Taisiya Razvorotneva tries to hit the goal of Lokomotiv
On Monday, September 9, 2024, at the VTB UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo, the youth team of the WFC Dynamo will host the WFC Lokomotiv U-21 as part of the 12th round of the final stage of the Youth League.
When does it start and where to watch
You can follow the progress of the match in the match center on our website, as well as in the club's social networks VKontakte and Telegram.
You can watch the live video broadcast of the game:
– in the official Super League account on VKontakte at this link
The match will start at 14:00 Moscow time.
As always, our girls are waiting for the support of Dynamo fans at the stadium. All home matches of the youth team of the WFC Dynamo this season are held at the training base in Novogorsk. You can find out how to get to VTB UTB Novogorsk-Dynamo and support the Dynamo girls here.
Entrance to the match with the Lokomotiv Women's Football Club will be 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.
Dynamo fans support the youth team at the match with WFC Spartak
Team status
In the previous round, the white-blues met another Moscow club in Sokolniki – WFC Spartak. Although the red-whites are new to the Youth League this season, before the meeting with Dynamo they were 7 points behind third place and even had a chance to win bronze medals. However, Spartak approached the face-to-face game with the white-blues with an unsuccessful streak: three defeats and one draw.
However, this did not prevent Ivan Kvasov's charges from running forward from the first minutes and creating a scoring opportunity at the very beginning of the match. Our defense, not without difficulty, dealt with this situation, but it immediately became clear that the game began without reconnaissance. This was confirmed by the following episode: the red-whites' footballer again found herself in a striking position, her shot had to be blocked by Anastasia Gnennaya.
The white-blues managed to contain the starting onslaught of the hosts and gradually level the game. Moreover, our girls started to make some good counterattacks. For example, in the middle of the first half, when Varvara Rubtsova, who had not played for the Dynamo youth team for a long time, made an amazing pass to Valeria Azeeva and put her practically one-on-one. Valeria shot, the opponent's goalkeeper slightly dampened the force of the shot, and Spartak's defenders defused the situation at their goal.
The opponents responded with equally sharp attacks in the 35th minute, where only the selfless play of the Dynamo girls in defense prevented the ball from crossing the goal line, and just before the whistle for the break, when the opponents earned the right to a penalty, but our girls coped with everything and went into the break with zeros on the scoreboard.
Unfortunately, Arina Taranchenko, who was playing her 50th official match for Dynamo in all tournaments, failed to keep her goal intact in this game. Once again, danger in the Dynamo penalty area arose after Spartak converted a set piece. Ksenia Kuleshova, who had just come on as a substitute, responded to a pass from her teammate from a free kick and sent the ball into our net, opening the scoring in this match.
However, the hosts not only failed to strengthen their advantage, which they had for most of the second half, but also helped their opponents to correct the critical situation at the end of the match. First, the red-and-white midfielder Ksenia Konovaeva lost control of her emotions and received two yellow cards in a row, leaving Spartak in the minority, and then Spartak made a mistake in their defensive actions. Anastasia Orlova received the ball in the penalty area from Kristina Yakovenko, beautifully left the home team's defender out of work and then leveled the score in this match with an accurate strike. In the remaining time, Mikhail Kobyakov's charges could have snatched victory in the derby, but there was very little time left, and the strength of the football players of both teams was already running out in such hot weather.
As a result, the match ended in a fighting draw (1:1), which the Dynamo team should be more satisfied with.
— Spartak started the match very actively, began to press us high. But we managed to push the game back and create a couple of dangerous moments of our own, which, in my opinion, should have ended in goals. Unfortunately, somewhere the physical condition was not enough. We began to sag in some positions. And the first half then went with varying success.
In the first minutes of the second half, we earned a not entirely logical foul, which led to a penalty near our goal and a missed goal. We managed to take control of the ball and create several good moments after the expulsion of a Spartak player. One of them ended with a goal scored by Anastasia Orlova.
Unfortunately, we did not bring the matter to a victory, although we could have done so in the last ten minutes, — summed up the derby results of the youth team of the Women's Football Club Dynamo Mikhail Kobyakov.
Of course, one of the heroines of the meeting in the Dynamo team, the goalkeeper of the white-blues Arina Taranchenko, could not help but share her emotions after the game:
— It is a great joy that there is an opportunity to play so many matches for such a great club as Dynamo.
If we talk about the game, we probably could have done better given the expulsion of the opponent. It seems to me that we could have played more forward, pressed when we were left with the majority. But the result is worthy, we earned points, which we so lack.
You can always view the tournament table of the final stage of the Youth League on our website using this link.
Anastasia Orlova celebrates a goal against the red-and-whites
About the opponent, history of the confrontation, refereeing team
The youth team of the WFC Lokomotiv, the opponent of the white-blues in the 12th round, has existed since 2020, and has been playing in the Youth League since 2021. In their first season in the youth championship, the railwaywomen took 6th place among 8 participants, and in the next one they became champions of the Youth League.
As we well remember, the 2022 season was the debut for the Women's Football Club Dynamo, which was then represented by a youth team. And it was the white-blues under the leadership of Sergei Lavrentiev who competed with the railwaywomen for the title until the last round, but the gold medals still went to the more experienced team under the leadership of Alexander Zayakin.
The post-championship season of 2023 was not so successful for the red-greens. The team made it into the top eight teams at the preliminary stage, but at the final stage it was unable to impose a fight on the leaders CSKA and Zenit in the championship race, and in the last round it lost at home to Krasnodar and even conceded the bronze medals to the southerners.
In the off-season, after the departure of head coach Alexander Zayakin, the youth team of Lokomotiv was headed by 53-year-old Nikolai Kovardaev, who should be well known to Dynamo fans from his work in men's football, in particular, with the youth teams of the white-blues in our famous Academy.
Having headed the youth team of the Women's Football Club Lokomotiv in March of this year, Nikolai Nikolaevich made his debut in women's football. As can be seen from the results, the debut can already be called a success: his team is the main favorite of the championship race in the Youth League.
The fact is that the team from Cherkizovo has not only not lost this year, but has not even lost points: 16 matches – 16 wins! The difference between goals scored and conceded looks no less fantastic – 69-4! Which is not surprising, considering that the railway team won 9 of the 16 matches they played against their opponents with a large score, and conceded their first goal only in the 8th match of the season.
The main stars of the current youth team of Lokomotiv are 16-year-old Polina Pavlova (15 goals in 15 matches), 20-year-old Ksenia Kaurova (11 goals in 12 matches), 18-year-old Sofia Stelmakhova (10 goals in 10 matches), 18-year-old Anna Solovieva (5 goals), 18-year-old Valeria Lushnikova (3 goals), 16-year-old Daria Abramova and 19-year-old Angelina Golik, as well as goalkeeper Ksenia Agapkina, who is actively involved in working with the main team. By the way, there are quite a few such football players in the youth team of Lokomotiv: the same Kaurova (5 matches, 1 goal), Solovieva (8 matches), Lushnikova (2 matches), as well as Azalia Zalmieva (8 matches, goal + assist) and Alisa Savina (1 match).
If there are no more Dynamo traces in the youth Lokomotiv, except on the coaching bridge, then in our youth team there are enough former representatives of the red-greens: these are defenders Anastasia Gnennaya (2021-2023: 32 matches, 6 goals, champion of the Youth League-2022), Darya Guskova (2023: 7 matches) and Anastasia Orlova (2022: 6 matches, 1 goal, champion of the Youth League-2022). They are also in the main team: the same Kaylan Williams, Elina Samoilova and Alexandra Nesterovich, who is currently on loan at the Belarusian WFC Vitebsk, played for the teams of the WFC Lokomotiv in different years. And, of course, we cannot fail to mention the press attaché of the Dynamo youth team, Kristina Kokaeva, who previously held the position of press attaché of the Lokomotiv Women's Football Club for several seasons.
As for the history of the confrontation between the two clubs, there have also been a decent number of face-to-face meetings - a total of 5 matches have already been played between the two clubs. True, almost all of them are in favor of Lokomotiv: 4 wins, 1 loss, goal difference 12-3. The last and so far only victory of the white-blues (2:1) over the railway workers was recorded in the distant October of 2022, when Dynamo and Lokomotiv were just fighting for the gold of the Youth League. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then.
Kristina Yakovenko under close guard from Lokomotiv defenders
Well, the new, already fourth meeting of the two clubs within the Youth League, which will take place in Novogorsk, will be officiated by the refereeing team headed by Maria Tkacheva, who will be assisted by assistant referees Oksana Likhacheva and Kristina Lapshina (all from Moscow).
Previously, Tkacheva has worked at Dynamo matches: in the Youth League - against WFC CSKA (0:3) and WFC Strogino (0:0); in the Super League - twice against the current opponent, WFC Lokomotiv, but the main team (twice 0:2).
Dynamo's win-loss record with Tkacheva as referee: 4 matches - 3 losses, one draw, goal difference 0-7.