In the final of the Russian Women’s Football Cup, St. Petersburg Zenit hosted CSKA Moscow. The meeting ended with the guests winning with a score of 4:1.
The scoring opened in the last minute of the first half. Cameroonian CSKA forward Gabrielle Ongene scored the goal. At the beginning of the second half, Zenit’s Polish midfielder Gabriela Grzywińska struck Elizaveta Shcherbakova’s goal from long range. It took ten minutes for CSKA players to regain the lead. Nadezhda Smirnova converted the penalty. In the middle of the second half, Francis Ordega made the score 3:1, and with two minutes left in normal time, Smirnova scored a double goal and determined the final score.
Last season, the cup went to CSKA players. They beat Zenit in the final with a score of 2:1.
This cup was the third for CSKA in the club’s history. The players of the Moscow team won their first Russian Cup by beating Chertanovo in 2017.
In the national championship, CSKA is in first place, three points ahead of Zenit.
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