The meeting of the 13th round of the Russian Premier League World, which took place in Khimki, ended with a score of 4:3 in favor of the blue-whites
To the delight of Dynamo fans, Konstantin Tyukavin recovered from his injury in time, so for the first time this season Marcel Licka repeated the starting lineup of the previous round, where the blue-whites defeated Rubin.
The beginning of the match was not at the highest speeds and with mistakes in passes. The Khimki players timely stopped Dynamo's attacks with minor and not so minor fouls — if Vasily Kazartsev spared Robert Mejía who had committed a rough tackle on Bitello, then Sergey Terekhov received a well-deserved yellow card for a foul on Nicolas Ngakale.
Dynamo players scored a couple of shots from medium distance. First, Daniil Fomin hit the defender after a clever corner kick, and a little later Bitello shot into the goalkeeper's hands. Arthur twisted his compatriot Aurélio a couple of times on the flank, but his crosses were always interrupted by defenders
The success of our team was brought by the standard. The Khimki players managed to clear the ball after a corner kick, but the Dynamo players played better on the rebound: Nicolás Marichal headed the ball to Fomin, who caught it on his chest and accurately shot into the near corner. The home team immediately equalized — Zabolotny won the long throw-in, Lucas Vera passed the ball to himself and drove it into the net from close range — 1:1.
Already in injury time of the first half, the teams exchanged goals again. First, Zabolotny once again won the aerial battle after a deep throw-in and dropped the ball to Zelimkhan Bakaev, who handled it and shot unstoppably into the far top corner. But then N'Gamaлё found himself alone on the right flank, crossed into the center of the penalty area, where Roberto Fernández put his foot in, sending the ball exactly into the left bottom corner of Nikita Kokarev's goal — 2:2.
The second half began with Tyukavin's first shot on target in the match — Kostya entered the penalty area and shot into the near corner, where the goalkeeper parried it. In the 50th minute, the Dynamo players took the lead again: Fomin made a cutting pass into the penalty area, Bitello dribbled the ball past the goalkeeper, and Artur already put it into an empty net
There was no response goal this time. The Dynamo players calmed the game down a bit and started to play on the counterattacks. Only in the 71st minute, Licka made the first substitutions: Bitello and Tyukavin left the field, while Jorge, Carrascal, and El-Mehdi Maouhoub came on.
The Moroccan forward almost immediately scored an effective action. Artur ran almost half the length of the field with the ball and passed it from the very goal line to Maouhoub, who pushed it further to Ngama'le, and Nicolas shot at the goal. Khimki responded a minute later — Bakaev crossed into the center of the penalty area, Butta Magomedov struck in touch, and the ball ricocheted off Alexander Kutitsky and flew into the goal.
The nerve of the game lasted until the last minutes. Khimki had their best chance to catch up already in stoppage time when Kirill Panchenko headed the ball to the far post, where Andrey Lunyov just beat Danil Stepanov at the last second. Then Yaroslav Gladyshev could have put the finishing touches, but his shot hit Kokarev.
Dynamo scored 26 points and moved up to fourth place in the standings. Now, on November 1, the blue-whites will play at home against Rostov
