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Baltika Dominates Spartak Moscow in a Tense Match
Moscow, Russia – In a match held at the Lukoil Arena, Baltika defeated Spartak Moscow with a convincing victory. The match, officiated by Sergey Karasev, was marked by intensity and discipline, resulting in a flurry of cards. Spartak Moscow suffered an early expulsion of A. Zabolotnyi in the 11th minute, which conditioned their game from the start. Despite the adversity, they managed to maintain the draw until the 49th minute, when V. Saus opened the scoring for Baltika.
Spartak tried to react, but Baltika’s ball possession (65%) and numerical superiority made the task difficult for Spartak (35% possession). The situation became even more complicated for the home team with the expulsion of Marquinhos in the 58th minute, after receiving his second yellow card.
Baltika took advantage of their superiority to seal the match with goals from C. Offor in the 80th minute and N. Titkov in the 85th minute, thus securing a well-deserved victory. The match, corresponding to the second round of the regular season of the Russian Premier League, ended with a total of 16 fouls by Baltika and 11 by Spartak. In addition, the referee showed 4 yellow cards to Baltika and 4 yellow cards and 2 red cards to Spartak. A Baltika goal was disallowed by VAR in the 45th minute. Spartak Moscow barely managed to make 3 shots, none of them on target, while Baltika generated 22 chances, 10 of them directed at the opponent’s goal.
Substitutions spartak moscow: at minute 15 P. Solari came in and L. Garcia went out., at minute 55 D. Denisov came in and D. Khlusevich went out., at minute 55 R. Litvinov came in and A. Duarte went out., at minute 65 C. Martins came in and M. Ugalde went out., at minute 65 E. Barco came in and D. Prutsev went out.
Substitutions baltika: at minute 38 M. Beveev came in and E. Civic went out., at minute 66 B. Gil came in and C. Offor went out., at minute 66 M. Petrov came in and T. Yenne went out., at minute 72 A. Mendel came in and A. Mourid went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Spartak Moscow
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Baltika
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