MOSKVA. Spartak Moskva defeated Napoli to win 2-1. A. Sobolev was the star player for his team after scoring 2 goals. It was Spartak Moskva to strike first with an early goal of A. Sobolev at the 3′. Then A. Sobolev scored again for Spartak Moskva in the 28′ minute with a goal scoring a double. Eventually, E. Elmas reduced the distance for Napoli with a goal. Eventually, that was it, and the result remained 2-1.​ Napoli was decisively superior in terms of ball possession (70%).​

The match was played at the Otkrytiye Arena stadium in Moskva on Wednesday and it started at 6:30 pm local time. The referee was Clément Turpin who had the assistance of Nicolas Danos and Cyril Gringore. The 4th official was Benoît Millot. The weather was snow. The temperature was freezing at -1 degrees Celsius or 30.13 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 96%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Napoli was in firm control of the ball 70% while Spartak Moskva was struggling with a 30% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Napoli was putting more pressure with 69 dangerous attacks and 21 shots of which 7 were on target. Anyway, Spartak Moskva was able to find the solution to win this match.​

Spartak Moskva shot 11 times, 3 on target, 8 off target. On the other side, Napoli shot 21 times, 7 on target, 14 off target.

Cards

Spartak Moskva received 3 yellow cards (R. Litvinov, Q. Promes and A. Sobolev). On the opposite side, Napoli received 2 yellow cards (K. Koulibaly and L. Spalletti).

Standings

After this contest, Spartak Moskva will have 7 points like Napoli to hold in the 1st place. Regarding the opposition, Napoli will stay with 7 points like Spartak Moskva to remain in the 2nd place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Europa League, Spartak Moskva will play away against Legia Warszawa on the 9th of December with a 2-0 head to head stats in favor of Legia Warszawa (1 draw).

Napoli will host Leicester City on the 9th of December with a 0-0 head to head.

Spartak Moskva – Formation

Spartak Moskva started with a 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

The manager Rui Carlos Pinho da Vitória decided to play with the following team: Aleksandr Selikhov (8.1), Maximiliano Caufriez (7.1), Samuel Gigot (6.2), Georgiy Dzhikiya (6.8), Victor Moses (7.2), Nail Umyarov (7.2), Mikhail Ignatov (6.4), Ruslan Litvinov (6.5), Ayrton (6.8), Aleksandr Sobolev (8.5) and Quincy Promes (7.3).

The home team had on the bench: Nikolay Rasskazov (6.5), Aleksandr Maksimenko, Artem Rebrov, Aleksandr Lomovitskiy (6.4), Jordan Larsson, Andrey Eshchenko, Daniil Denisov, Daniil Markov, Vladislav Shitov and Ilya Kutepov.

Spartak Moskva could not rely on the presence of N. Rasskazov (injured).

Substitutions

Spartak Moskva made 3 changes: M. Ignatov for A. Lomovitskiy (72′), V. Moses for N. Rasskazov (83′) and Q. Promes for J. Larsson (90′).

Best player: Aleksandr Sobolev​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Spartak Moskva was Aleksandr Sobolev.

His rating is (8.5) with 2 goals, 27 passes (62% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 15 duels out of 31.

Napoli – Formation

Napoli started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Luciano Spalletti played with: Alex Meret (6.4), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (6.9), Kalidou Koulibaly (6.4), Juan Jesus (7.0), Mário Rui (7.4), Piotr Zieliński (7.5), Stanislav Lobotka (7.0), Hirving Lozano (6.8), Dries Mertens (6.4), Eljif Elmas (7.4) and Andrea Petagna (7.3).

They had on the bench: Antonio Cioffi, Konstantinos Manolas, B. Barba, Amir Rrahmani (6.7), Hubert Idasiak, G. Ambrosino, Fabián Ruiz, Kévin Malcuit and David Ospina.

Substitutions

Napoli made only 1 change substituting S. Lobotka for A. Rrahmani (78′)​.

Best player: Piotr Zieliński​

The player that probably impressed the most for Napoli was Piotr Zieliński.

His rating is (7.5) with 81 passes (83% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 4 duels out of 4. He performed 4 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Europa League.​

• Spartak Moskva – Napoli – 2-1