Spartak Moscow 5:1 Orenburg: Match Result

Match report

Spartak Moscow and Orenburg met in the first group stage match of the Russian Cup on Tuesday, and the hosts ran out 5-1 winners at home. To be fair, the result felt inevitable once you saw how the game unfolded, especially after Orenburg's heavy 3-0 defeat to Zenit just three days earlier. By then, the question was whether they could at least make Spartak work for it. They couldn't. And here's the thing — Spartak took control before the twenty-minute mark. Solari found a way through in the 26th minute, then Ugalde converted a penalty in the 33rd. The visitors were already chasing shadows by halftime, and Savelyev came off for Orenburg on the stroke of half-time, a sign of things to come. Orenburg tried to respond after the break. Vasiljev, Bosch, and Wooh came on in quick succession, but the yardsticks were set too early. Yellow cards for Kul and Puebla in the 75th and 77th minutes told you where the frustration was heading. Then Umyarov pulled one back in the 78th, and for a moment you thought there might be a scrap. The statistics don't lie about the imbalance. Spartak held 66 per cent possession and registered eight shots on target to Orenburg's three. More telling was the accuracy — Spartak hit 36 per cent of their attempts, compared to 38 for the visitors, but it didn't matter. Eight shots on target against three means you're the ones running the show. Polekh sealed it in the 84th minute, and the final tally was five goals to one. Spartak have now extended their unbeaten run to eight matches across all competitions, while Orenburg are running out of games to salvage their Cup hopes. The table goes out of the window in these games, but you could still see where this one was going from the first corner.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 66 – 34

Shots on target 8 – 3

Shots off target 9 – 2

Corners 13 – 4

⚽ 26' P. Solari — Goal 🟨 29' K. Dudarin — Yellow card ⚽ 33' M. Ugalde — Penalty ⇄ 43' M. Savelyev — Substitution ⇄ 46' P. Solari — Substitution ⚽ 52' M. Ugalde — Goal ⇄ 61' D. Vasiljev — Substitution ⇄ 63' C. Martins — Substitution ⇄ 64' B. Bosch — Substitution ⇄ 73' C. Wooh — Substitution 🟨 75' R. Kul — Yellow card 🟨 77' D. Puebla — Yellow card ⚽ 78' N. Umyarov — Goal ⇄ 79' A. Djiku — Substitution ⚽ 81' R. Golybin — Goal ⚽ 84' P. Polekh — Goal

Match events

26' 1:0 Spartak Moscow Goal P. Solari
29' 1:0 Orenburg Yellow card K. Dudarin
33' 2:0 Spartak Moscow Penalty M. Ugalde
43' 2:0 Orenburg Substitution M. Savelyev off: Alexandre Jesus
46' 2:0 Spartak Moscow Substitution P. Solari off: N. Massalyga
52' 3:0 Spartak Moscow Goal M. Ugalde assist: I. Dmitriev
61' 3:0 Orenburg Substitution D. Vasiljev off: R. Kul
63' 3:0 Spartak Moscow Substitution C. Martins off: I. Sorokin
64' 3:0 Orenburg Substitution B. Bosch off: D. Puebla
73' 3:0 Spartak Moscow Substitution C. Wooh off: P. Polekh
75' 3:0 Orenburg Yellow card R. Kul
77' 3:0 Orenburg Yellow card D. Puebla
78' 4:0 Spartak Moscow Goal N. Umyarov assist: I. Dmitriev
79' 4:0 Spartak Moscow Substitution A. Djiku off: D. Khlusevich
81' 4:1 Orenburg Goal R. Golybin
84' 5:1 Spartak Moscow Goal P. Polekh

Statistics

66 Possession, % 34

8 Shots on target 3

9 Shots off target 2

13 Corners 4

18 Free kicks 7

1 Offsides 1

0 Yellow cards 3

0 Red cards 0

10 Goal kicks 16

27 Throw-ins 16

All statistics

5 Blocked shots 3

0.36 Shot accuracy 0.38

Line-ups

Spartak Moscow

Starting XI
#	Player	number
1	Ilya Pomazun	1
3	Christopher Maurice Wooh	3
4	Alexander Kwabena Baidoo Djiku	4
33	Victor Parada	33
68	Ruslan Litvinov	68
7	Pablo Solari	7
17	Vladislav Saus	17
25	Danil Prutsev	25
27	Igor Dmitriev	27
35	Christopher Martins	35
9	Manfred Alonso Ugalde Arce	9

Substitutes
#	Player	number
56	Alexander Dovbnya	56
98	Aleksandr Maksimenko	98
6	Srđan Babić	6
82	Daniil Khlusevich	82
97	Daniil Denisov	97
5	Esequiel Omar Barco	5
10	Marquinhos	10
18	Nail Umyarov	18
47	Roman Zobnin	47
24	Nikita Massalyga	24
62	Pavel Polekh	62

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Orenburg

Starting XI
#	Player	number
88	Maksim Rudakov	88
2	Stanislav Poroykov	2
26	Emil Ivanov Tsenov	26
38	Artem Kasimov	38
11	Egor Nazarenko	11
18	Dmitri Vasiljev	18
27	R. Golyabin	27
65	Ivan Ivashchenko	65
9	Maksim Saveljev	9
21	Benjamin Bosc	21
96	K. Dudarin	96

Substitutes
#	Player	number
95	Andrei Khodanovich	95
3	Danila Vedernikov	3
5	Aleksey Tataev	5
6	Jhon Alexander Palacios Santos	6
59	Maksym Syshchenko	59
8	D. Puebla	8
20	Dmitri Rybchinskiy	20
63	Omar Minatulayev	63
78	Ruslan Kul	78
80	Mikhail Pychchev	80
19	Alexandre de Jesus Jeruzalem Júnior	19
77	Andrey Kasadzhirov	77