Preview of the Spartak — Dynamo Cup match

The text broadcast of the game will be available online in our match center.

Tickets can be purchased in advance online after mandatory registration on the Spartak website. To purchase a ticket to the guest sector, you must enter 1H68S in the "PROMO CODE" field, which is located at the top of the page, in the "TICKETS" section. After entering the promo code, the G223 sector will be available to you. You can buy up to 4 tickets per account.

You can watch the live video broadcast of this game on the Match TV channel. Beginning at 20:45 Moscow time.

Also, after the match, wait on our resources for the traditional edition of "Inside" with the highlights of the game and interviews of the actors.

For the first time in 27 years, the white-and-blues won their first four matches of the year, with Rolan Gusev playing a key role both then as a player and now as head coach.

"The guys are fighting, first and foremost, for Dynamo Football Club, which I tell them all the time. They're fighting for their reputation because they understand perfectly well what kind of club they're a part of. And I'm fighting alongside them. We're one unit and doing the same thing," Rolan Aleksandrovich noted.

The last team to defeat Rostov was an away win (1-0), thanks to a goal from Konstantin Tyukavin, who came within a goal of Dynamo's top scorer of the 21st century, Kevin Kuranyi. Kurban Rasulov made several brilliant saves and recorded his fifth clean sheet this season.

The only unfortunate moments of the game were Nicolas Ngamaleu's early injury and Rubens's dismissal for two highly questionable yellow cards.

After the 2-5 defeat at VTB Arena, Spartak had two controversial league matches. First, the red-and-whites confidently played the first half against Akron at home, taking a 3-1 lead. However, after the break, they allowed their opponent to equalize and could have conceded more. Ultimately, substitute Marquinhos brought the Muscovites a hard-fought 4-3 victory late on.

In the 21st round, Juan Carcedo's team traveled to Zenit. The Spanish coach fielded a lineup without their regular forwards, and Spartak looked better than the St. Petersburg team before the break, but their shooting accuracy was lacking. Ultimately, the match was decided by two penalties, converted by Alexander Sobolev and John Duran, and Spartak had virtually no scoring chances in the second half (0-2).

"We played well and compactly in the first half. We did everything we'd prepared for, but the goal against us changed everything. We had other chances later, but Zenit is a strong team and took advantage of the advantage they gained. Dominating an opponent like that for the full 90 minutes is hardly possible. Unfortunately, it all ended the way it did," Carcedo said at the press conference.

On Wednesday, the Red-Whites' main defensive midfielder, Nail Umyarov, will be out due to an accumulation of yellow cards.

The teams met 12 times in the Russian Cup draws: 7 wins on the side of the red and white, 5 for our team. At the same time, parity reigns in terms of goal difference – 19:19. The top scorers of the confrontation are Alexander Sobolev (4 goals), Nicolas Ngamaleu (3), Daniil Fomin, Konstantin Tyukavin, Christopher Martins, Manfred Ugalde (all 2).

This season, the teams also played twice in the RPL and both times in a draw – 2:2 at VTB Arena and 1:1 in Tushino.

Kirill Levnikov and his assistants Dmitry Ermakov and Andrey Vereteshkin will officiate the match. Sergey Tsyganok and Ivan Abrosimov will be responsible for the video Referee Assistance System (VAR).

This season, the 42-year-old referee from St. Petersburg worked on two blue and white derbies with CSKA (1:3) and Lokomotiv (3:5), as well as a recent match with Krylia Sovetov (4:0).