Dynamo footballers defend their goal
In the 9th round of the final stage of the Youth League our women's youth team went to visit the WFC Master-Saturn in Yegoryevsk.
In the last match, which took place on August 2, Dynamo won their long-awaited first victory in the second part of the championship. The girls from Samara's Krylia Sovetov were defeated. The only goal in that match was scored by Daniella Petrova, confidently converting a penalty.
So in today's match, Mikhail Kobyakov's team was only focused on winning. Moreover, they wanted to please the birthday girl: Ksenia Skotnikova turned 18 today.
Speaking about the opponents, it is worth noting their series of four matches without defeat: three wins and one draw.
Already in the first minutes of the match, the teams exchanged dangerous moments after a penalty kick. And if Dynamo managed to hit the target, then the opponents' ball went wide. In the 7th minute of the first half, Polina Kolesnikova decided to take a long shot: slightly inaccurate. Our girls created the next dangerous moment a couple of moments later. Nastya Gnennaya went to press the opponent's defender to the end and managed to shoot from an acute angle. The ball hit the net, but from the outside.
Our girls increasingly had possession of the ball and created an advantage for themselves. In the 22nd minute, Kristina Yakovenko did a great job in the home team's penalty area, beat the defender. shot into the near corner: powerfully, tightly and accurately. But the Saturn goalkeeper reacted well and did not allow the scoring to be opened in this match.
In the counterattack, the Moscow Region footballers could have created danger, but our goalkeeper already took the lead: Masha Leontyeva played reliably on the exit and got ahead of the home team's forward Sofia Nemtseva.
Yakovenko was very active throughout the first half. Once again, her actions forced the Master-Saturn defender to make a mistake, but she was unable to outplay the opponent's goalkeeper. The goal seemed to be getting closer: our girls were obviously leading this game. The football players from Yegoryevsk were waiting for their chance on the counterattack, but our defensive line was reliable. However, the score was not opened in the first half.
The Dynamo youth team before the start of the match with the WFC Master-Saturn
The second half began with attacks from Dynamo players again. The matter remained in the precise last strike, which did not reach the target. The Master-Saturn football players did not stand aside and snapped back. In the 59th minute, the striker of the home team’s attacker took the shot on the post of our goal.
The next moment was ours: Kolesnikova burst into the penalty area and shot into the near corner. The Saturn goalkeeper managed to fold and parry this shot.
In the 64th minute of the match, the Moscow Region football players opened the scoring in the match, taking advantage of the not very coordinated actions of our girls in defense. This was done by the same Nemtseva. This goal did not follow the pattern of the game, which, it would seem, was controlled by today's guests.
After the goal was scored, the football players from Yegoryevsk seemed to have seized the initiative. It was clear that the Dynamo players could not come to their senses for some time.
Nastya Orlova tried to take control of the game and shot more and more often from a long distance. The goalkeeper, not without difficulty, coped with such shots. The Dynamo players understood that it was extremely important to recoup, but sometimes excessive desire did not play into the hands of our girls, unforced errors began to appear more and more often.
At the end of the match, Ulyana Golovanova entered the game, for our young footballer - this is the debut for the youth team.
In the already added time, the home team earned the right to a penalty, which ended with an accurate beautiful shot, which put an end to this match. The result of the match is 0:2.
We are losing in Yegoryevsk and now we are preparing for a meeting with the current champions of the Youth League - WFC CSKA.
For full details on the starting lineups and events of the match, see the match centre.
Valeria Azeeva in a fight with the defender of WFC Master-Saturn
The next match of Dynamo U-21 will be played on August 25 – in Novogorsk against the youth team of the WFC CSKA. The match will start at 11:00 Moscow time.
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