The meeting of the 27th round of the Russian Premier League, held in Samara, ended with the victory of our team with a score of 3:1.
In his first game as acting head coach of the team, Rolan Gusev did not rotate the squad much, making only two forced changes: Roberto Fernandez and Bitello took the places of Fabian Balbuena and Daniil Fomin, and Dmitry Skopintsev and Nicolas Ngamaleu took the left flank.
And already in the second minute, the Cameroonian striker opened the score – Yaroslav Gladyshev threw the ball between Kirill Pechenin's legs, burst into the penalty area, shot along the goal line, and Moumi sent the ball into the net from two meters!
Soon Gladyshev himself, who turned 22 on Monday, completed a quick attack, but this time Sergei Pesyakov deflected the ball with his foot. Gradually, the hosts recovered from the starting shock and took possession of the ball. In one of the episodes, Andrei Lunev, who came out with the captain's armband for the first time, had to go outside the penalty area and play with his head to help the defenders.
Otherwise, the blue and white defense line acted very carefully. In the middle of the half, Bitello earned a free kick 20 meters from Pesyakov's goal and executed it himself, shooting over the crossbar. Gladyshev and Skopintsev then ran away in a quick counterattack, the Dynamo defender scattered two opponents with feints and fell on the penalty line – Evgeny Bulanov at first even awarded penalty, but then changed his decision in favor of a free kick.
In the 31st minute Skopintsev distinguished himself with a minus sign, cutting the ball into his own goal after a shot from the left flank from Ivan Oleynikov. Muscovites rushed forward again and began to load Pesyakov. The Samara goalkeeper coped with the blows of Skopintsev, Bitello and Luis Chavez, and Jorge Carrascal struck near the post.
During the break, Skopintsev was replaced by Diego Laxalt. The second half started with a cold shower for our team – Carrascal in the center of the field hit Sergei Babkin, and the referee showed him a straight red card. However, Dynamo reacted to this with a goal: Gladyshev took the ball with his back to the goal, turned around well and spun the ball from the penalty line exactly into the far nine – 2:1!
In defense, Dynamo continued to act competently, and the danger at the goal of Lunev arose only after the crosses. At one point, Anton Zinkovsky made a cross into the penalty area, the ball did not hit anyone and flew exactly to the far corner, where our goalkeeper got it in a beautiful jump. A little later, Dmitry Tsypchenko finished the cross with his head and hit the crossbar.
During the half, Dynamo also lost Chavez and Laxalt due to injuries. However, Alexander Kutitskiy and Dmitry Alexandrov, who entered the field, did not spoil the picture, and the birthday boy scored again in the 82nd minute. Gladyshev completed a quick attack organized by Bitello and Danil Glebov with a shot at an almost empty goal. In the added 10 minutes, the fourth goal could have been in Pesyakov's net, but Denis Makarov missed the target a little.
Dynamo scored 50 points and occupy the fifth place in the standings. In the next round, the blue and whites will host Spartak. Buy tickets on our website.
