Commonwealth Cup: Comeback caps Kyiv win

FC Dynamo Kyiv lifted the Commonwealth Cup with a 4-3 victory over FC Spartak Moscow. The Ukrainian champions needed all their resilience to overturn the 2-1 advantage held by the Russian side at half-time.

Lucky for Kyiv
Bulgarian Georgi Peev equalised moments after the restart, then Nigerian striker Lucky Idahor scored one goal and created another for Valentin Belkevitch. Young striker Dmitry Sychev answered the Spartak cavalry call with four minutes to go, but there would be no denying Dynamo.

Spartak's bright start
Spartak had gone ahead through Eduard Tsykhmeistrukn on four minutes only for Aleksandr Khatskevich to level soon after. Yet the Russian champions restored the lead, and their position as favourites, through Aleksandr Danishevskiy on the stroke of half-time.

Fourth cup win
That, though, was reckoning without Dynamo's powers of recovery, which earned them a fourth Commonwealth Cup from FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter.