The game in Bryansk is the undisputed champion of the week in pre-match excitement. The fact that all ten thousand tickets disappeared from the stadium ticket offices an hour and a half after their opening, football Russia learned at the end of last week. Yesterday, Bryansk surprised again: the whole team went to the church to touch the holy relics of St. Spyridon, brought to the city on these days. Both the players and the public were unanimous: the historical ascent of the local football team would not have been possible without miraculous help.
On the day of the game, the epicenter of surprise shifted to Moscow fans. For the second time in six months, Moscow confirmed that it is an excellent corporate organization.
Last season, two dozen fans were carefully taken by the club to travel to Vladivostok for a more than symbolic bribe - 6 thousand rubles from the nose. This time the fans “untwisted” their captain in full. Sergey Semak, who owns an expensive car rental company, provided fans with two limousines - of course, with significant discounts. 40 fans sat down in sausage-like machines, decorated them with the Moscow banner and went straight to Bryansk.
The idea is funny, but not fresh. A few years ago, fans of CSKA already drove to Yaroslavl in a limousine, having fixed on its board the poster "Rob, fuck, rest."
Dynamo head coach Soferbiy Yeshugov until recently was known exclusively in the southern regions of Russia. Having brought the Maykop “Friendship” to the first league in 1991, he was awarded the rare title “Honored Coach of Adygea”. However, he managed to become truly famous only in 2004. Upset Andrei Solomatin, expelled by Yeshugov from Kuban, spoke about the working methods of the new Krasnodar coach. Especially interesting, according to the player, the defense was built. In it, players were assigned unique nicknames: Sunny, Paperclip, Sunflower and Trap.
It is not known which callsign Yeshugov came up with for the Bryansk defenders, but this brings the result. Dynamo defensive statistics this year: 6 goals conceded in 11 matches. In the game against Moscow, this baggage was replenished with only one goal. Moreover, the "townspeople" used for this the only moment that fell to them throughout the game.
Pablo Barrientos - according to Leonid Slutsky, “a mood player” - that evening was in a good mood and gave in as he should: relaxed and accurate. The young Argentine was not even embarrassed by the absence of his senior comrade Bracamonte, who at that moment was admiring his newborn daughter at home. One of the programs of Barentos, who had not lost inspiration, dispersed the attack along the left flank, from where Adam shot in the penalty area right on the foot of Semak, who was on the run.
On this attacking fuse of "Moscow" was exhausted.
The main and, perhaps, the only trump card of the hosts - incredible teamwork - drowned most of the Moscow attacks in midfield. Due to the modest budget, there are a dozen players in Yeshugov’s cage, among whom only two or three can pull the strap of a local star. So, the central defender Dzhincharadze monitored order in the defense and constantly crushed his midfield so that she could move ahead more actively. In the middle of the second half, the Georgians, who are probably compared to Zinedine Zidane for the qualities of a leader and hairstyle in Bryansk, were injured and, limping badly, left the field. The team’s creative game almost stopped there.
Two other stars played closer to the gates of others. 35-year-old Sergei Filippenkov - a living reminder of the Dolmatov silver of CSKA - tried to cut through the flank, and Cameroonian scorer Buli played the role of a striker. It was these two who could bring Dynamo to a very sensational finale even before Bryansk got an own goal. However, the ball, fired from outside the penalty area, hit the frame in the goal - first into the cross, and ten minutes later into the post.
However, Buli - perhaps the coolest player among the Bryansk upstarts - still got his way. For the third year, the thin-legged forward has been playing at Dynamo and, after last year becoming his top scorer (12 goals), clearly wants to be promoted. Decent stroke, jet speed and - I can not believe it - the desire to work out from behind converted the efforts of the 26-year-old Cameroonian into a goal. After a cross from the flank, the Bryansk striker Shelyutov decided to hit through himself, but his “scissors” turned out to be blunt, and the ball flew away from the goal. However, Buli, jumping to the far post, skillfully sharpened the blow.
The return goal lit up the Bryansk arena with a fiery flame (the Dynamo torsida again set up a fire show), and the hearts of local fans with hope. 1: 1 - the score, which means the continuation of fantasy about the unknown poor from the first league.
The degree of completion of this work will be known in a week in Moscow.
Peter STEPANOV
DYNAMO Bryansk - MOSCOW - 1: 1 (0: 1)
Goals: 0: 1 - Semak (36), 1: 1 - Buli (56).
DYNAMO: Alekseev, Kovalev, Terentyev, Larin, Kutas, Malin, Dzhincharadze (Tolstoy, 72), Buli, Fomichev (Sannikov, 90 + 2), Shelyutov (Golovin, 64), Filippenkov.
MOSCOW: Zhevnov, Godunok, Barrientos (Ivanov, 84), Rebezh, Goravsky (Bystrov, 67), Rack, Semak, Epuryanu, Adamov (Golubov, 58), Kuzmin, Krunich.
Warnings: Epuryanu (5), Krunich (20), Adamov (29), Buli (38), Kuzmin (87).
May 2. "Dynamo". 6 p.m.
Judge: Alexander Evstigneev (Korolev).