MOSCOW, May 29. Spartak Moscow beat Dynamo Moscow in the final of the Cup of Russia on football.
The meeting was held at the Moscow stadium «Luzhniki» in the presence of 69306 spectators and ended with a score of 2:1. In the 10th minute, the ball was scored by Spartak striker Alexander Sobolev, he dedicated the goal to his mother, who died in August 2020. Arsen Zakharyan equalized the score (55th minute), the ball flew into the goal after a rebound from Samuel Gigot, who played the last match for Spartak. Quincy Promes scored the win with 72. In the ninth minute compensated for the second half, Dynamo midfielder Daniil Fomin failed to convert a penalty. He shot above the goal, before that Fomin had converted 23 11-meter kicks in a row.
The match was a record attendance in the history of the tournament. The last achievement was set in 2006 — in the decisive match between CSKA and Spartak (3:0).
Spartak and Dynamo met for the second time in the national cup final, in 1950 the red-whites won 3-0. «Spartak» for the victory in the tournament will receive 40 million rubles, «Dynamo» — 10 million, half of these funds will go to the development of youth football.
This Cup of Russia was the 30th in history. «Spartak» started in the tournament from the 1/8 finals, as last season they got into European competition. Dynamo played in the same group with Orenburg and Dynamo Stavropol, the winners of each of the 11 groups advanced to the playoffs. On the way to the finals, Paolo Vanoli's team beat Krasnodar Kuban (6:1), CSKA (1:0) and Krasnoyarsk Yenisei (3:0), while the Blue and White defeated Nizhny Novgorod (3:0). ), Kaliningrad «Baltika» (1:1, 5:4 — on penalties) and Vladikavkaz «Alania» (3:0).
The previous time «Spartak» won the trophy in 2003, beating Rostov (1:0), the team now has four victories in the Russian Cup (1994, 1998, 2003, 2022). «Dynamo» became the winner of the tournament in 1995, having won in the decisive match against the Volgograd «Rotor» (0:0, 8:7 — on penalties).