The head coach of White and Blues Oleh Blokhin was absent due to his illness and his assistant Olexiy Mykhaylycheko replaced him on the coaching bench.
The visitors opened the score in the 34-th minute after their Brazilian wizard Taison received a perfect pass from his compatriot Xavier and meeting Shovkovskiy face to face calmly placed the ball into Dynamo’s net from 14 meters.
In the second half Metallist skipper Xavier doubled the advantage of his club from the penalty spot in the 52 minute with Andriy Yarmolenko reduced it only to one goal seven minutes later.
The game was closed by Argentinean forward Cristaldo eleven minutes from time when he managed to break Dynamo’s defense for the third time.
Dynamo squad:
Shovkovskiy (c), Mikhalik, Khacheridi, Taiwo, Gusev, Vukojevic, Veloso (Milevskiy, 75), Yarmolenko, Raffael (Kranjcar, 46),Mehmedi (Ruben, 82), Brown Ideye.
