The meeting of the 2nd round of the group stage of the Cup of Russia, held at VTB Arena, ended with the victory of the guests with a score of 4:0.
From the starting lineup for the match with Sochi, only Bitello came out from the first minutes. After an injury, Maxim Osipenko recovered, forming a pair of central defenders with Alexander Kutitskiy, and Leon Zaydenzal, who extended his contract the day before, took the right flank. Denis Bokov was at the forefront of the attack.
The first 15 minutes passed practically without a goal, the only shot was made by Bokov - it was inaccurate. But then the events began to develop quickly. First, after a corner kick, the ball bounced to Bitello, who powerfully shot from the penalty line, and Alexander Koryakin barely got it in the near corner.
The visitors scored with their first shot: Nikita Krivtsov intercepted an inaccurate pass from Ulvi Babayev, passed it into the penalty area, where the ball bounced off Kutitskiy's foot to 18-year-old forward Kazbek Mukailov, who took advantage of his chance.
The Dynamo players tried to be active on the opponent's half of the field, Babayev made a couple of great runs along the right flank, but apart from a few blocked shots, we couldn't create anything. The Krasnodar players scored twice more. First, Gustavo Santos received the ball on the flank, burst into the penalty area and accurately shot into the far corner, and at the very end, Mukailov intercepted a careless back pass by Kutitskiy and threw it over Igor Leshchuk.
During the break, four substitutions were made at once, with Nicolas Marichal, Daniil Fomin, Nicolas Ngamaleu and Ivan Sergeyev appearing on the field. A little later, Denis Makarov replaced Bitello. Dynamo began to have even more possession of the ball and act in the opponent's half of the field.
However, moments were still difficult to come by. Babayev's promising shot was again blocked by a defender, Marichal hit the net after a set piece, but from above, and the goalkeeper parried Dmitry Alexandrov's curved shot in a jump.
But at the end of the half, Krasnodar scored again: Krivtsov robbed Leshchuk in the penalty area and rolled the ball out for a shot by Eduard Spertsyan, who did not miss the empty goal. Sergeyev was close to opening the scoring, but, closing Babayev's cross, he headed it just wide of the post.
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