The winner of the game took off in third place. Opponents knew about this. At least guessed. Everyone can count the numbers in a column. Soccer players too. And in the table, numbers are exactly a column. So, Dynamo and Moscow entered the field proudly. Fight for third place, after all.
Dynamo had the right to think of itself as a favorite. Recently, the team’s business is going well, points are pouring into the piggy bank regularly. Is there a problem in the attack? So everyone has a problem with her. But in defense order and with goalkeepers openwork. And to win, as it turns out, you can with Cicero.
“Moscow” has a different mood - bad. Pyrrhic triumph over CSKA turned fiasco. The team overestimated itself - and received from Khimki and Nalchik. And suddenly the combat personnel thinned. Bracamonte fell into the clutches of the Aesculapius, Barrientos and Adam were sentenced to "imprisonment" for hooliganism in the stadium. And the townspeople would have to play without forwards at all, and the almighty KDK had mercy - replaced Adamov’s real term with a probationary period. But Adam without Barrientos and Bracamonte is practically Cicero.
Games for third place are most often faceless. Observation generally refers to large sports forums. Or at least the final meetings of the long championship. But our heroes today can only dream about it. So they tried to make a typical match for third place out of their, frankly, ordinary meeting of the tenth round. Faceless and boring.
They started, however, vigorously. In the starting segment, they were active one by one, Shunin and Zhevnov were not allowed to languish. Even to Cicero. Which somehow once and completely contrived to score a scoring opportunity. Correctly so, methodologically soundly, as if he had been taught somewhere, wiped off the defender with his torso, threw the ball on the move - and, well, to the gate. He just didn’t have time to figure out how to beat Yop. And Yop immediately stopped the freezer.
Dynamo also worked well on the flanks of the Kombarovs. With the support of Danny and with the help of Khokhlov, the brothers regularly loaded the box with balls, creating sharpness. Two points turned out to be completely fraternal: Dmitry did not succeed in breaking through Cyril's discount, and Cyril blew Dmitry from a backache past an empty corner of the goal. They should have got Adamov there ... But Adamov was bored at the other end of the field - the flanks of Moscow had failed.
Junk with the townspeople and the center. Somewhere in the middle of the field Semak was lost, there was no use from Epuryan and Ivanov who had entrenched behind him. The last two now and then lost the selection, did not have time to cover Dynamo midfielders and abundantly exuded inaccurate programs. It was from their zone of influence that the episode with the Siseru race started, and from there the most dangerous moment of the first half was created, when after a long-range strike, somehow repulsed by Zhevnov, Danny finished the ball point blank - luckily for “Moscow”, Zhevnov saved the goal . A minute later, Slutsky nervously gazing at what was happening expelled Ivanov from the field of Rebezh.
On this danger ran out. From the 36th to the 90th minute, the opponents did not create anything interesting. And if the “Moscow” such a course of the game seemed to be on hand - a draw in the current state seemed to be the ultimate dream, then the suspended animation into which Dynamo fell could not be explained. Is it only in the heat. Only the heat-resistant Danny used an electric train to drive along and across the guest half of the field. The rest, apparently, were sintering.
Danny could be the hero of the meeting. Even the sun began to yawn from what was happening, when the Portuguese switched to a gallop, rushed off from two guardians and laid a diagonal blow to the far corner. Everyone gasped, Slutsky gasped - but the ball treacherously circled the bar outside. Because matches for the third place do not accept such outcomes.
... But the winner of this faceless something could indeed now stand third in the table.
Evgeny ZYRYANKIN
Dynamo - Moscow - 0: 0 (0: 0)
DYNAMO : Shunin, Klimavichyus (Tanasievich, 66), Kolodin, Fernandez, Granat, D. Kombarov, K. Kombarov, Semshov (Karpovich, 82), Danny, Siseru (Pimenov, 76), Khokhlov.
MOSCOW : Zhevnov, Godunok, Bystrov, Semak, Nababkin, Epuryanu (Golubov, 86), Kuzmin, Yop, Ivanov (Rebezha, 36), Golyshev (Chizhek, 65), Adamov.
Warnings : Klimavičius (60), Bystrov (62), Rebezh (66), Kolodin (88), Pimenov (90 + 1).
May 20 "Dynamo". 7 p.m.
Judge : Alexander Kolobaev (Moscow).