Galina Geybieva vs. CSKA midfielder Veronika Ermakova in an away match this season
On Sunday, August 25, 2024, at the VTB UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo, the youth team of the WFC Dynamo will host the WFC CSKA U-21 as part of the 10th round of the final stage of the Youth League.
When does it start and where to watch
To follow the progress of the game, you can visit our website's match center, as well as the club's social media pages on VKontakte and Telegram.
The live video broadcast of the game will be available:
— in the official account of the Super League on VKontakte via this link
The game starts at 11:00 Moscow time.
As always, our girls are looking forward to the support of Dynamo fans at the stadium. All home matches of the Dynamo Women's Youth Team this season are held at the training base in Novogorsk. How to get to VTB UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo and support the Dynamo girls, you can find out here.
Admission to the match against CSKA WFC is free
Fan ID is not required to enter the stands!
You can always view the full schedule of home and away matches of the Dynamo youth team in the 2024 season here.
Team status
In the previous round, the white-blues went on an away trip to Yegoryevsk near Moscow for a match with the Women's Football Club Master-Saturn. The team from the Moscow Region approached the match with the white-blues with a solid series of four matches without defeat: three wins and one draw.
Already in the first minutes of the match, the teams exchanged dangerous moments. And while Dynamo managed to shoot on target, the opponents' ball went wide.
The opening segment of the match showed that it was our team that increasingly possessed the ball and created an advantage for itself. The most active player in the white-blues was Kristina Yakovenko, who created several good moments for herself and could have opened the scoring in the match, but each time she failed to beat the opponents' goalkeeper.
Despite the goalless first half, the game still created the feeling that a Dynamo goal was brewing. Our girls were obviously leading the game, and the football players from Yegoryevsk were waiting for their chance on the counterattack, while acting reliably in defense.
The second half again began with attacks by the Dynamo football players. The white-blues were constantly lacking an accurate final strike, which never reached the target. But the Master-Saturn players snapped back time after time and constantly created tension at the gate of Maria Leontyeva.
One of such attacks by the Moscow Region team ended with a goal in our goal. In the 64th minute, the Moscow Region football players took advantage of the Dynamo players' poorly coordinated actions in defense, and the score in the match was opened by Master-Saturn forward Sofia Nemtseva.
The goal turned the game around and the Moscow Region team seized the initiative. After the Dynamo players came to their senses after the missed goal, Mikhail Kobyakov's charges began to take the game more and more often and shoot from a long distance. The hosts' goalkeeper Elizaveta Larchenkova, not without difficulty, dealt with these shots. But excessive desire did not play into the hands of our girls, they began to sin more and more with unforced errors, which hindered them in attack and created difficulties in defensive actions.
The home team put the finishing touches to the match in stoppage time: they earned the right to a penalty kick, which ended with an accurate and beautiful strike by Sofia Bogodelshchikova.
The result of the meeting - 0:2 - recorded the sixth defeat of Dynamo in the final stage of the Youth League and left the white-blues in the last place of the tournament table.
— We played well in the first half. In the second, the game also worked, but individual errors in attacking actions began. We created dangerous moments, everything was according to the plan that we prepared for the game. And it basically worked. Somewhere individual skill did not allow us to realize the moments. Well, and two missed goals... The second, you could say, was scored against us "on the whistle".
Unfortunately, we have already accumulated many such matches: when we play quite well, creatively, combinations are going, the game plan works, but individual mistakes lead us to such defeats. These are not the defeats where we were rolled over by a steamroller, we just make unnecessary mistakes, — said the head coach of the youth team of the WFC Dynamo Mikhail Kobyakov about the reasons for the defeat.
You can always view the tournament table of the final stage of the Youth League on our website using this link.
The Dynamo youth team before the start of the match with Master-Saturn at the colorful stadium in Egoryevsk near Moscow
About the opponent, former players and history of the confrontation, the refereeing team
The youth team of the WFC CSKA, the opponent of the white-blues in the 10th round, is the current champion and currently the most titled club of the Youth League, which has existed since 2021. In two of the three seasons held, it was the youth team of CSKA that won, and the youth team of Lokomotiv won another title - just in the 2022 season, when Dynamo debuted and fought with the railway women for gold medals until the last round.
The relationship between the youth team of CSKA and the Youth League is interesting. If the red-blues do not win gold medals in the youth championship, then they do not win anything! So, having taken youth gold in 2021 and 2023, in 2022 the army team did not even get into the top three. Moreover, the youth team of CSKA showed its worst result in history that season - 7th place.
But that was a long time ago and it seems not with the red-blues, because right now they are the current champions again and, at the very least, contenders for medals. Yes, it will be very difficult to catch up with Lokomotiv, which has gone far (the gap is already 12 points), but the army team is definitely capable of fighting for a place in the top three.
CSKA began its performance this season as one of the main favorites. The red-blues won their group at the preliminary stage without any problems: 6 wins in 6 matches over Rostov, Ryazan-VDV and Baltika (5 of them large), the goal difference is 32-3. They also started the fight for medals at the final stage of the Youth League with great success: they confidently beat Dynamo (3:1) and Krylia Sovetov (3:0) at home, and Rubin Kazan (1:0) away.
But then the problems began. In the next 5 games, CSKA won only one victory (3:0 over Spartak) and suffered 4 defeats. Moreover, the army footballers lost not only to their direct competitors in the fight for medals (Lokomotiv, Krasnodar and Zenit), but also to Master-Saturn, which is not yet a contender for medals. So, if the army youth team does not want to prematurely say goodbye to their dreams of the championship, it is contraindicated for them to lose points. Moreover, before the finish line of the season, CSKA will face matches with teams that will no longer be able to reach medals: Dynamo (alas), Rubin, Krylia Sovetov, and perhaps by that time Master-Saturn too.
Fortunately, there are people in the army club who can bring points to the team. The main characters of the youth CSKA in the 2024 season, in addition to 38-year-old coach Kirill Shestakov, who led the club to the championship last season: 17-year-old midfielder Marine Achoyan (8 goals in 6 matches), who also plays for the adult CSKA in the Super League, 16-year-old forward Kristina Kutafina (7 goals), 19-year-old midfielder Vera Eremenko (4 goals), defender Anastasia Pecherskaya and forwards Anastasia Samsonyuk and Victoria Sogrina, who scored 3 goals each, the main goalkeeper of the youth team 18-year-old Anastasia Asabina (6 clean sheets in 9 games).
It is interesting that this season, 7 CSKA players played for both the main and youth teams. In addition to the already named Achoyan (7 matches - for the main team, 5 - for the youth team) and Samsonyuk (4 / 6), there are Anastasia Ananyeva (11 / 1), Aksinya Gomenko (1 / 9), Veronika Ermakova (9 / 6), Dayana Kishmakhova (9 / 3) and even the star legionnaire from Cameroon Tatyana Ewodo Ekogo (4 / 2).
While there are no former Dynamo players in the army team, there is currently a whole group of former CSKA football players playing in the Dynamo team: defender Valentina Senoedova (2021-2022, 11 matches), midfielders Nicole Greuli (2021-2022, 7 matches) and Taisiya Razvorotneva (2020-2022, 10 matches), forward Ksenia Skotnikova (2021-2023, 9 matches). All of them became champions of the Youth League as part of the army club, so for them, the upcoming meetings with their former team will be additionally motivated.
As for the history of the confrontation between the two clubs, there have already been a decent number of personal meetings, both official in the Youth League and friendly. The indicators are almost equal: 3 wins for Dynamo, 3 wins for CSKA, goal difference 9-13. The top scorer of the confrontation is still Kristina Yakovenko - she has 4 goals to her credit. However, despite the equality in personal meetings, it should still be noted that Dynamo's last victory over CSKA in official games took place more than two years ago - on July 9, 2022. Then, the away victory over the current champions was brought to Sergei Lavrentyev's team by the only and very beautiful goal by Galina Geybieva in the middle of the first half.
A magnificent flight for the ball by WFC Dynamo goalkeeper Arina Taranchenko
Well, the new, fourth in history, meeting of the two clubs within the Youth League, which will take place in Novogorsk, will be officiated by the refereeing team headed by Yulia Veselova (Moscow region), who will be assisted by assistant referees Alena Berdnikova (St. Petersburg) and Oksana Likhacheva (Moscow).
Veselova has previously worked at Dynamo matches: in the Youth League - against WFC Ryazan-VDV (2:0), Ural (2:1), Krasnodar (0:0), Zvezda-2005 (1:0) and Spartak (1:3); in the Super League - against WFC Zvezda-2005 (1:3) and Rubin (2:0).
Dynamo's record with Veselova as referee: 7 matches - 4 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses, goal difference 9-7.