MOSKVA. Leicester City had a close win over Spartak Moskva. Leicester City took advantage of its superior ball possession (57%).

The match was played at the Otkrytiye Arena stadium in Moskva on Wednesday and it started at 2:30 pm local time. The referee was Anastasios Sidiropoulos with the help of Polychronis Kostaras and Lazaros Dimitriadis. The 4th official was Aristotelis Diamantopoulos. The weather was rainy. The temperature was quite cold at 2.5 degrees Celsius or 36.41 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 75%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Leicester City had a superior ball possession 57% while Spartak Moskva was struggling with a 43% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Spartak Moskva was more aggressive with 59 dangerous attacks and 11 shots of which 4 were on target. Even so, Leicester City managed to find the solution to win this match.​

Spartak Moskva shot 11 times, 4 on target, 7 off target. On the other side, Leicester City shot 20 times, 7 on target, 13 off target.

Cards

Spartak Moskva received 2 yellow cards (A. Lomovitskiy and R. Litvinov). On the opposite side, Leicester City received 2 yellow cards (R. Pereira and B. Soumare).

Standings

After this match, Spartak Moskva stays with 3 points to occupy the 3rd place in the table. Regarding the opposition, Leicester City has 4 points (2nd).

Next matches

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

Leicester City will play away agasint Napoli on the 9th of December with a 0-0 head to head record.

Spartak Moskva – Formation

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

The manager Rui Carlos Pinho da Vitória decided to play with the following team: Aleksandr Maksimenko (5.8), Nikolay Rasskazov (6.2), Samuel Gigot (6.1), Georgiy Dzhikiya (6.4), Victor Moses (7.4), Ruslan Litvinov (6.1), Roman Zobnin (6.2), Ayrton (6.7), Jordan Larsson (7.3), Zelimkhan Bakaev (6.2) and Aleksandr Sobolev (7.5).

The home team had on the bench: Andrey Eshchenko, Ilya Gaponov, Aleksandr Selikhov, Mikhail Ignatov (6.6), Quincy Promes (7.1), Stepan Melnikov, Artem Rebrov, Ilya Kutepov and Aleksandr Lomovitskiy.

Substitutions

Spartak Moskva made 3 changes: Z. Bakaev for Q. Promes (68′), R. Zobnin for M. Ignatov (68′) and J. Larsson for A. Lomovitskiy (89′).

Best player: Aleksandr Sobolev​

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

His rating is (7.5) with 2 goals, 24 passes (62% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 16.

Leicester City – Formation

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

Regarding the opposition, Brendan Rodgers played with: Kasper Schmeichel (5.8), Daniel Amartey (6.9), Jonny Evans (6.9), Çağlar Söyüncü (6.6), Ricardo Pereira (7.3), Youri Tielemans (7.2), Boubakary Soumaré (7.6), Luke Thomas (7.3), James Maddison (8.7), Kelechi Iheanacho (8.1) and Patson Daka (9.9).

They had on the bench: Danny Ward, Hamza Choudhury (6.6), Ryan Bertrand (6.4), Filip Benković, Eldin Jakupović, Jannik Vestergaard (6.4), Jamie Vardy, Timothy Castagne, Harvey Barnes, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Marc Albrighton (7.2) and Ademola Lookman.

Leicester City could not rely on the presence of H. Choudhury (injured).

Substitutions

Leicester City made 4 changes: R. Pereira for M. Albrighton (59′), Y. Tielemans for H. Choudhury (65′), J. Evans for J. Vestergaard (82′) and L. Thomas for R. Bertrand (82′).

Best player: Patson Daka​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Leicester City was Patson Daka.

His rating is (9.9) with 4 goals, 13 passes (76% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 3 duels out of 7. He performed 1 cross.

Results of the day

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

• Spartak Moskva – Leicester City – 3-4