How easily Dynamo dealt with Yuran’s team!
Dmitry Zimin April 21, 2024, 16:25 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Paris NN is a disaster in defense. Maybe rumors about the appointment of a head coach at Spartak will interfere?
A few days ago, Marcel Licka eliminated Dynamo from the championship race. An obvious statement considering three losses in a row. The main one said that the team would try to finish in the top three. The Cup is also important. It is difficult to imagine whether these words had any effect on the players. Maybe they relieved the tension. But in the match against Paris NN we not only saw a terrible defense from the home team, but also a solid attack from the guests. It’s like we’re going back to a time when Dynamo was among the contenders for the title.
This spring things are not going well for Sergei Yuran’s team. Paris NN also lost the last three matches, but that’s not all: the coach himself received a two-match disqualification (suspended), plus he received a year’s probation for insulting the referees. It is curious that during most of the match he reacted ironically to what happened: when he addressed his assistants, he put his hand to his face defiantly. So that no one hears the words. And the punishment did not become real.
Lichka was a little surprised by the choice of the lineup: the absence of Laxalt in the starting lineup is a very rare thing this season. But this time they came out without him: Chávez and Fomin were in the support zone, and the game ahead should traditionally have been determined by Bitello, Carrascal and Ngamalyo. Despite all the rumors about foreigners who supposedly relaxed, about conflicts in the locker room, the coach did not send any of them to the reserve. And the boys did not disappoint the Czech.
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Dinamo already at the beginning of the match took the ball and the initiative and little by little increased the pressure on the home team’s defense. At first it was not so obvious: the residents of Nizhny Novgorod managed it. But what caught the attention was the total absence of counterattacking play. In the first 20 minutes, the Paris NN players hardly moved to the other half of the field. Not to mention the moments and the impacts. Did they really just want to defend themselves and score zeros? This almost never happens with Dynamo.
Licka’s team created the first moment of danger in the 25th minute, when Ngamalyo made a comfortable pass to Carrascal, who was accelerating towards the free area of the area, and the Colombian shot from almost point-blank range. But Nigmatullin saved. Another seven minutes passed and the goalkeeper couldn’t do anything. Carrascal himself made a great cross into the area, Tyukavin raised his head and the ball fell to the corner.
Konstantin Tyukavin
Photo: FC Dynamo
It seemed that the lost goal would at least cheer up the Nizhny Novgorod team a little. But this did not happen: nothing worked in attack, but in defense there were more free zones. At the end of the half Dinamo took advantage of this. Carrascal assisted again and found Fomin with a great pass, who gracefully placed Kakkoev on the grass and scored the second from very close range.
During the break, Yuran made three changes at once. And at the beginning of the half, it seemed like Paris NN’s game had really changed. They had the ball more frequently and in the 53rd minute Kalinsky missed a good opportunity to reduce the gap. The locals needed only one goal to come back. But they didn’t have time to write it down. And in the 57th minute, Fernández practically ended the game: a corner kick and the Paraguayan scored the third goal without resistance.
Roberto Fernandez
Photo: FC Dynamo
And very soon Bitello made the score very big. Paris NN simply has an abnormal number of goals conceded. 13 – in the last four games. In comparison, after round 21 there were only 15 left.
In the end, with the help of video review, the hosts still lowered the score. Kalinsky himself converted the penalty. But even after that, Dynamo was much closer to the fifth goal than Nizhny Novgorod was to the second: Skopintsev hit the post, and Grulev could not react to the rebound.
Dinamo scored 41 points. Five points for Krasnodar. So now the most important thing is to stay in third place. And “Paris NN” with 28 points was in tenth place. And, given how active all the outsiders have become, it’s too early for Yuran’s team to relax.
