The friendly game, held in Dubai, ended with the victory of the blue-whites with a score of 3:2.
For the morning match, Marcel Licka fielded those who received less playing time in the championship, plus Eli Dasa, Daniil Fomin and Nicolas Ngamaleu who joined them. The long-awaited return to the field of Milan Majstorovic, who celebrated his 20th birthday on Friday, took place.
At the beginning of the match, Viktor Okishor was the most noticeable on the field. At first, he went to the strike position and tried to complete the attack from the toe, but Ural goalkeeper Denis Shcherbitsky saved his team. In the 7th minute, the young midfielder gave a cool pass with the outside of his foot to Makarov, and Denis masterfully twisted the ball into the bottom corner – 1:0.
Immediately, Dynamo had a similar attack, only this time the recipient of the Okishor transfer was Nicolas Ngamaleu, who did not hit the far corner. By the way, on the left flank, the Cameroonian was opposed by Stanislav Bessmertniy, who transferred to Ural on loan, and more than once entered into martial arts with him.
Igor Leshchuk also had decent work in the first half. Our goalkeeper coped with four good shots from the Ural team – the rescue was especially spectacular in the middle of the half, when Leshchuk pulled the ball out of the right nine after Yuri Zheleznov's shot from the penalty line.
Okishor could have doubled the advantage of our team, but Shcherbitsky parried the 18-year-old midfielder's kick into the near corner with his foot. But in the 34th minute Vitya recorded the second assist on his account, having seen the opening of Ngamaleu, who shot the goal of Yekaterinburg from close range.
Majstorovic's playing time in this match was limited to 37 minutes – Leon Zaydenzal appeared on the field instead of him. At the end of the half, the captain of Dynamo-2 knocked the ball out from under the opponent's feet in a tackle, and he flew to Ayrat Khabibulin, who set the final score of the first half - 2:1.
During the break, El-Mehdi Maouhoub was replaced by Alexander Khubulov, and after 15 minutes of the game, another young attacking player Gleb Miroshnichenko came out instead of Daniil Fomin. In the second half, the speed dropped as expected, and there were noticeably fewer moments at both gates.
Bessmertniy forced Leshchuk to make a beautiful save with a twisted shot into the near corner, after which the Dynamo goalkeeper confidently coped with a direct shot at the goal from the corner. In the 74th minute, our team managed a quick counterattack – Egor Smelov dragged the ball to the penalty area, played into the wall with Makarov and hit the goal clearly, increasing the advantage of Dynamo.
Soon Denis could record more effective actions on his account. At first, he shot a better shot at the far post, where Miroshnichenko was sending the ball into the goal in a fall, but missed a little bit. Next, Makarov brought Ngamaleu to the strike position, and this time the goalkeeper of the Ural team played beyond praise. Immediately Okishor powerfully applied from behind the penalty area next to the nine. In the very end, Ural was able to score its second goal – Nikita Morozov scored from close range.
At 16:00 Dynamo will play with Krasnodar in a different team. Watch the live broadcast on the Okko website and app.
