The friendly match, held in Dubai, ended with the victory of the blue-whites with a score of 2:0.
In the early morning, almost the strongest teams available to the coaches of both teams entered the field. Dynamo has Fabian Balbuena and Roberto Fernandez in the center of the defense, and Diego Laxalt returned to the left. In the support zone, Daniil Fomin was paired with young Egor Smelov.
Dynamo started the match more actively, and already in the third minute Yaroslav Gladyshev with a cunning shot into the near corner checked Ilya Lantratov's reaction – the goalkeeper of the railwaymen coped. Soon, however, the ball was in the net when Konstantin Tyukavin closed the overhang with his head from the corner, but the referee canceled the goal due to a violation.
In their half, the blue and white acted very tenaciously, preventing them from creating at least some danger at the gates of Andrei Lunev. In the first half hour, in fact, he entered the game only once, firmly taking a header from Jerzino Nyamsi after a free kick. In the middle of the half, Laxalt gave way on the left flank of the defense to Dmitry Skopintsev.
In the attack, more and more often the ball reached Gladyshev: two of his strikes were blocked by defenders, and Lantratov coped with the third with difficulty. It was he who started the scoring attack, finding Arthur at the penalty area, the Brazilian passed to Smelov, whose shot was handled by the Loko goalkeeper, and Tyukavin was the first on the rebound.
Immediately, the railwaymen could recoup – Nair Tiknizyan shot from a good position, but Lunev played well and parried a strong blow. And then Tyukavin scored again. Kostya accepted the pass of Jorge Carrascal and shot sharply from a not very obvious position – the ball ricocheted from the far post into the net. At the end of the half, he lacked some centimeters to make a hat-trick when the ball landed on top of the goal net.
The break did not make significant changes in the nature of the game – Dynamo were extremely focused in the back and purposeful up front. Gladyshev beautifully twisted the ball into the crossbar, after which Daniil Fomin made a powerful strike from afar – Lantratov saved his team. Igor Leshchuk, who came out during the break, also managed to get into the game and for a moment was ahead of Timur Suleymanov, who was rushing to the ball.
After the 60th minute, the Dynamo line-up changed dramatically, until the end of the match only Tyukavin, Balbuena and Fernandez remained on the field. The initiative passed to the railwaymen, and Leshchuk had to work hard. At first, Nyamsi made a header without hindrance after the cross from the standard, and our goalkeeper in a beautiful jump transferred the ball to the corner. A little later, he coped with Edgar Sevikyan's shot from outside the penalty area.
There were moments to make the score big for our team: Viktor Okishor sent the ball a little higher, closing the aimed cross from the right flank, and Denis Makarov missed the far corner a little after a long-range shot. As a result, the blue-whites confidently brought the match to victory.
With this, the second training camp for our team has come to an end, and after a short pause, it will resume preparations for the restart of the season on February 18. Two test matches with Ural and Krasnodar are scheduled for the third training camp on February 21.
