The Spartak Moscow Gazette
Match10 Oct 2026
No mercy from Spartak Moscow
Krylya Sovetov will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Spartak Moscow were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Spartak Moscow do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Spartak Moscow
Roger Ibañez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 Spartak Moscow players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 8 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Market12 Oct 2026
Spartak Moscow promote Evgeniy Goncharov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Evgeniy Goncharov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
Vasily Volkov steps up from the Spartak Moscow academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vasily Volkov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Esequiel Barco beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
One of those days for Victor Parada
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.19, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Manfred Ugalde
Marked 8.17 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Marquinhos
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Nail Umyarov
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Pablo Solari's mistake