Without brilliance: how Tyukavin's double helped the Russian youth team win a second victory in Minsk

Permutations of Galaktionov

In the match with Kazakhstan, the head coach of the Russian national team, Mikhail Galaktionov, did not deviate from the 4-3-3 scheme, but made many personnel changes, updating the starting line-up by almost 50%.

From the first minutes, one of the main characters of the meeting with Belarus came out - the right lateral Daniil Denisov, the defensive midfielder Artyom Karpukas and the left winger Vladislav Yakovlev.

They were accompanied by goalkeeper Stanislav Agkatsev and central defender Alexander Kutitsky.

However, most of them failed to show themselves as brightly.

First of all, this concerns Denisov, who scored two assists and Yakovlev, who hit the gates of the Belarusians.

The first one practically did not make raids to someone else's penalty area and did not please with branded cutting passes, and the second did not feel very comfortable in the top three with Konstantin Tyukavin and Vladislav Gladyshev.

Largely due to the inability to accelerate.

Most of the first half, the Russians were forced to attack positionally and it turned out far from the best way.

However, the problems were not limited to the lack of specifics ahead.

In their half of the field, Galaktionov's wards also experienced difficulties and could well be in the role of catching up.

The closest to a goal was Maxim Samorodov - the most valuable player of the Kazakh youth team according to Transfermarkt (€500,000).

The winger opened up in a killer position, but Agkatsev managed his first shot, and the second turned out to be inaccurate.

Dynamo connection

In a difficult situation, the role of leaders was taken by two current bronze medalists of the Russian Championship.

Konstantin Tyukavin and Yaroslav Gladyshev demonstrated excellent mutual understanding even during the meeting with Belarus and did not slow down in the confrontation with Kazakhstan.

True, if then the duet from Dynamo took 13 minutes to force the opponent's goalkeeper to capitulate, this time it took them a third of an hour more.

But this time they were not limited to one goal.

With a difference of seven minutes, Gladyshev and Tyukavin organized two goals against the Kazakhs.

In the first case, Yaroslav made a timely dash into the goalkeeper's area and rolled back under a smashing blow to his partner, and then helped Konstantin earn an 11-meter one.

Let his throw did not allow the captain to go one on one with Temirlan Anarbekov, but he forced the defender of nominal guests to break the rules.

The victim himself struck into the corner and scored a double.

The striker confirmed the status of the leader and completed the Belarusian training camp in the status of the best scorer of the team (three goals).

Bad second half

During the break, out of habit, Galaktionov made many substitutions, and by the 57th minute there was not a single representative of the start left on the field, while only Lokomotiv goalkeeper Daniil Khudyakov was bored on the bench.

However, it was not possible to achieve the same effect as in the confrontation with Belarus.

If then a series of reshuffles noticeably revived the game of the national team and helped it to win one of the biggest victories in its history, then this time such a transformation did not happen.

The Russians did not have an impressive second half and experienced serious difficulties ahead.

Marriage in programs, lack of mutual understanding, inability to increase the pace and not the brightest performance of Nikita Ermakov, who was enchanting a couple of days ago - all this led to the fact that in the second half the Russian team practically did not create dangerous moments at the gates of Kazakhstan.

In regular time, you can only remember the race of Sergei Volkov.

The flank defender of Krasnodar responded to the transfer of Vladislav Shitov and went to a rendezvous with the goalkeeper, but struck extremely ingenuously.

Finally lubricated the impression missed the ball in the 86th minute.

The failure in the support zone allowed Nurgaini Buribaev not only to receive the ball a few meters from the penalty area of ​​the nominal hosts, but also to deliver an accurate shot into the near corner.

Kirill Kravtsov, who received the captain's armband during the meeting, did not have time to prevent him from breaking through, Vladislav Torop was powerless.

Already in stoppage time, the same Shitov could increase the gap in the score, but disposed of his chance almost as unsuccessfully as Volkov.

As a result, the Russian team still retained the advantage and prevailed over the Kazakhstan team, but after the break, the quality of the game left much to be desired.