📏 Form Guide

Spartak Moscow

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Spartak Moscow will be looking for an improved result here after a 0-2 Premier League defeat last time out to Fakel Voronezh.

In that match, Spartak Moscow managed 68% possession and 18 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Spartak Moscow was Danil Prutsev (66' Own goal). At the other end, Fakel Voronezh got 6 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Yevgeni Markov (37') scored for Fakel Voronezh.

Guillermo Abascal's Spartak Moscow have scored 8 times in their prior six outings. At the other end, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those games stands at 5.

Ural

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Zenit St Petersburg in Premier League action, Ural will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Ural had 34% possession and 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Ural was Eric Bicfalvi (92'). For their opponents, Zenit got 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Douglas Santos (38'), Andrei Mostovoy (57'), Mateo Cassierra (66') and Ivan Sergeev (81') scored for Zenit St Petersburg.

Looking at their form, and Ural have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals in total. In defence, Ural could really do with shoring things up.

Taking a look at their past results, Ural:

• have not registered a win against Spartak Moscow when having played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 8 league matches. Who knows how long it might last, too.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head clashes dating back to 18/03/2021 tells us that Spartak Moscow have won 4 of these games & Ural 1, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 in total which averages out at 3.67 goals per match.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premier League match day 4 on 11/08/2023 when it ended Ural 3-2 Spartak Moscow.

That day, Ural managed 38% possession and 22 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. The scorers were Danijel Miškić (45'), Andrei Egorychev (90') and Eric Bicfalvi (94').

Spartak Moscow had 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. Théo Bongonda (53') and Aleksandr Sobolev (81') scored.

The match was refereed by Kirill Levnikov.

🗞️ Team News: Spartak Moscow

The Spartak Moscow manager Guillermo Abascal has no fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free group available to choose from.

We think that Narodnaya komanda will probably employ a 4-4-2 system in the match, beginning the first half with Aleksandr Maksimenko, Daniil Denisov, Nikita Chernov, Srdjan Babic, Daniil Khlusevich, Mikhail Ignatov, Danil Prutsev, C. Martins Pereira, Anton Zinkovskiy, Aleksandr Sobolev and Manfred Ugalde.

📋 Team News: Ural

Thanks to a mainly full-strength squad, there’s only a single fitness problem for the Ural gaffer Viktor Goncharenko to contend with. Rai Vloet (Achilles tendon problems) won’t be in action.

We’re of the thinking that Bumblebees seem most likely to make use of a 3-5-2 formation using Ilya Pomazun, Ítalo, Silvije Begic, Egor Filipenko, Denys Kulakov, Fanil Sungatulin, Valeriy Bocherov, Danijel Miskic, Vladislav Malkevich, Eric Cosmin Bicfalvi and Aleksey Ionov.

💭 Prediction

In this match, Spartak Moscow can and should stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.

In contrast, Ural will be up against it to get shooting opportunities although we do see them managing to get on the scoresheet, too.

Our selection here is for a controlled 3-1 winning score for Spartak Moscow by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 15:02 30/03/2024