National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Spartak Moskva or FK Nizjni Novgorod that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Spartak Moskva nor FK Nizjni Novgorod as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Spartak Moskva form and stats
Last season, Spartak's Russian Cup journey ended in the regions path - semi-finals - 2nd round.Perfect Premier League season at home so far for Spartak Moskva 2 wins from 2 appearances.
Happy days for Spartak Moskva in their previous game, a fixture away at Rubin Kazan' that ended with a 4-1 victory. The home team have an in-form goalscorer in Bongonda, having bagged a goal in three matches in a row. Dzhikiya was "man of the match" with a rating of 8.03 out of 10. The defender Dzhikiya won 6 of 6 duels.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Baltika.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Spartak Moskva as they are travelling to their away game against Ural in the Premier League. That match is three days after this one.
Spartak Moskva has scored {5 goals} so far and conceded {3 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.
FK Nizjni Novgorod form and stats
They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the regions path - quarter-finals - 2nd round.Still no away game victory in the Premier League for FK Nizjni Novgorod with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
FK Nizjni Novgorod have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 277 minutes ago. Gotsuk was the goal scorer.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Novgorod, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Krasnodar. Mikhailov got a match rating of 7.15 in that game, top player of the team. Mikhailov hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 0-0 draw at Ural's stadium before that.It's early days yet, but FK Nizjni Novgorod has scored 0 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
As for the last four games between these two teams, there's one Spartak Moskva victory, two draws and one FK Nizjni Novgorod win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  Q. Promes 2 goals |  D. Khlusevich 2 goals |  T. Bongonda Mbul'Ofeko Batombo 2 goals |
Spartak Moskva missing players
FK Nizjni Novgorod missing players
| Spartak Moskva | FK Nizjni Novgorod | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 9 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Lost | L | 10 | 15 | ||
| 42 | 25 | Scored | S | 12 | 23 | ||
| 36 | 18 | Conceded | C | 22 | 36 | ||
| 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 86% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 68% | ||
| 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | ||
| 36% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 29% | 24% | ||
| 28% | 42% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 7% | 4% | ||
| 76% | 83% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 28% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 32% | ||
| 20% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 52% | ||
| 6.3 | 7.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.2 | 3.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.2 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| 9 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 15.6 | 18.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.1 | 8.6 | ||
| 5.7 | 6.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.2 | ||
| 30% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 29% | ||
| 9.4 | 8.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 9.4 | ||
| 4.3 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 3.4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Spartak Moskva | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Dinamo Moskva | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Spartak Moskva | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | Krasnodar | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 3 | Krylya Sovetov | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 4 | Ural | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | CSKA Moskva | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Zenit | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Rostov | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -3 | 4 |
| 9 | Sochi | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Rubin Kazan' | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -3 | 2 |
| 11 | Dinamo Moskva | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 12 | Orenburg | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 13 | FK Nizjni Novgorod | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 1 |
| 14 | Akhmat Grozny | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 15 | Baltika | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Fakel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
