FC Dinamo Tbilisi hosted FC Saburtalo in Erovnuli Liga 4th round match. Before the match general director of our club Zaza Dolidze awarded vice-captain of our team Davit Kobouri. This was his 100th match in the club.
It’s worth mentioning in the beginning that the match was quite interesting. Seven goals were scored. Our team started the match actively and scored the first goal on 5th minute. Zoran Marusic scored his first goal with header. Serbian forward received the ball from corner. In about ten minutes, the guest team equalized the score. Shota Nonikashvili scored and the match continued in high speed. On 31st minute Anzor Mekvabishvili played technically on the right wing, deceived the rival and kicked, but goalkeeper repelled, although Zoran Marusic appeared to be the fastest and scored the double. In response Shota Nonikashvili scored the second goal, who equalized the score again during addition time of the first half.
In the second half Dinamo managed to go forward again. On 55th minute Giorgi Gabedava scored the penalty kick exactly. The teams made substitutions. Captain of our team, who was injured in the last match and sat on the bench, joined the game. Giorgi Papava scored the third goal on 69th minute from about 30 meters. In two minutes Iuri Tabatadze scored and recorded the final result of the match. Finally Dinamo won with the score 4:2. Our team will play the next match on March against FC Telavi.
Dinamo 4-3 Saburtalo
Goal: 1-0 Marusic 5’ 1-1 Sh. Nonikashvili 16’ 2-1 Marusic 31’ 2-2 Sh. Nonikashvili 45+2’ 3-2 Gabedava (pen) 55’ 4-2 Papava 69’ 4-3 Tabatadze 71’
Booked: Mekvabishvili 18’ Kobouri 49’ Mandrichenko 52’ Mongil 74’ Mali 85’ Papava 89’
Dinamo: Kvaskhvadze, Khvadagiani, Gbegnon, Mongil, Mekvabishvili (Kutsia 90+2), Gagnidze (Papava 64), Kobouri, Sporkslede (Iashvili 82), Radin, Gabedava (Kardava 64), Marusic (Akhvlediani 82)
Saburtalo: Megrelishvili, Mali, Latsabidze, Sh.Nonikashvili, (Aminu 86), Kakubava, Tsnobiladze (Jinjolava 35), Terra, Mandrichenko (L. Nonikashvili 63), Shulaia (Gocholeishvili 86), Guliashvili (I. Tabatadze 63), T. Tabatadze
Referee: G. Kikacheishvili