The braces of Okishor and Babayev helped Dynamo defeat Lokomotiv

There was a place in the Dynamo starting lineup for Yegor Smelov, who replaced Danil Glebov in the support zone, who received a minor injury in the game with Akhmat. The attacking trio this time consisted of Denis Makarov, Yaroslav Gladyshev and El-Mehdi Maouhoub.

The Dynamo players started the match very actively. In the 5th minute, Gladyshev received the ball on the right flank, moved closer to the center and shot from under the defender - Anton Mitryushkin reacted. Then Makarov crossed from the left flank, the ball reached Juan Caceres, and the Paraguayan's powerful shot from an acute angle went along the goal. Finally, after a cross from Caceres, Bitello headed it - it was not very accurate.

The hosts gradually came to their senses and began to respond with counterattacks. In one of them, Aleksey Batrakov ran from the center of the field one-on-one with Andrey Lunev, but missed the far corner. Nikita Saltykov took advantage of Bitello's unsuccessful pass back, burst into the penalty area and shot into the far corner, where Lunev got him. Another quick attack was again completed by Batrakov - this time it went higher.

One of the most noticeable players of the first half was Caceres, who at times tore apart the right flank. In one of the episodes, he ran away from his opponent, got close to the goal and crossed accurately, but at the last moment a defender stood in the way of the ball. After a corner kick, the Paraguayan put his shot over the crossbar from outside the penalty area. Makarov made two good shots: after a good cross from Smelov, Denis shot on the volley near the post, and after his shot from outside the penalty area, Mitryushkin saved his team.

At the beginning of the second half, a home preparation took place at the corner: Bitello crossed to the far corner, from where Maksim Osipenko, who was not covered by anyone, shot into the near corner - Mitryushkin was in place. A little later, the Brazilian sent the ball from a free kick in the center of the goal into the upper corner, and again the goalkeeper of the railway workers got it.

Gradually, the intensity of the game died down, and the coaches began making substitutions. In the 70th minute, Ivan Sergeev came out for the first time in a Dynamo shirt, and Dmitry Skopintsev, Nicolas Marichal and Nicolas Ngamaleu also appeared on the field. And then Lokomotiv opened the scoring: after an interception near the penalty area, the ball was passed to Batrakov, who hit the left corner of Lunev's goal.

The Dynamo players spent almost the entire last 15 minutes of the half attacking, but the hosts played very tightly near their goal. And yet, Ngamaleu had two chances: first, Osipenko sent him into a breakaway with a long pass, which ended with a shot into the net from the outside, and a couple of minutes later, Caceres found the Cameroonian with a great pass, and he shot centimeters from the goalpost.

For the third half, both teams had many young players and goalkeepers changed. The blue-and-whites could have quickly equalized the score from another corner - Marichal headed the ball to the far post, where Sergeyev was a moment too late. But in the next episode, Ivan made a timely pass to Viktor Okishor, who, surrounded by three defenders, shot into the far corner, and the ball ricocheted off the hand of Jerzino Nyamsi and flew into the net.

And then the goals started pouring in. Two of them came from Skopintsev's left flank. First, the defender raced away from his opponent and perfectly rolled the ball to Ngamalyo, who shot at Ilya Lantratov's goal. A couple of minutes later, Dmitry made a great pass past two defenders, Okishor spun beautifully in the penalty area and hit the near top corner - 3:1!

There was also room for the feat of Andrey Kudravets, who saved a difficult point-blank shot from Vladislav Sarveli. And then Ulvi Babayev scored a double within five minutes: first he closed a perfect pass from Okishor, and then played on the rebound after Lantratov blocked a long-range shot from Skopintsev in front of him.

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