The friendly match, held at the Novogorsk Training Center, ended with a score of 1:1.
In the first half, Valery Karpin decided to use the Alexandrov – Smelov – Okishor youth trio in the center of the field. And the most noticeable in the first minutes was another young football player – Ulvi Babayev.
First, he and Okishor brought the ball to Denis Makarov, whose shot from a good position lacked strength. Next, Ulvi earned a dangerous free kick – Okishor struck hard in the center, and Vadim Ulyanov deflected the ball. Finally, Makarov won the aerial duel, El-Mehdi Maouhoub made a cross into the center of the penalty area, where Babayev jumped out from behind the defender and shot over the crossbar.
In general, Akhmat, that played with almost the strongest squad, had the territorial advantage. However, Dynamo skilfully got out from under the active high pressure of the nominal home team, and all the danger at the goal of Igor Leshchuk arose after the set pieces. So, Georgiy Melkadze hit from a few meters after a corner kick, but Leshchuk competently took a position and stopped the ball.
In the middle of the half, an unpleasant episode happened: Maouhoub collided with his opponent's heads and after a few minutes asked for a replacement – Yaroslav Gladyshev appeared on the field. And soon Dynamo scored. Leshchuk knocked far away from the goal, Makarov won the "air" again, and Babayev got the ball, rocked the defender and shot from the penalty line into the top corner of the goal!
In the end, the score could have changed in any direction. First, after a cross from the flank, the ball bounced off Smelov to Brian Mansilla, but he did not hit the near corner. Immediately after that Babayev shot from the penalty line – this time Ulyanov was able to transfer the ball to the corner.
Five substitutions took place at once during the break: Maxim Osipenko, Leon Zaydenzal and Dmitry Skopintsev joined the defense line, and Bitello and Denis Bokov were on the attack. At the beginning of the half, Smelov made a great run on the right flank, crossed to Babayev, but Nader Gandri got to the ball first, almost sending it into his own net.
The game became tougher, the number of violations increased, and in the first 12 minutes of the half the referee showed four yellow cards – and two of them fell to the share of Alexander Kutitskiy. And while Juan Caceres was preparing to replace him, Grozny hit back – Lechi Sadulaev from the left flank crossed on the far post, from where Abakar Gadzhiev in a jump hammered the ball under the crossbar.
Then there were massive substitutions in both teams, and the integrity of the game was not on top. The last ten minutes went in Dynamo's favor. Two very dangerous set pieces in the center of the goal did not bring results – both times the wall withstood.
Caceres shot from the corner of the penalty area under the crossbar – Ulyanov transferred the ball to the crossbar with his fingertips. Finally, Gladyshev struck powerfully from the left, the Grozny goalkeeper parried the ball, after which he also coped with Makarov's rebound strike.
In the final test match at the summer training camp, our team will play on July 12 with Lokomotiv at the RZD Arena.
