Schedule of the 17th round of the World Cup – Russian Premier League (RPL) begins Saturday with three games. On this day the “Akron” – “Paris Nizhny Novgorod” games will be held, CSKA – Orenburg, Baltica – Spartak.
In the last match of the day, Spartak Moscow will play away against Baltika Kaliningrad, the match will start at 19:30 Moscow time. Kaliningraders occupy fifth place in the table RPLAfter scoring 29 points in 16 games, the team still has only one defeat this season in the Russian championship. Spartak is sixth with 28 points. In the first round Baltika defeated Spartak in Moscow with a score of 3:0, the red and whites finished the match with nine players.
For Spartak this match will be the third after the Serbian Dejan Stankovic left the position of head coach. Vadim Romanov, who was part of Stankovic’s coaching staff, was appointed interim head coach. Under his leadership, Spartak beat CSKA in the match RPL (1:0) and turned out to be stronger than the capital’s Lokomotiv (3:2) in the Fonbet – Russian Cup match. After the derby with CSKA Spartak general director Sergei Nekrasov called Romanov’s future at the club excellent. Romanov himself, in response to the question of when he might decide whether to stay or not, replied: “I don’t think about it at all.”
Spartak comes into the match with a run of four victories in all tournaments. Baltika are on a five-match unbeaten run in all competitions (two wins, three draws). The match will be judged by a jury led by Kirill Levnikov. Costa Rican striker Manfred Ugalde will not play for Spartak due to too many yellow cards; he scored 6 goals in 20 games this season.
On the other matches of the day
Match day will begin with the match between Akron Tolyatti and Paris NN. The meeting starts at 2 pm Moscow time. Akron is eighth in the standings with 21 points. RPL. Nizhny Novgorod with 8 points is in last place, 16th. In the first round Akron was stronger on the road with a score of 1:0. The top scorer of the Russian championship Artem Dzyuba plays for the Togliatti team; This season the attacker has scored 4 goals and provided 4 assists in 14 games RPL.
Also Saturday CSKA will play at home with Orenburg, kick-off – 16:30 Moscow time. If they win, the army team can move up to first place in the table RPLafter 16 rounds they are second with 33 points, one point behind leader Krasnodar. The Orenburg team is in 14th place with 12 points. The first round match between the teams ended in a draw with the score 0:0.
On November 30, the tour will continue with four matches, on this day the matches Krasnodar – Krylya Sovetov, Rostov – Lokomotiv, Akhmat – Dynamo and Zenit – Rubin will take place. The match between Sochi and Dynamo (Makhachkala) will take place on December 1.
