ROSGOSSTRAKH Youth Championship 2015/16, Matchday 30
FC Dynamo Moscow U21 vs FC Zenit Saint Petersburg U21 – 0:0 (0:0)
Dynamo: Leshchuk (C), Matviychuk (Nenakhov, 73), Kalugin, Klimov, Mayorskiy, Mogulkin, Lyovin, Kuzmin (Burykin, 69), Saramutin (Lelyukhin, 46), Grulyov (Sedykh, 46), N. Obolskiy
Substitutes: Zirikov, Rebrikov, Gorbulin, Yevgenyev, Kireev, Sholokh, M. Obolskiy, Kanavin
Head coach: Kirill Novikov
Zenit: Rudakov (C), Slashchyov, Shalimov, Mareyev, Krugovoy, Zuyev (Kozlov, 58), Gorulyov, Kirillov, Pletnyov, Andreyev, Krapukhin
Substitutes: Vasyutin, Kizeyev, Tarasov, Sumin, Vodyannikov, Ponikarov, Ivanov
Head coach: Igor Simutenkov
Match officials: Alexey Amelin (Tula), Maxim Sobolev (Moscow), Viktor Medvedev (Moscow)
Yellow card: Kuzmin (62)
May 20, 2016 – 12:00. Khimki. Rodina Stadium. 150 spectators
Kirill Novikov, FC Dynamo U21 head coach:
- The game turned out to be interesting. Both teams played carefully in the first half and after the break we gained an advantage over our opponent and we wanted to win. My players created a lot of chances, which they didn’t manage to convert into goals. In comparison with the previous season our squad renewed by 90%. With that in mind we made a good step forward and we had an opportunity to capture golden medals in the championship. However, the last defeat in Krasnodar deprived us of the final success. We are still in the fight for the top-3 and we did whatever it takes in this situation.
This season Dynamo have one of the youngest youth teams. And we had to compete with the players a year or two older. I think we did a good job and the guys played the season very well. Of course, during the first part of the championship they had to get along with each other, improve the interaction, get accustomed to pace and speed. Since the second half began, we picked up a good pace and won 9 matches out of 12. But the lack of points in the first half of the season did not allow us to become champions.
As for the upcoming match of the first team, this is a crucial game and we will come for sure to support them in a group. We invite the fans to follow our example.