Hot Moscow derby in the KHL: Dynamo did not notice Spartak on their ice

Athletistic/Hockey. On December 20, a Fonbet KHL Championship match was held in Moscow, in which Dynamo hosted Spartak. The blue and white won with the score of 5:2.

The hosts scored in the 5th minute through a Jordan Weale shot assisted by Brennan Menell. A minute later, Pavel Kudryavtsev doubled the hosts’ advantage with assists from Jordan Weal and Brennan Menell. In the 17th minute of the first period, Maxim Chudinov reduced the gap to the score.

In the second period, the teams succeeded with no dropped goals.

At the start of the third period, Dynamo defender Kirill Gotovets scored twice in 22 seconds and made it 4-1. In the 12th minute of the third period, the second puck for the guests of the game was scored by Shane Prince from the transfer of Alexander Khokhlacheva. At the end of the match, Maxim Dzhioshvili set the final score by scoring into an empty net.

It’s like that Kirill Gotovets reacted to his brace in the game with Spartak: “I wouldn’t say I’m the hero of the game. The whole team worked well, Konoval saved us several times, kept us in the game. That’s a team victory. As for my brace, I usually have it, it was not the case in a professional career, not to mention the fact that he scored two goals in 22 seconds. Child, of course, he scored both two and three, but not so fast.

An interesting point. After the second goal they yelled at me from the bench to stay in the third team, but that would have been too much. In the episode with the first goal, even I didn’t really see how the puck flew there. In the second goal, the puck bounced off me just as well and the goalkeeper was well covered not to see the moment of the shot.

Dynamo head coach Alexei Kudashov after the victorious match against Spartak (5-2), he declared not to have been surprised by the double of Gotovets: “I was not surprised by the double of Gotovets. after his first goal?

The absence of Kodola in the workforce after a brilliant match for the national team? If you saw the last games before the break, when Wil wasn’t there, then he played on that line and played normally. His absence is just a rotation. Today we have central players, so he was allowed to blow after the national team.

The atmosphere was great, maybe because there was a match today, but in the end we saw a full stadium. The fans supported us and Spartak, thanks to them for that. This atmosphere gives everything an extra boost.

As for hockey, it would be correct to characterize it as follows: not spectacular, but effective. Not everything worked out in terms of quality of play, but at the right time they did the right thing.

How has having a day off after national teams helped our collections? Naturally, it was beneficial, but if you look at the CPC schedule, you will see that the Russian team played two days in a row and Belarus played every other day, so they had a normal schedule. And so, of course, the guys had an extra day off, because they were in the rhythm of the game, and at the same time they had a day off.

Spartak coach Igor Grischine after the derby he congratulated the opponent for the victory: “I think it still turned out to be a good match, but of course it’s a shame for us that the score was quite big. We didn’t didn’t give up, we tried to change the game, and in the second half it even worked somewhere, but it was worth playing more aggressively in the shooting activity and under the net in the shooting activity of the defenders. It gave a result.

Nothing happened in the third period, everything was like in the first period. Maybe in the second half there was a different picture, when we played more actively, but Dynamo used the chances they had correctly. Their defenders shot very quickly on goal, without any improvement in position, they just picked up the puck and threw it, and, as a result, worked on the penny, covering the goalie. It turns out that accurate shots were obtained, which they flew.

Everything in the game was the same as in the retromatch. The game is the game. We know the Dynamo, this team plays powerful power hockey, with the defense pushing, they climb on the nickel, they try to crush it. And we try to show our game, today they did better than us. The only thing is that the bill turned out to be quite large.