Matvey Kuznetsov

Central Defender - Spartak Moscow 2
25 Aug 2026
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The Spartak Moscow 2 Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Arseny Kondoyanidi, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Spartak Moscow 2 cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Player ratings

Ilja Ivarlak beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Spartak Moscow 2

Georgy Rykov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Spartak Moscow 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Makar Vysochenko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Arseny Kondoyanidi sends Spartak Moscow 2 past Yenisey 2

It finished 1‑0, and it was Arseny Kondoyanidi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Spartak Moscow 2.

The dugout

Matvey Kuznetsov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Maksim Ovchinnikov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maksim Ovchinnikov and Spartak Moscow 2 agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Tikhon Zhemchuzhnikov has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Tikhon Zhemchuzhnikov on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief