CSKA Moscow women played Krylya Sovetov women in the Higher League regular season on 1 August 2026, and came away with a 4-1 win. The result keeps the hosts in first place, five points clear of the chasing pack, while the visitors remain fifth after sixteen games.
Natalya Mashina opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute, and the momentum carried through. Milena Nikolic doubled the advantage in the twenty-first minute, and the visitors could not find their footing. By then CSKA had tightened things up, and Krylya's back line was being worked the channels.
Marine Achoyan made it three in the forty-third minute, and the visitors finally responded with a goal of their own before the interval. The hosts added a fourth in the eighty-seventh through Nikolic, who had already marked her name twice on the scoresheet.
There was a late goal in stoppage time, though no scorer was recorded for the ninety-third minute strike. Substitutions came thick and fast: Darya Yakovleva, Asya Turieva, Mina Cavic, Sofia Shishkina, Tatiana Petrova and Tijana Matic all entered the field. Margarita Manuilova and K. Konovaeva each picked up a yellow card in the seventy-seventh and seventy-eighth minutes.
CSKA have now played eighteen matches, winning fifteen, drawing once and losing twice, with forty-six points on the board. Krylya Sovetov sit fifth after sixteen games, with eight wins, three draws and five losses, accumulating twenty-seven points. The hosts' recent form has been steady — two wins and a draw in their last three outings — while the visitors have shown more inconsistency, including a heavy defeat to Spartak Moscow in May.
And here's the thing about a night like this: three goals in the first half set the tone, and everything after that was just running out the clock. Krylya lost their man at crucial moments and could not spring a surprise. CSKA kept their side in it, and the five-point gap at the top feels real now, not just a number on a table.