Spartak Moscow (Home)
- Spartak Moscow have won 8, drawn 3 and lost only 1 of their 12 home league matches in Moscow this season.
- The home team have been in excellent form with 4 wins and 1 draw in their last 5 matches in all competitions.
- They currently occupy sixth spot in the Premier League 2025/2026 with 42 points from 24 games while Akhmat Grozny are in ninth with 31 points.
- Spartak are enjoying a purple patch and Juan Carlos Carcedo has them playing a systemised possession-based system since taking over at the helm in January 2026.
- They are very solid at home, conceding an average of only 1.08 goals per game at Otkritie Arena this season and Pablo Solari is the main goal threat in the team with seven in 23 Premier League appearances.
Akhmat Grozny (Away)
- Akhmat Grozny have won only 1, drawn 6 and lost 5 of their 12 away league matches in the 2025/2026 Premier League.
- Stanislav Cherchesov has reset the strategic direction of Akhmat in his pragmatic and disciplined way since returning to the club in August 2025.
- They sit deep, are very compact and can be dangerous from set pieces as well as counter-attacking.
- They are hard to beat away from home, having drawn all of their last 3 away matches.
- Akhmat also score and concede plenty of goals, averaging 1.08 goals per away match and conceding 1.58.
Key Players
- Pablo Solari - main goal threat with seven in 23 Premier League appearances.
- Egas Cacintura - top scorer on 8 goals in 22 league games.
- Maxim Samorodov - has 3 assists in their last 5 matches.
- Georgi Melkadze - scored 2 goals in their last 5 matches.
Head-to-Head
Akhmat have won none of the last 3 head-to-heads , drawing 2 , with the most recent meeting a 2-1 Spartak away win five months ago.
Betting Insights
- Both teams to score odds are 1.85 at time of writing.
- There is still value in the odds-on favorite Spartak Moscow at 1.58 for a home victory.
- The pick of the market is over 2.5 goals at 1.86.
Prediction
- We don’t think the visitors will have enough to win this game, so there is still value in the odds-on favorite Spartak Moscow at 1.58 for a home victory.
- But we also believe that Akhmat’s ability to contain games and hit on the counter will produce a game where both sides get on the scoresheet, so we are taking over 2.5 goals at 1.86.
