Dynamo team in the 5th round of the Youth League in a nervous match prevailed over the youth team of red and white (2:1).
A crazy match was given out by Dynamo and Spartak in Novogorsk! And not so much by the score, but by the tension, the nerve, the fight for every ball and until the last second of the meeting.
Oleg Gusev's wards began to create their moments from the first minutes, but they were frankly unlucky. Especially offensive were the misses from the killing positions of Svetlana Vinnikova, who could hit the red-and-white goal twice in the first half. Irina Dricheva had another great moment to open the account, but this time the Spartak team was saved by goalkeeper Anastasia Yemelyanova.
Having the advantage throughout the half, Dynamo could have missed it at the end: the Spartacists carried out several dangerous attacks, each of which could bring success to Ivan Kvasov's team. Nevertheless, both the end of the half and the whole half deservedly passed under the dictation of Dynamo football players: in the 40th minute, Angelina Golik finally broke through the Spartak wall with a fantastic long-range shot, and two minutes later Anastasia Kovaleva, who picked up the ball after intercepting Valeria Azeeva, performed another magnificent goal of the blue and white in this meeting.! It seemed that the fate of the match was decided in just three minutes.
But no less interesting events unfolded in the second half. Despite the fact that Dynamo continued to host at the gates of Spartak, it was their rivals who could score. But in one episode, Dynamo was saved by a barbell, and in the second by goalkeeper Maria Leontieva, who once again demonstrated her goaltending talent at such a young age.
The guests nevertheless seized the initiative and began to systematically carry out dangerous attacks one after another: here Leontieva again saved her team at the cost of a small damage, but one of the Spartacists again charged into the frame of the Dynamo gate - but this time into the crossbar.
But in the 83rd minute, a double trouble happened for our team at once. Valeria Kuznetsova, who replaced the red and white, managed to make such a jump that at the same time she sent the ball into the Dynamo goal and caused serious damage to the blue and white midfielder Varvara Demidova, who even had to be carried off the field on a stretcher. You can only wish health to Varvara!
Meanwhile, the game continued and it became obvious that Spartak would make every effort to even the score. Proof of how charged our rivals were was the removal from the field of the head coach of the Spartak youth team Ivan Kvasov, who repeatedly expressed indignation at the decisions of the referee Naili Khasanova during the game and engaged in verbal altercations with representatives of the Dynamo coaching staff.
The blue and white were forced to spend the last 10 minutes of the meeting on the defensive, fighting off Spartak's attacks, which rolled over our gates like waves. However, they never managed to do the main thing: they were not destined to break through the Dynamo wall on this rainy Sunday evening!
Oleg Gusev's wards won the hardest victory in the derby and continued their pursuit of the leader of the Youth League, Lokomotiv Moscow.
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 May 25 – in St. Petersburg against FC Zenit. The meeting starts at 11:00 Moscow time.
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