Champions League hunt: Dynamo Moscow

With ten matches left in the Rosgosstrakh Football Championship, the hunt for Champions League spots is one of the closest we’ve seen in the sport for quite some time.

After looking at Rubin Kazan earlier, the next in line is Dynamo Moscow.

Without question, should the White-Blues not overtake Rubin Kazan they will look back on the last two matches, where they gave four points in drawing to Spartak Moscow and FC Moscow. It is no secret that they were my choice at the Euro break to take the title and these mental lapses in play is highly uncharacteristic of Andrey Kobelev’s squad

Dynamo Moscow remaining schedule
Sat. 13 @ Rubin Kazan
Sep 20 YFK Shinnik Yaroslav
Sep 27 @ Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Oct 4 Saturn Moscow
Oct 19 @ Terek Grozny
Oct 26 CSKA Moscow
Nov 3 @ Lokomotiv Moscow
Nov 9 Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
Nov 16 @ Zenit St Petersburg
Nov 22 Tom’ Tomsk

Quite obviously the upcoming six-point match against Rubin Kazan is the line in the sand. Without a victory the chances of overtaking them would require a complete collapse on their part. This is going to be doubly hard as the league leaders are very tough at home, however in do or die situations, champions are made. Needless to say, that is the match of the week. Dynamo Moscow does have an interesting advantage over Zenit Saint Petersburg and CSKA Moscow, as both squads are burdened with Champions League / UEFA Cup matches and and have numerous players within Guus Hiddink’s squad and could contribute to fatigue. Dynamo has only Denis Kolodin and Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow).

Beyond the Rubin Kazan match, they face extremely tough tests against Samara Kryliya Sovetov, a resurgent Terek Grozny, heated rivals CSKA Moscow, Lokomotiv Moscow and defending champions Zenit St Petersburg. To there good fortune, Spartak Moscow, sitting three points behind them have equally as difficult of a schedule if not more challenging. The feeding frenzy of the third through six spot of the table could equally provide them enough cushion as they cancel each other out. Their hopes will relay greatly on the one the best midfields in the sport of Krill and Dmitri Kombarov, Dmitri Kombarov and Igor Semshov to lead a attack.

	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
Rubin Kazan	20	12	6	2	30	15	42
Dynamo Moscow	20	10	6	4	27	20	36
Spartak Moscow	20	8	9	3	33	27	33
Amkar Perm’	20	9	5	6	21	15	32
CSKA Moscow	20	8	8	4	27	15	32
Samara Kryliya Sovetov	20	7	9	4	28	17	30
Zenit St Petersburg	19	7	7	5	32	24	28
Spartak Nalchik	20	7	4	9	19	22	25
Terek Grozny	20	7	4	9	18	27	25
Lokomotiv Moscow	19	6	7	6	23	21	25

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