CSKA Moscow v Spartak Nalchik match preview

By: j | August 24th, 2008

Make no mistake, CSKA has not given-up on title hopes and are relentless in their pursuit. This will be Army-men’s day as they will make up for the mid-campaign swoon with a clean-sheet victory and climb above Spartak Moscow today. What a race that makes for with Dynamo, CSKA and Spartak chasing down Rubin Kazan

Recent Form
CSKA – combined (2 W, 3 D, L) (6 GS, 0 GA)
Jul 26 Rubin Kazan 0 – 0 CSKA Moscow
Jul 30 CSKA Moscow 0 – 0 Zenit St Petersburg
Aug 3 CSKA Moscow 0 – 0 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Aug 10 Saturn Moscow Oblast 0 – 4 CSKA Moscow
Aug 17 CSKA Moscow 2 – 0 Terek Grozny

CSKA – away (2 W, 3 D, 0 L) (12 GS, 4 GA)
May 7 Tom’ Tomsk 0 – 0 CSKA Moscow
Jul 12 Spartak Moscow 1 – 5 CSKA Moscow
Jul 16 Amkar Perm’ 3 – 3 CSKA Moscow
Jul 26 Rubin Kazan 0 – 0 CSKA Moscow
Aug 10 Saturn Moscow Oblast 0 – 4 CSKA Moscow

Spartak Nalchik – combined (1 W, 2 D, 2 L) (3 GS, 4 GA)
Jul 19 Spartak Nalchik 1 – 1 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Jul 25 Khimki 2 – 0 Spartak Nalchik
Aug 3 Amkar Perm’ 0 – 0 Spartak Nalchik
Aug 10 Spartak Nalchik 2 – 0 Terek Grozny
Aug 16 Dynamo Moscow 1 – 0 Spartak Nalchik

Spartak Nalchik – home ( 3 W, 1 D, 1 L) (7 GS,5 GA)
May 2 Spartak Nalchik 0 – 3 FC Moscow
May 10 Spartak Nalchik 2 – 0 Rubin Kazan
Jul 5 Spartak Nalchik 2 – 1 Shinnik Yaroslav
Jul 19 Spartak Nalchik 1 – 1 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
Aug 10 Spartak Nalchik 2 – 0 Terek Grozny

Spartak Nalchik will need to play there absolute best at home to break down the CSKA resolve and push the play at CSKA who had five players (Igor Akinfeev, Aleksei Berezutskiy, Vasili Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich, Yuri Zhirkov) on International duty for Russia this week and could be fatigued. However that is a stretch because the Army-Men are anchored by one of the best young ‘keepers in the world, Igor Akinfeev who hasn’t allowed a goal in nearly five hundred minutes and I don’t think that will change today as the CSKA back-wall is remarkably efficient and disciplined. CSKA ~ Koni ~ is possibly the best team in the Premier League over the last month and in the attacking front much is owed to the work of Vágner Love and remarkable development of Alan Dzagoev. Don’t miss this great match set to begin in roughly one hour.