The blue and white lost to the current champion of the Youth League, conceding five unanswered goals at the Sapsan Arena.
The away match against Lokomotiv began for Dynamo football players with active attacking actions. Already in the first five minutes of the meeting, the blue and white marked their advantage by organizing several promising approaches to the goal of the home team and imposing pressure on their half. By the 10th minute, the wards of Dynamo managed to get dangerously close to the opponents' penalty area twice, but they failed to realize the starting pressure in the goals scored.
Lokomotiv responded in the 11th minute with a sharp attack, which the guests' defense managed to neutralize. Shortly after that, in the 13th minute, Azalea Zalmieva struck from the penalty line, but the ball went over the crossbar of Arina Taranchenko's goal.
By the 15th minute, the initiative gradually passed to the Lokomotiv players, who began to own the ball more and attack more often. At the 17th minute, Irina Dricheva tried to hit the target with a shot from a distance, but there was not enough accuracy.
During this period of time, the game switched to opposite courses: both teams exchanged attacks, which most often ended with inaccurate long-range strikes. In the 21st minute, Dynamo had one of the most obvious moments to score a goal. Ksenia Pilnikova made a high-speed pass along the right flank and made a shot along the goal line. The ball did not reach Eva Rabchenyuk, as the Lokomotiv defender managed to knock it literally off the ribbon.
At the 26th minute, a forced rearrangement took place in the Loko line-up: due to damage, Kristina Boldyreva was replaced by Polina Frolova. It was the player who entered the field who opened the scoring in the 30th minute, sending the ball into the Dynamo goal with a shot from the center of the goalkeeper square. After this goal, the pressure of the home team intensified. In the 34th minute, Arina Taranchenko rescued the team twice in a row, repelling the blows of the Lokomotiv players.
Just before the break, the railwaywomen carried out a series of dangerous attacks. In the 44th minute, Vladislava Butkevich hit the center from the 11-meter mark – Taranchenko coped with the threat. A minute later, the Dynamo goalkeeper took the ball after Daria Abramova hit.
At the first minute added to the half, the ball, after another blow from the hostesses and the goalkeeper's touch, hit the crossbar and bounced back into the field. However, Dynamo was no longer so lucky. Just before the whistle for the break, Lokomotiv doubled the advantage: after a shot into the penalty area, Sofia Stelmakhova sent the ball into the net from the 11-meter mark.
The second half began in a calmer rhythm and there was little foreshadowing such a hail of goals. In the 51st minute, Irina Dricheva executed a free kick, checking Arina Kulakova, but the Lokomotiv goalkeeper fixed the ball.
And then it started. In the 56th minute, Daria Abramova received a pass on the Dynamo penalty line, beat the defender and scored 3:0 with an accurate blow to the center. Dynamo tried to transfer the game to someone else's half of the field, but in the 61st minute they missed a counterattack, which Polina Frolova completed with an accurate blow, making a double.
At the 67th minute, Dynamo's coaching staff made a triple substitution: Ksenia Pilnikova, Dasha Guskova and Kristina Kubatkina were replaced by Mariana Stepanova, Yana Nesterenko and Alina Gagieva. And it was in the 70th minute that a mistake in the defense of Mariana Stepanova allowed Daria Abramova to go one-on-one with the goalkeeper and score the fifth goal.
In the final part of the meeting, the pace of the game decreased. By the 87th minute, Lokomotiv struck several more blows, which did not lead to a change in the score. After three added minutes, the referee recorded the final result — 5:0 in favor of the home team.
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 August 16 – in Krasnoyarsk against the youth team of JFC Yenisei. The meeting starts at 8:00 Moscow time.
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