Spartak MoscowW23 Aug · Home Zenit Saint Petersburg · 2:0D30 Aug · Home Orenburg · 1:1W2 Sep · Home Rodina Moskva · 3:1L6 Sep · Away Dinamo Moscow · 1:2W13 Sep · Home FC Rostov · 3:0W16 Sep · Home Fakel Voronezh · 1:0
3:0
Finished
Kick-off was
BST
FC RostovL22 Aug · Away Akhmat Grozny · 1:4L29 Aug · Away Krasnodar · 0:1W1 Sep · Home CSKA Moscow · 2:0W5 Sep · Home Fakel Voronezh · 3:1L13 Sep · Away Spartak Moscow · 0:3L17 Sep · Home Dinamo Moscow · 0:3
In the Premier League game on 13 September 2026, Spartak Moscow beat FC Rostov 3:0. Match numbers: shots on target 9:7, corners 3:5.
Match report
Spartak Moscow defeated Rostov 3:0 in the Premier League's eighth round at Lukoil Arena on Saturday. The hosts took control early and never looked back, with Gedson Fernandes opening the scoring in the twenty-sixth minute before Pablo Solari converted a penalty after the VAR intervention at fifty-one minutes. Nikita Massalyga added a third in the eighty-ninth minute to complete the rout.
And here's the thing about this match — it wasn't the passing that made the difference, but the moments Spartak grabbed when it mattered. By then you could see the pattern forming, and to be fair, we had called for a home win earlier with fifty-eight percent confidence. The prediction held up, because Spartak had the game won inside thirty minutes.
Rostov struggled to find rhythm after the break. Konstantin Kuchaev collected a yellow card in the sixty-third minute and would not see the end of it, receiving a red in the ninetieth. Timur Suleymanov was substituted in the seventy-first after picking up his own booking, while Spartak brought on Srdjan Babic and Manfred Ugalde in the seventy-fifth to see out the result.
The statistics tell the story without embellishment. Spartak held sixty-two percent possession and registered nine shots on target from twenty-four attempts, while Rostov managed seven shots on target from twelve. Both goalkeepers made seven saves, but Spartak's shot accuracy of sixty percent meant they converted pressure into goals.
After the result Spartak sit second on nineteen points from nine games, with six wins and two defeats. Rostov remain twelfth on eight points from eight matches, and the gap between them is now eleven points. The hosts ended a run of mixed results and showed that when they take their chances, they are difficult to stop.
Prepared from match data
Key numbers
Possession, %62–38
Shots on target9–7
Shots off target5–2
Corners3–5
HT⚽26' Gedson Fernandes — Goal51' Nail Umyarov — var_penalty⚽55' Pablo Solari — Penalty⇄60' Ivan Komarov — Substitution🟨63' Konstantin Kuchaev — Yellow card⇄66' Marquinhos — Substitution🟨67' Timur Suleymanov — Yellow card⇄67' Roman Zobnin — Substitution⇄71' Timur Suleymanov — Substitution🟨72' Andrey Langovich — Yellow card⇄75' Srdjan Babic — Substitution⇄75' Manfred Ugalde — Substitution⇄86' Yaroslav Mikhailov — Substitution⇄86' Pablo Solari — Substitution⚽89' Nikita Massalyga — Goal🟥90' Konstantin Kuchaev — Red card🟨90+3' Victor Parada — Yellow card🟨90+3' Christopher Wooh — Yellow card🟨90+5' Danila Prokhin — Yellow card
W23 Aug · Home Zenit Saint Petersburg · 2:0D30 Aug · Home Orenburg · 1:1W2 Sep · Home Rodina Moskva · 3:1L6 Sep · Away Dinamo Moscow · 1:2W13 Sep · Home FC Rostov · 3:0W16 Sep · Home Fakel Voronezh · 1:0
