as many matches for the main team as for the youth team.

In the absence of high performance (only three goals scored by the 9th round), the coaching staff relied on the audacity and energy of the young talent. At the same time, captain Yulia Bessolova was traditionally responsible for reliability and experience in the center of the field, who continues to hold the status of one of the best players in the league in terms of rebounds, consistently entering the top 5 of the Super League in this indicator.

However, the current position of Dynamo in the table makes fans and experts look at the calendar a little wider. A week after the game with Lokomotiv, Blue and white had to make the most distant trip this year - to Krasnoyarsk for a match with the local Yenisei, which is still the main outsider of the season. The Siberians, led by 71-year-old Alexander Tarkhanov, for whom this is his first experience in women's football, are still clearly looking for their game. The Krasnoyarsk club takes the last place, having scored only two points in nine rounds with a goal difference of 4-19.

For Dynamo, the confrontation with Yenisei is not the first season that looks as optimistic as possible. The history of personal meetings speaks for itself: before today's meeting, Muscovites had six victories in six face-to-face matches with a total score of 11-0. In addition, Galina Geybieva, well-known to us, who has played almost 70 matches for Dynamo, is among the rivals.

Given the vulnerability of Yenisei in defense and the tendency to miss in the starting segments of meetings (in matches against Spartak, Ryazan-Airborne Forces and CSKA, the team conceded goals in the first 12 minutes of the game), it was extremely important for the blue and white not to delay the opening of the account and do it as quickly as possible.

The blue and white from the very first minutes indicated their advantage by turning on active pressure, which forced the home team to cling to their own goal. Despite the starting pressure, the first ten minutes were spent in a positional struggle without accentuated strikes.

The first dangerous moment arose in the 14th minute, when Kristina Komissarova decided to strike, but the ball passed close to the bar. Shortly after that, Enisey midfielder Sofia Bulgakova received a warning, and the game began to unfold. In the 19th minute, Anastasia Shlapakova almost opened the scoring: taking advantage of the confusion in the defense of the Redskins, she struck an accurate shot, but the ball hit the post.

"Yenisei" tried to respond with counterattacks through Galina Geibieva, and in the 28th minute the hostesses even struck the first shot on target, which, however, did not become a problem for the defense of Muscovites.

The culmination of Dynamo pressure in the first half was a goal in the 30th minute: Shlapakova made an interception and decided on a long-range shot — the ball, following an ideal trajectory, pierced exactly into the "nine" of the Yenisei goal. Literally in the next attack, Milena Lyubimova could double the advantage by breaking into the penalty area, but her shot into the near corner turned out to be inaccurate. Before the break, Dynamo continued to fully control the course of the meeting, demonstrating a reliable defensive game and not allowing opponents to create scoring chances.

The second half began with a double substitution as part of the Yenisei, but the nature of the game did not change — the blue and white continued to own the ball and control the course of the game. By the 55th minute, the pace of the meeting had somewhat decreased, there were fewer chances at the gate, but the territorial advantage remained with the guests.

Olga Tir had a rare chance to recoup from Yenisei in the 63rd minute, but the implementation again failed the Krasnoyarsk team. In the middle of the half, the coaching staff of the hostesses carried out a number of more permutations, while Dynamo continued to play with the starting lineup.

In the final twenty minutes, Maxim Zinoviev's wards competently acted on the score, controlling the ball and forcing the opponent to foul. Dynamovki effectively "killed" time, earning standard positions and preventing Yenisei from organizing the final assault. Even at the end of the match, the blue and white did not sit in deep defense, but continued to press on the gate of the hostesses.

It was only in the 89th minute that the only substitution took place as part of Dynamo: the author of the winning goal Anastasia Shlapakova was replaced by Irina Dricheva. The referee added two minutes to the main time, which the Muscovites spent as confidently as possible, bringing the match to a well-deserved victory and taking three points in Krasnoyarsk.

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