The teams exchanged dangerous moments in the second half, but they could not open the account (0:0).
The match began with a viscous struggle for the initiative: in the first minutes on the field there were many fouls and whistles of the chief referee of the meeting Nikolai Kichkin. Already in the 7th minute, the Moscow "Master Saturn" carried out the first interesting attack, but our defenders reliably stopped the attacking guests. Soon the blue and white responded with their approaches to someone else's gate. The defense of the home team confidently fought back, and the long-range shot of "Dynamo" midfielder Alisa Klimova in the 13th minute turned out to be inaccurate.
The game mostly took place in the center of the field without obvious moments, although closer to the 17th minute our team gradually began to seize the initiative. However, the rivals did not forget about the attack. In the 19th minute, "Master Saturn" managed to push the ball into the blue and white goal, but the referee fixed the offside, so there was no missed goal. Two minutes later, Arina Taranchenko had to seriously enter the game – our goalkeeper confidently beat off a tight strike from the striker Anastasia Chernousova.
Unfortunately, at the 22nd minute, the "Dynamo" coaching staff had to make a forced replacement: Daria Sorokina appeared on the field instead of Alisa Klimova. She could have immediately become the heroine of the episode when she almost ran away one-on-one with the goalkeeper, but she overdid it with dribbling, and the "Saturn Master" defender knocked the ball out.
By the middle of the half, it became obvious that the attacks of the Moscow Region team look sharper and more targeted. Dynamovki in the creation were frankly not visible, and the opponent, realizing that our team does not yet offer unsolvable tasks, began to impose the fight even more actively. The last minutes before the break were spent on a collision course. In the 36th minute, Taranchenko again rescued the team by transferring a powerful long-range shot to the corner, and in the 44th minute she firmly took the ball after a direct free kick.
The teams left for the break with zeros on the scoreboard: the Dynamos clearly needed to change something in their game, since "Master Saturn" looked preferable.
For the second half, the blue and white came out with changes in the composition: Instead of Daria Guskova and Ksenia Pilnikova, Anastasia Chernikova and Dana Dobrovitskaya joined the game. Nevertheless, the start of the second half was again left to the guests, and "Dynamo" still did not look like a favorite in this meeting. Our team tried to design attacks, but the attacks of "Saturn" were more threatening.
And yet, in the 54th minute, "Dynamo" created the first truly dangerous moment in the match. After a discount from Daria Sorokina, Milena Lyubimova hit almost point blank, but "Master Saturn" goalkeeper Svetlana Zenkova hit the ball. After this surge, the opponents tried to switch to counterattacks and long-range strikes, but the balls no longer reached Taranchenko's goal. A tight fight for the initiative resumed on the field without dangerous moments.
To add sharpness to the attack, in the 72nd minute, instead of captain Daniella Petrova, "Dynamo "'s top scorer Eva Rabchenyuk entered the field. Despite this, "Saturn" again spent the second half of the half with an advantage, creating serious tension at our penalty area. In the 80th minute, the blue and white earned a corner kick and tried to execute the "dry leaf", but it didn't work out to spin the ball into the goal. Six minutes before the end of regular time, Kristina Kubatkina and Yana Nesterenko entered the game, replacing Ekaterina Sergeeva and Varvara Demidova.
In the end, the teams exchanged not the most dangerous attacks. In the 89th minute, after giving a corner, Rabchenyuk struck right into the hands of the goalkeeper. Already in compensated time, in the 91st minute, another "Dynamo" attack ended with the same result. The blue and white tried to press until the last minute: in the 92nd minute, after a dangerous overhang into the penalty area, Zenkova barely knocked the ball to the corner. Immediately after that, the final whistle sounded.
The result is a difficult match in which "Dynamo" failed to snatch victory.
For full information about the starting lineups and the events of the meeting, see the match center.
The next match of Dynamo U-21 will be played on October 4 – at the base in Novogorsk will host the WFC Zenit. The meeting starts at 16:00 Moscow time.
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