Youth Dynamo lost to Rubin, who finished the match in the minority

The match began with a tight and viscous struggle for the initiative, where in the first minutes none of the teams could take a clear advantage. The first really dangerous moment arose at our goal in the 8th minute: after Ekaterina Leontieva's overhang, Darina Kudzieva lacked quite a bit to head the ball into an empty goal. The start of the meeting as a whole turned out to be difficult, there were a lot of joints and technical defects on the field on both sides.

In the 13th minute, a tough game led to the first warning – the captain of the guests, Milana Mambetova, fouled our player on the approaches to her penalty area. This standard almost became a goal: Daniella Petrova made an excellent serve, but Anna Chudilina was a little unlucky at the closure.

Soon the guests responded with their attack. Varvara Demidova made an inaccurate pass, which was intercepted by Leontieva, who dangerously but inaccurately punched into the far corner. By the 19th minute, "Rubin" began to attack more and more often, forcing blue and white goalkeeper Arina Taranchenko to regularly join the game. Dynamovki in this segment tried to open a well-built defense of rivals exclusively through the center, practically without using the flanks.

Soon our team still began to take the initiative, the attacks became sharper, but there was always a little bit missing for a goal. But the guests took advantage of their chance: in the 24th minute, Yana Kalmykova effectively closed the feed from the corner, bringing the Kazan club ahead.

After scoring the goal, the "Rubin" players continued to press, but the defensive line of "Dynamo" and the reliable game of Taranchenko restrained their attacking impulses. The blue and white had a great opportunity to even the score in the 37th minute, but the inconsistency of actions, technical marriage and lack of teamwork did not allow bringing a promising attack to its logical conclusion.

The end of the half was left to the guests. First, Taranchenko made an excellent save, transferring the ball to the corner after an unexpected strike by Leontieva under the crossbar, despite the fact that she went far out of the gate. And already in compensated time Sofia Savostina miraculously forgave our team, punching above the empty gate after a canopy by the indefatigable Leontieva.

The "Dynamo" coaching staff started the second half with a double substitution: Instead of Anna Chudilina and Daria Guskova, Kristina Kubatkina and Mariana Stepanova took the field. However, "Rubin" immediately snapped Leontieva's most dangerous shot into the far corner — the ball passed centimeters from the post. A couple of minutes later, Ekaterina Sergeeva also made the stands nervous, dangerously punching past the goal from the penalty line.

By the 54th minute, the Dynamos finally found the approaches to someone else's goal, increased the number of shots and earned several standards, but the ball stubbornly did not go into the net. The Kazan team responded with sharp counterattacks: for example, in the 56th minute, Leontieva's long-range strike was taken over by the bar. The blue and white team quickly responded with Irina Dricheva's cool serve to Eva Rabchenyuk, who, unfortunately, did not hit the target.

Immediately after this episode, the game was finally revealed, and Arina Taranchenko became the main character on the field. In the 60th minute, she brilliantly saved the team after Leah Ovechkina went one-on-one, and in the next attack she made another crucial save. To refresh the game, the coaching staff of "Dynamo" made another double substitution, releasing Daria Sorokina and Dana Dobrovitskaya instead of Pilnikova and Dricheva. In the 65th minute, the goal frame played for us again – the ball hit the crossbar after another one hundred percent moment of the guests, and a little later Darina Kudzieva's shot landed directly on the goal net from above.

Closer to the 75th minute, it became clear that it was difficult for the blue and white to turn the tide of the meeting: there were approaches to the penalty area, but there was no finishing blow. By the 83rd minute, the pace of the game dropped noticeably, the teams almost stopped creating sharpness. At the very end, "Rubin" pressed tightly on the "Dynamo" gate, imposing a series of corners on our penalty area, from which we had to fight back.

At the 90th minute, the blue and white suddenly had a glimmer of hope: the author of the goal, Yana Kalmykova, received a second yellow card and left her team outnumbered. Dynamovki rushed into the final assault, and in the third added minute, Yana Nesterenko managed to reach the ball with her foot in someone else's penalty area, but it did not work out to get it into the net.

Which meant only one thing: "Dynamo" lost to "Rubin" with a minimum score of 0:1.

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