The Spartak Moscow 2 Chronicle
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 dugout24 Aug 2026
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
- The dugout The form table has caught Makar Vysochenko
- The dugout Makar Vysochenko knocks on the manager's door
- Squad The room hears from Pavel Pelevin