Preview of the Russian Championship match Akron — Dynamo

The text broadcast of the game will be available online in our match center.

For Dynamo fans, the B529 sector is provided, tickets for which can be purchased in advance via the following link, as well as on the day of the game at the guest box office, starting at 17:15 local time.

We recommend that you generate QR codes in advance in the mobile application "Public Services. Fan Card" for the possibility of using the QR code offline (without Internet connection) when entering the stadium or printing them on paper in advance, or using other ways to save the QR code.

You will be able to watch the live video broadcast of this game after registering on the website of our title sponsor BetBoom betting company and in its clubs that operate according to the "All Inclusive" concept (look for the nearest club on the map), as well as on the Match Premier TV channel. Beginning at 17:15 Moscow time.

Also, after the match, wait on our resources for the traditional edition of "Inside" with the highlights of the game and interviews of the actors.

Blue and whites on Wednesday held the most important cup match with Krasnodar, having played a zero draw at VTB Arena in the first final meeting of the RPL Path. Andrei Lunev returned to the goal after a month and recorded his 11th clean sheet in a Dynamo T-shirt.  

— Of course, we will not stop playing in the championship, this is not about Dynamo Moscow. We always go out to play to win. Closer to the match in Krasnodar, we will start preparing for it and working out a strategy, and now we need to think about the next game in the championship, — Rolan Gusev said after the match.

Akron didn't reach the final stages of the Cup, so they had eight days to prepare for the home game. And their preparation must have been intense, as in 2026, the team earned just one point in five matches, drawing 1-1 at home with Akhmat. Currently, they're only ahead of Krylia Sovetov, who are in the playoff zone, on tiebreakers.

The Togliatti team also lost to Orenburg (2-0) and three Moscow teams: Spartak (3-4), Lokomotiv (1-5), and CSKA (1-2). Akron certainly could have earned more points. They conceded a goal against the Red-Whites right at the end, and Artem Dzyuba's goal in the dying seconds of the previous round's match against CSKA was disallowed due to an "attack on the goalkeeper," which even prompted a subsequent back-and-forth between the forward and Igor Akinfeev in the post-match commentary.

"We need to move on and draw the right conclusions. Essentially, we didn't deserve the defeat and didn't play hard enough to deserve it. With the utmost respect for Akinfeev, the best goalkeeper in the history of Russian football, Dzyuba was better in this situation; the goal couldn't be disallowed. There was no contact, and there's no point in talking about serious contact at all. The ball was taken from us," said Akron head coach Zaurbek Tedeev.

Another controversial moment was the Army Men's first goal, which they scored in the fifth minute from a corner awarded due to a delay in the kickoff by Togliatti goalkeeper Ignat Terekhovsky. This was the first successful use of the so-called "eight-second rule."

It's worth noting that starting central midfielder Ifet Djakovac will miss the match due to an accumulation of yellow cards.

Ivan Sergeev and Artem Dzyuba crossed paths at Zenit in the first half of 2022.

Anton Miranchuk has been playing with Akron midfielder Konstantin Maradishvili in Lokomotiv for 2.5 seasons.

Another Togliatti midfielder Christian Bistrovich and Bakhtiyor Zaynutdinov played for CSKA in 2020-2021.

The teams met only four times: after a zero draw and a penalty shootout defeat in the cup meeting in April 2023, Dynamo twice beat Togliatti last season with a total score of 4:1. In the first round at VTB Arena, the Akron players turned out to be stronger (2:1).

Yaroslav Gladyshev, Konstantin Tyukavin, Daniil Fomin, Ivan Sergeev and El-Mehdi Maouhoub scored for Dynamo in these matches.

The meeting was entrusted to Igor Kaplenkov, who will be assisted by linesmen Alexey Stipidi and Egor Bolkhovitin. Ivan Abrosimov and Pavel Shadykhanov will be responsible for the video Referee Assistance System (VAR).

Previously, the 36-year-old referee from Moscow has never served blue and whites' matches.