On Saturday, Dynamo in the 18th round of the RPL at the Lukoil Arena drew with Spartak in the country's oldest derby (1:1). By tradition, we have collected for you the most interesting statistics provided by the RuStat platform.
Interesting facts
Dynamo's unbeaten streak against Spartak in the Russian Premier League has reached four matches.
Ivan Sergeev scored his tenth goal for the White-Blues in his 26th match.
Dynamo entered the winter break in tenth place. Our team last held this position after 18 rounds in the 2018/19 season, finishing 12th.
Dmitry Skopintsev played his 194th match for Dynamo, moving into the top 40 players in this category, catching up with Yuri Kovtun and Valery Korolenkov.
The derby coincided with Dynamo's 1,000th match in the Russian top division. Our team became the fourth to reach this milestone (after Spartak, CSKA, and Lokomotiv).
Team statistics
In a generally equal game, Dynamo were much more dangerous at other people's gates: they struck more shots, hit the target twice as often and surpassed Spartak in terms of "Expected goals" three times.
Key indicators: Spartak –Dynamo
Scoring chances: 4 – 7
Expected goals (xG): 1.05 – 3.1
Shots (on target): 7 (2) – 11 (4)
Ball possession: 56% – 44%
Duels: 57% – 43%
Corners: 5 – 2
Dribbles: 17 – 13
Tackles: 28 – 12
Interceptions: 42 – 62
Rebounds: 59 – 58
Individual statistics
Statistically, the best player of the match was Dmitry Skopintsev, who received the highest RuStat index (232). He had 69 successful technical and tactical actions, 100% successful tackles, 9 interceptions, and 8 rebounds.
Nicolas Ngamaleu led the opponent in fouls, with Spartak players fouling him a whopping 9 times. Furthermore, Mumi actively engaged in duels and won 16 of them, 14 of which were attacking (the best performance of the match). He also completed 8 successful dribbles, a team season record.
Konstantin Tyukavin had 3 shots on goal and created 2 scoring chances.
Bitello led the match in Ball Possession (7), and also completed 42 accurate passes, 5 of which were in the penalty area.
Roberto Fernandez had the most rebounds (10).
Andrey Lunev blocked two shots, completed 87% of his touchdowns, and completed 84% of his passes.
