VEB Arena: CSKA Moskva vs Spartak Moskva Premier League preview

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sun 16.October
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: VEB Arena (30457 seats)

Premier League: Two sides who have played splendidly thus far. Let's get ready for CSKA Moskva - Spartak Moskva with this full guide!

Insights:
  • CSKA Moskva have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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CSKA Moskva form and stats

CSKA Moskva have been outstanding at home so far in the Premier League with 5 wins, 1 draw and only 0 losses.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for CSKA Moskva, who played 1-1 against Dinamo Moskva. That match was also played at this venue (VEB Arena). The striker Kuchaev bettered all the other players in that match and got a match rating of 8.63 out of 10. Kuchaev served one assist and hit seven key passes.

A strong away win before that one, visiting Khimki and winning 2-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does CSKA Moskva handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Moskva, as the Russian Cup home game vs Torpedo Moskva is only three days away.

CSKA Moskva are not conceding a lot of goals here at VEB Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 6 matches.

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Spartak Moskva form and stats

4-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Spartak Moskva in their Premier League matches away.

Promes (2), Sobolev (2) and Litvinov scored in Spartak Moskva's previous match, the home game against Krylya Sovetov that ended 5-2. As you can tell from the result, the match against Krylya Sovetov was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 7 goals, will the fun continue today? Promes has scored at least one goal for this team three games in a row. The smartness! Promes got a match rating of 9.41 in that game, top player of the team. Promes scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 29 successful passes (of 36 total).

Prior to that result Spartak won their away game at FK Nizjni Novgorod. The scoreline was 2-1.

Spartak Moskva have another game away in just three nights, a Russian Cup match versus Fakel. A strenuous fixture list for the guests!

With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Spartak are regular goalscorers on their travels. Spartak Moskva have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Stats for the previous ten meetings between these two contenders are: five wins for CSKA Moskva, zero draws and five wins for Spartak Moskva. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: six games. The games between these clubs sometimes lean towards being brutal, having seen 6 red cards from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

Spartak MoskvaQ. Promes
Q. Promes
11 goals
MoskvaF. Chalov
F. Chalov
7 goals
Spartak MoskvaA. Sobolev
A. Sobolev
6 goals

CSKA Moskva missing players

Spartak Moskva missing players

CSKA Moskva Spartak Moskva
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
12 6 1 Played P 2 7 12
7 5 1 Won W 1 4 8
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 1
2 0 0 Lost L 1 2 3
24 18 4 Scored S 6 15 29
11 5 1 Conceded C 5 9 14
92% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 86% 83%
58% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 57% 67%
33% 50% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 43% 42%
25% 50% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 43% 42%
58% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 67%
33% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 25%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 14% 8%
 
4.7 6 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 5.7 5.2
4.1 2.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 4 3.7 3.7
1.8 1.5 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.9 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
16.1 18 14 Shots (avg) S ( 18.5 19.3 17.8
5 6.8 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 7.5 7 6.7
40% 44% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 31% 36%
 
10.4 8.3 6 Shots against (avg) S A 12 11.7 11.2
3.3 2.5 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.7 4
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of CSKA Moskva's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • CSKA Moskva have not yet lost a game at home.
  • CSKA Moskva have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • CSKA Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • CSKA Moskva have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • CSKA Moskva have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • CSKA Moskva have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • CSKA Moskva haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Spartak Moskva have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points (13) away in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva have the most scored goals (15) away in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zenit 12 9 3 0 33 5 6 6 0 0 23 2 6 3 3 0 10 3 28 30
2 Spartak Moskva 12 8 1 3 29 14 5 4 0 1 14 5 7 4 1 2 15 9 15 25
3 Rostov 12 7 4 1 23 17 7 5 2 0 14 8 5 2 2 1 9 9 6 25
4 CSKA Moskva 12 7 3 2 24 11 6 5 1 0 18 5 6 2 2 2 6 6 13 24
5 Krasnodar 12 6 3 3 23 17 6 4 1 1 13 8 6 2 2 2 10 9 6 21
6 Sochi 12 6 2 4 22 20 6 5 1 0 15 5 6 1 1 4 7 15 2 20
7 Orenburg 12 6 0 6 20 28 6 5 0 1 15 7 6 1 0 5 5 21 -8 18
8 Dinamo Moskva 12 4 5 3 18 14 6 3 2 1 8 4 6 1 3 2 10 10 4 17
9 Akhmat Grozny 12 5 2 5 18 19 6 2 2 2 7 8 6 3 0 3 11 11 -1 17
10 FK Nizjni Novgorod 12 3 4 5 17 20 6 1 2 3 11 13 6 2 2 2 6 7 -3 13
11 Krylya Sovetov 12 2 5 5 12 19 5 0 3 2 2 5 7 2 2 3 10 14 -7 11
12 Fakel 12 1 7 4 16 23 6 1 4 1 9 10 6 0 3 3 7 13 -7 10
13 Ural 12 3 1 8 11 22 7 2 0 5 6 13 5 1 1 3 5 9 -11 10
14 Lokomotiv Moskva 12 2 3 7 15 26 6 1 3 2 12 11 6 1 0 5 3 15 -11 9
15 Khimki 12 2 2 8 13 23 6 1 2 3 6 9 6 1 0 5 7 14 -10 8
16 Torpedo Moskva 12 1 3 8 7 23 6 1 1 4 4 11 6 0 2 4 3 12 -16 6

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The Premier League, or the Russian Football Championship, is the top level football league in Russia. It has 16 teams who play each other home and away for a total of 30 matches each. After this the top team in the league table is the champion, the bottom two relegated directly while two teams play a relegation playoff.