On Sun Oct 2nd, in week 11, Spartak Moscow will travel to Nizhniy Novgorod to battle FC Nizhny Novgorod in a clash of these two closely matched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 16 degrees, which is great football weather. FC Nizhny Novgorod sits at 9th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-2 loss against Orenburg. Timur Ayupov struck first for Orenburg in the 31st minute, then Ektov added another in the 73rd minute on a feed from Lucas Vera At the end of 90 a dissapointed FC Nizhny Novgorod couldn’t manage to score, and Orenburg took the shutout win. FC Nizhny Novgorod is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches, while spartak Moscow sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Locomotiv Moscow. Aleksandr Sobolev struck first for Spartak Moscow in the 35th minute on a feed from Danila Prutsev, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Locomotiv Moscow couldn’t muster any offence and Spartak Moscow ran away with the shutout win. With 19 points in their last 10 matches Spartak Moscow should be reasonably happy with their performance.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season FC Nizhny Novgorod won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Aleksandr Sobolev has been the most effective weapon for Spartak Moscow lately. The Russian attacker has netted 3 goals in his last 5 matches. Kalinsky has been the most prolific scorer on FC Nizhny Novgorod in the last five matches with 3 goals.