In the opening match of the pre-season BetBoom Fraternal Cup tournament, held at VTB Arena, the blue and whites beat OFK Belgrade with a score of 4:0.
For the first half, Valery Karpin put the strongest starting eleven at the moment. Maxim Osipenko and Nicolas Marichal made up a pair of central defenders, and Nicolas Ngamaleus, Yaroslav Gladyshev and Denis Bokov made up the attacking trio.
The match started with two dangerous moments at our goal. First, Diogo Bezerra shot from the left flank into the penalty area, where Barcelona graduate Hugo Alba could not send the ball past Andrei Lunev. A minute later, Alexa Tsvetkovich fell out one-on-one with Andrei, and again our goalkeeper emerged victorious in close combat.
Dynamo players gradually came to their senses and already in the 8th minute opened the account: Maxim Osipenko joined the attack, opened in the center of the penalty area and, without hindrance, closed Bitello's cross with his head. Soon the Brazilian himself could have scored, but his good shot from the penalty line was repelled by Balsha Popovich.
In the 21st minute, the Muscovites doubled their advantage. Juan Caceres, with a cool pass, found Gladyshev in the penalty area, who got closer to the goalkeeper and sent the ball between his legs – 2:0.
In the second half, Dynamo had to make the score big, but the ball stubbornly did not go into the goal. Bokov did not realize a one-on-one opportunity after Gladyshev's cutting pass, and Fomin's tight shot from 20 meters was repelled by the goalkeeper. Finally, Glebov intercepted Popovich's unsuccessful pass to the defender, but did not hit himself and passed to Bokov, at whose feet the goalkeeper took the ball.
After the big break, an almost completely new lineup came out – only Bokov and Gladyshev remained on the field. At the same time, the nature of the game has not changed, and the hosts continued to completely dominate. Several times Ulvi Babayev was in the center of attention. First he tried to make a bicycle shot, and a little later tried to curl the ball into the top corner, but the ball flew next to the bar.
Viktor Okishor conducted the attacks in the center of the field. It was he who brought Gladyshev one-on-one, after which Yaroslav dribbled past the goalkeeper, but did not shoot from an acute angle and missed a good moment. Then Gladyshev himself found Bokov with a cutting pass, and again the OFK goalkeeper was on top.
In the middle of the half, Luka Gagnidze and 16-year-old winger Vladislav Stepanov appeared on the field. The youngster only made his debut for Dynamo-2 in May and today extended his contract with the club. After a short lull, the game was blown up by Dmitry Skopintsev, who scattered the defenders with his feints and rolled the ball into the center of the penalty area, from where Okishor struck higher.
Gagnidze created a real masterpiece in the 82nd minute. The Georgian midfielder dribbled past his guardian, played a give-and-go with Okishor and sent the ball under the crossbar with a beautiful shot from behind the penalty area. Two minutes later Skopintsev volunteered to execute a free kick from the corner of the penalty area, shot into the defender's hand and confidently converted a penalty – 4:0!
At the end of the match, a significant event took place – Kirill Panchenko appeared on the field in his farewell match. Symbolically, he replaced Stepanov, who is now training in the Dynamo-2. The striker failed to score, which did not prevent the fans from giving a real ovation to their idol.
On Friday, July 4, our team will play the second match at the BetBoom Fraternal Cup with Partizan Belgrade. Buy tickets to VTB Arena on our website.
