The Spartak Moscow 2 Chronicle
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ivan Sorokin scores twice — 8.13
Two goals and a mark of 8.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Makar Vysochenko stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Makar Vysochenko and Spartak Moscow 2 agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Spartak Moscow 2
Pavel Pelevin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matvey Kuznetsov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
One of their own: Ivan Sorokin
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match1 Aug 2026
Spartak Moscow 2 get the job done against Tver
A 2‑0 win over Tver, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Pavel Pelevin was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Spartak Moscow 2 and Makar Vysochenko
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Spartak Moscow 2 are still strangers to each other
33 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Pyotr Zhirinovsky has his say
- The dugout Vladislav Djuraev does not fit this one
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Dmitry Shopin