The eleventh round of the XXIV tournament "Everlasting Stars" took place on Wednesday, November 19, at the Spartak arena and was dedicated to the memory of the Honored Master of Sports, champion of the 1956 Olympics Anatoly Mikhailovich Ilyin.
1) Dynamo – Lokomotiv – 0:0
2) Dynamo – RFU – 0:0
3) Dynamo – CSKA – 1:0 (Stanislav Dubrovin)
4) Dynamo – SVF – 0:0
5) Dynamo – Spartak – 0:0
1st match. The starting game – and immediately with the main pursuer. Both teams fought in earnest. From the confrontation of Eric Yakhimovich with the locomotive Garnik Avalyan, sparks flew already. It was a match between two teams of equal strength, which ended in a fair draw.
Andrey Smetanin: It was impossible to lose to the railwaymen. Therefore, I consider the outcome of the match for Dynamo to be positive.
2nd match. Dynamo players created two good moments in this game: in the first half, Yakhimovich's long-range shot missed the bar a little bit, in the second Nikolai Smirnov did not have time to close the shot. The opponent did not sit on the defensive, but did not create a real danger.
Alexey Kutsenko: Eric could have scored at that moment, but he was most likely counting on Dubrovin's jerk, whose movement was already being watched by the goalkeeper. It turned out that no one was watching the ball. Twist it the other way, and be naked.
3rd match. Stanislav Dubrovin became the hero of this match. At first, after his shot, the goalkeeper managed to transfer the ball over the crossbar only with his fingertips. But in the second moment Stanislav put all his strength into the shot so that the ball flew into the net of the goal – 1:0.
Stanislav Dubrovin: How glad I am to score the ball. After all, I try in every game, I move constantly. But now the goals have become very tight.
4th match. Dynamo's carousel attacks wound circles, but it was very difficult to sew viscous defenses. Only once in this whirlwind Igor Gavrilin jumped out at the gate with the ball, but was immediately covered from all sides so that they did not allow him to break through.
Sergey Kozlov: What a fine fellow Gavrilin is. On a fast run, he took the ball, stuck it to his leg, made another jerk. And all this in a dense environment. And that he didn't score is not his fault. There was no time for a swing, no space for movement.
The 5th match. The only game that Dynamo could really lose. In the second half, the referees punished them with a fair penalty: Andrei Tveryankin deliberately left the gate, and Spartak's shot from the center of the court flew past the target.
Vladimir Dolbonosov: The competition has come very close to completion. Two teams tried to challenge Dynamo's leadership yesterday, but today only Lokomotiv has kept chances to catch up and overtake us. The opponent is strong, and therefore an eight-point gap cannot serve as a reliable guarantee. Moreover, the railway workers will be helped by their native walls in December. The twelfth round promises to be a combat one. We will prepare.
The Dynamo team consists of Andrey Tveryankin (goalkeeper), Andrey Novgorodov, Eric Yakhimovich (captain), Stanislav Dubrovin, Nikolai Smirnov, Alexey Kozlov, Igor Gavrilin.
Substitutes: Victor Riveiro, Dmitry Karablin, Mikhail Maryushkin, Alexey Kutsenko.
Team leader: Vladimir Dolbonosov.
Dynamo veterans supported their native club: Mikhail Skokov, Viktor Losev, Andrey Smetanin, Alexander Rakitsky, Sergey Kozlov.
The places of the teams and the best players of the November tour:
1) Lokomotiv – 13 points (Alexander Mirtov)
2) Spartak – 11 (Alexander Panov)
3) Dynamo – 11 (Stanislav Dubrovin)
4) RFU – 11 (Evgeny Letin)
5) SVF – 8 (Yuri Zhernovenkov)
6) CSKA – 6 (Boris Aimbetov)
Nikita Simonyan Cup (the most productive team) was awarded to Lokomotiv.
The position of the teams after 11 rounds:
1) Dynamo – 127 points (four first places)
2) Lokomotiv – 119 (four first places)
3) Spartak – 114 (one first place)
4) RFS – 107 (one first place)
5) SVF (former "Torpedo") – 103 (one first place)
6) CSKA – 90
The host of the final twelfth round of the Lokomotiv team invites rivals on December 17 (Wednesday) to 11 o'clock in his arena on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street.