Moscow “Torpedo” and Dnepropetrovsk “Dnepr” met for the first time in the final in the history of the USSR Cups. At the other stages of the tournament, the teams converged 6 times: in four cases, the Torpedo players won, in two cases the Dnipro [1] .
The account in the final match was opened at the 34th minute by Dnipro midfielder Anton Shokh , who delivered an exact shot into the corner of the goal from outside the penalty area. As part of the “Torpedo”, the Savichev brothers stood out for their activity, so even before the break, Yuri scored the ball, which was canceled by the referee, who saw the offside in the episode.
In the second half, the Torpedo players had two real chances to equalize. First, the goalkeeper from the Dnipro goalkeeper Sergei Krakovsky fixed the ball from a header from Andrei Rudakov , and then the same Yuri Savichev did not take advantage of the moment at the opponent’s goal. The score until the end of the meeting did not change that way, and Dnipro for the first time in its history became the owner of the USSR Football Cup [2] .