Spartak won a strong-willed victory on the road over Dynamo in the central match of the 23rd round of the RPL. The blue and white opened the scoring in the opening with a penalty awarded for handball in their own penalty area by Nail Umyarov.

A quadruple substitution of Guillermo Abascal and mistakes by Igor Leshchuk helped the red-whites turn the tide of the confrontation in the end. The oldest Moscow derby between Dynamo and Spartak has always been distinguished by increased integrity.