Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Spartak Moskva & Zenit face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Russian Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
Both squads have had plentiful rest since their previous work day in an official game. Let's have faith in that this will be an animated fixture!
Spartak Moskva form and stats
3 victories, 0 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Spartak Moskva have to build on here at Otkrytiye Arena in the Premier League.
Spartak Moskva's last game was hosting Lokomotiv Moskva and winning 1-0. The home side have an in-form goalscorer in Sobolev, having bagged a goal in four consecutive games. The striker Promes was declared "man of the match" for Spartak with a rating of 8.34/10. Promes hit six key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.
Ahead of that game, a home victory against Fakel in the Russian Cup.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Spartak Moskva as they are travelling to their away game against Olimpiyets in the Premier League. That match is three days after this one.
The Spartak Moskva manager Perez has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games in the league. From these home matches, Spartak have conceded only 3 goals.
Zenit form and stats
Zenit's mission in Russian Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals.Playing away, Zenit have won 3 games, drawn 2 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premier League this season.
The Zenit goalkeeper Ivan Quaresma da Silva is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 249 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Zenit play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Dinamo Moskva. Santos was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.3. The defender Santos hit three key passes and won 7 of 10 duels.
A loss, in the Russian Cup away at Krylya Sovetov, before that.
After this away game Zenit return home for a Premier League game against Rostov. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Zenit has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 5 games. Zenit's manager Semak has created a great defensive setup working very nicely in away games with only 2 conceded goals. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Zenit have pulled off a sequence of 11 consecutive games without defeat (7-4-0) when facing Spartak Moskva.Top Goalscorers
  Q. Promes 8 goals |   M. Silva de Oliveira 6 goals |  M. Valle da Silva 5 goals |
Spartak Moskva missing players
Zenit missing players
| Spartak Moskva | Zenit | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Won | W | 6 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | ||
| 50 | 30 | Scored | S | 21 | 57 | ||
| 29 | 11 | Conceded | C | 10 | 15 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 68% | 71% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 21% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 32% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 60% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 44% | ||
| 32% | 43% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 48% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 12% | ||
| 5 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.4 | 6.7 | ||
| 4.3 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.1 | 2.9 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 16.5 | 15.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.9 | 16.7 | ||
| 6.6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 6.2 | ||
| 30% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 39% | ||
| 11.7 | 11.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.7 | 8.6 | ||
| 3.4 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 2.8 | ||
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 26 | 26 |
| 2 | Rostov | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | CSKA Moskva | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 20 |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | Spartak Moskva | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 19 |
| 6 | Sochi | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Dinamo Moskva | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 16 |
| 8 | Akhmat Grozny | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 9 | Olimpiyets | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 12 |
| 10 | Orenburg | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 21 | -12 | 12 |
| 11 | Krylya Sovetov | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | -4 | 10 |
| 12 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -5 | 9 |
| 13 | Fakel | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -7 | 8 |
| 14 | Khimki | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
| 15 | Ural | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -14 | 4 |
| 16 | Torpedo Moskva | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -16 | 4 |
