Spartak Moskva get ready to welcome Ural for something different than the ordinary league football: The Russian Cup Premier League Path - Semi-finals leg 1 of 2.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Ural, who are travelling more than 1700 kilometers to play this game.
It's no vacation for neither Spartak Moskva nor Ural 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
Spartak Moskva are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Otkrytiye Arena. 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games.
A nice win for Spartak Moskva last time playing, versus Fakel. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-2 with Promes (2) and Pereira scoring for the victors. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Perez when Pereira scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 58th minute. Promes, a natural forward, was the declared top performer for the side in that fixture, collecting a rating of 9.05 (out of 10). Promes scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes and had 41 successful passes (of 47 total).
Before that, Spartak drew at home versus Ural.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Spartak Moskva as they are travelling to their away game against Orenburg in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.
Spartak are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Otkrytiye Arena in their league games, having scored an impressive 25 goals in 9 matches.
Ural form and stats
They also participated in Russian Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.Playing away, Ural have won 3 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Premier League this season.
Ural play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Torpedo Moskva. Which player has scored three matches in a row for the away side? The answer is Vloet and that is quite the accomplishment! Pomazun was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.02. The agile goalkeeper Pomazun topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that match was the Premier League away draw versus Spartak Moskva that ended 2-2.After this away game Ural return home for a Premier League game against Dinamo Moskva. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Ural have scored 12 goals in 9 league games away. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Ural have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Spartak Moskva have put together a streak of 7 consecutive matches without losing (4-3-0) when playing Ural.Top Goalscorers
  Q. Promes 16 goals |  A. Sobolev 7 goals |  A. Kashtanov 5 goals |
Spartak Moskva missing players
Ural missing players
| Spartak Moskva | Ural | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 5 | 11 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | ||
| 52 | 34 | Scored | S | 20 | 37 | ||
| 23 | 11 | Conceded | C | 16 | 29 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 77% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 80% | ||
| 64% | 69% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 73% | 56% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 31% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 18% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 91% | 72% | ||
| 48% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 20% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 12% | ||
| 4.1 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.1 | 1.9 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13.6 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.2 | 10.5 | ||
| 5.8 | 6.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.5 | ||
| 34% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 50% | ||
| 9.5 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.9 | 8.1 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.5 | ||
| 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 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 53 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 37 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 44 | 48 |
| 2 | Spartak Moskva | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 45 | 22 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 23 | 40 |
| 3 | Rostov | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 27 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 38 |
| 4 | CSKA Moskva | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 32 |
| 5 | Dinamo Moskva | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 35 | 24 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 11 | 32 |
| 6 | Krasnodar | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 29 |
| 7 | Akhmat Grozny | 19 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 30 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 29 |
| 8 | Orenburg | 19 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 38 | 40 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 29 | -2 | 28 |
| 9 | Sochi | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 24 | -7 | 28 |
| 10 | Ural | 19 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 14 | -6 | 25 |
| 11 | Krylya Sovetov | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 21 | -10 | 20 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 35 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 18 | -11 | 19 |
| 13 | Olimpiyets | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 34 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | -11 | 19 |
| 14 | Fakel | 19 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 24 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 22 | -13 | 14 |
| 15 | Khimki | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 29 | -21 | 13 |
| 16 | Torpedo Moskva | 19 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 9 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -24 | 7 |
