Premier League preview with statistics: Torpedo Moskva welcomes Spartak Moskva to Stadion Luzhniki

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Sat 15.April
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadion Luzhniki (2500 seats)

Torpedo Moskva have struggled for points this season. Could they get a victory when Spartak Moskva come to visit Stadion Luzhniki?

Insights:
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals (15) in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (13) in Premier League

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

This promises to be an action-packed match with lots of action and bustle as both participants are well revitalized since they last ran out on the pitch. Get ready!

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Torpedo Moskva form and stats

Torpedo Moskva's struggle is real here at Stadion Luzhniki with only 7 points collected from 11 Premier League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-8.

Torpedo's last game was hosting Fakel (placed 14th) and winning 2-0. Kozhemyakin, defender, was given a rating of 8.43/10 in that game, top of the team. Kozhemyakin won 6 of 8 duels.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Rostov (1-2).

It should be considered that a glance at the 11 latest league fixtures reveals that 9 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Torpedo Moskva here at Stadion Luzhniki in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (6 from 11 games). With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Torpedo Moskva defense is not exactly impregnable. 17 goals conceded from 11 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Spartak Moskva form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 5 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats.

Spartak played 3-3 against Dinamo Moskva in their previous match. As you can tell from the result, the match against Dinamo Moskva was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today? Sobolev, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.44. Sobolev scored two goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

A defeat, in the Russian Cup away at Ural, earlier.

The schedule is very tough for Spartak Moskva now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Russian Cup game at Akron is waiting in only four days.

The travelling fans enjoy Spartak Moskva's attacking play in away games, having scored 20 goals in 11 league matches away. Spartak Moskva have conceded 15 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Spartak Moskva have avoided defeat in the last 7 fixtures (6-1-0) facing Torpedo.

Spartak Moskva - Torpedo Moskva 1-0 was the output when these two participants previously did battle, some time ago this season.

Top Goalscorers

Spartak MoskvaQ. Promes
Q. Promes
16 goals
Spartak MoskvaA. Sobolev
A. Sobolev
9 goals
Spartak MoskvaR. Litvinov
R. Litvinov
4 goals

Torpedo Moskva missing players

Spartak Moskva missing players

Torpedo Moskva Spartak Moskva
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 11 22
3 2 1 Won W 3 5 12
4 1 0 Drew D 0 3 6
15 8 2 Lost L 0 3 4
15 6 1 Scored S 8 20 48
35 17 3 Conceded C 2 15 27
95% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
64% 55% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 91% 82%
36% 27% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 55% 64%
27% 27% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 36% 45%
5% 9% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 27% 36%
32% 27% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 73% 64%
18% 27% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 9% 27%
55% 55% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 14%
 
3.6 3.9 2.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.8 5
5.7 5.5 6.3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.4 4.2
2.4 3.1 6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 3.2 2.5
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
8.6 8.8 7.7 Shots (avg) S ( 22.3 16.5 17.1
2.9 3.5 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 9 5.7 6.5
24% 15% 10% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 32% 34%
 
18.4 16.8 22.3 Shots against (avg) S A 10 12.2 10.4
7 6.2 5.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 4.3 3.9
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Spartak Moskva have scored more than double the goals of Torpedo Moskva.
  • Spartak Moskva have the most points from losing position (13) in Premier League
  • Spartak Moskva haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Torpedo Moskva have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest points (7) at home in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals (15) in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals (6) at home in Premier League
  • Torpedo Moskva have the fewest scored goals in the second half (7) in Premier League

  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 21 16 3 2 55 10 11 10 0 1 39 6 10 6 3 1 16 4 45 51
2 Rostov 21 13 5 3 38 28 12 8 2 2 22 16 9 5 3 1 16 12 10 44
3 Spartak Moskva 22 12 6 4 48 27 11 7 3 1 28 12 11 5 3 3 20 15 21 42
4 CSKA Moskva 21 11 5 5 37 20 10 7 2 1 25 8 11 4 3 4 12 12 17 38
5 Dinamo Moskva 22 10 6 6 39 29 11 7 2 2 20 10 11 3 4 4 19 19 10 36
6 Akhmat Grozny 22 11 3 8 33 29 11 5 2 4 14 12 11 6 1 4 19 17 4 36
7 Krasnodar 21 9 5 7 44 35 10 5 2 3 20 15 11 4 3 4 24 20 9 32
8 Orenburg 21 10 2 9 41 41 10 8 1 1 28 11 11 2 1 8 13 30 0 32
9 Sochi 21 9 4 8 31 39 10 6 3 1 20 12 11 3 1 7 11 27 -8 31
10 Lokomotiv Moskva 21 7 4 10 31 37 10 2 3 5 17 19 11 5 1 5 14 18 -6 25
11 Ural 22 7 4 11 24 35 11 4 1 6 12 17 11 3 3 5 12 18 -11 25
12 Krylya Sovetov 21 5 6 10 21 32 10 2 4 4 8 11 11 3 2 6 13 21 -11 21
13 Olimpiyets 21 5 4 12 23 41 11 2 2 7 14 27 10 3 2 5 9 14 -18 19
14 Fakel 22 2 11 9 27 41 11 2 7 2 17 17 11 0 4 7 10 24 -14 17
15 Torpedo Moskva 22 3 4 15 15 35 11 2 1 8 6 17 11 1 3 7 9 18 -20 13
16 Khimki 21 3 4 14 19 47 11 2 3 6 8 18 10 1 1 8 11 29 -28 13

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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.