On Tuesday, Dynamo beat Sochi (3:2) and won the first victory in the FONBET Cup of Russia-2025/26. As usual, we have prepared for you the most interesting statistics based on the data provided by the RuStat platform.
Interesting facts
Dynamo and Sochi met for the first time in the Russian Cup. The match ended the same way as the previous meeting of the team in May 2024 – then the victory 3:2 in the same 95th minute was brought to Dynamo by Nicolas Ngamaleu's strike.
Bakhtiyor Zainutdinov and Maxim Balakhonov made their debut for the Dynamo main team. The 20-year-old defender gave an assist, and the newcomer of the blue and white earned a decisive corner kick.
Dmitry Alexandrov played the tenth match for the basis of Dynamo.
Thanks to his double, Ivan Sergeev caught up with Alexei Medvedev, who ranks second in the list of the best scorers of the Russian Cup with 22 goals. The leader in this list is Oleg Veretennikov (24).
Ngamaleu scored the 30th point for his performance in the blue and white team - he scored 16 goals and 14 assists in 91 matches.
Team statistics
Dynamo and Sochi played open football and created 18 scoring chances for two, while the blue and white more than doubled their opponents in terms of "Expected goals".
Key indicators: Dynamo – Sochi
Scoring chances: 10 – 8
Expected goals (xG): 2.48 – 1.18
Strikes (on target): 20 (9) – 12 (6)
Ball possession: 63% – 37%
Martial arts: 55% – 45%
Transmission: 497 – 312
Corners: 11 – 4
Strokes: 12 – 12
Selections: 11 – 14
Interceptions: 42 – 46
Rebounds: 51 – 52
Individual statistics
Ivan Sergeev is statistically the best player of the match. He received the highest RuStat index among all the players of the meeting (237). In 82 minutes, he struck 5 shots (3 of them on target), earned 2 fouls on himself and received the highest xG – 1.02.
Dmitry Alexandrov, who played most of the match as a central defender, made 90% of accurate passes, gave 25 progressive passes (the most in the match), and also made 9 rebounds, 5 interceptions and 113 technical and tactical actions (the best indicator).
Leon Zaydenzal, who played in the center and on the right edge of the defense, made 88 successful technical and tactical actions, participated in 2 scoring chances, made 72 assists and 12 times entered into single combats in defense.
Igor Leshchuk made 2 saves, made 93% of accurate passes and 100% of accurate shots from the goal.
Denis Makarov struck 6 shots at the Sochi goal, won 16 out of 26 single combats, made 8 accurate passes to the penalty area and 4 successful strokes.
Bakhtiyor Zainutdinov made 9 out of 10 successful TTDS, and Luka Gagnidze passed with 94% accuracy.
Maxim Balakhonov's performance in his debut match: 78% of successful TTDS, 76% of accurate passes, 67% of successful single combats, 6 rebounds, 5 overhangs (most of all), 2 interceptions, 1 gross error.
