Akhmat Grozny — Spartak Moscow 1:2

Akhmat Grozny

1:2

Spartak Moscow

The score says how it ended. xG says how it should have ended: it is the sum of the chances each shot was worth, not an opinion about the game.

Who deserved it

The score matched the game: Spartak Moscow was the better side by chances too.

The numbers

Team	Goals	xG	Goals − xG	Expected points
Akhmat Grozny	1	0.86	+0.1	1.20
Spartak Moscow	2	1.04	+1.0	1.49

Goals

Minute	Goal	Team	Shot xG	Assist
4'	Egas Cacintura (penalty)	Akhmat Grozny	0.75
38'	Christopher Wooh	Spartak Moscow	0.26	Marquinhos
90'	Esequiel Barco	Spartak Moscow	0.05

Key chances

Minute	Player	Team	xG	Outcome
94'	Danil Prutsev	Spartak Moscow	0.30	blocked
38'	Christopher Wooh	Spartak Moscow	0.26	goal, header, from a corner
54'	Christopher Martins Pereira	Spartak Moscow	0.24	off target, header

Shots: Akhmat Grozny 4, Spartak Moscow 11; big chances (xG 0.3 and above): 1 and 1.

How the game went

In the first half xG was Akhmat Grozny 0.81, Spartak Moscow 0.32: a small edge for Akhmat Grozny. In the second half xG was Akhmat Grozny 0.04, Spartak Moscow 0.74: a small edge for Spartak Moscow. The edge in chances passed from Akhmat Grozny to Spartak Moscow.

How it fits the season

Akhmat Grozny: −4.1 for the season (12 in the table). Spartak Moscow: +1.5 (3). The gap between points and xPTS is built from matches like this one.

Other matches of the round

Orenburg — Zenit 0:3Krasnodar — Fakel Voronezh 3:2

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