In the first match of the day, CSKA will face Ufa on the road, the game will start at 14:00 Moscow time. In the last round, the army team lost away to Khimki near Moscow (2:4), breaking a series of eight official matches without defeat (seven wins and one draw). Since the beginning of 2022, Ufa has won one victory in six meetings, the wards of Alexei Stukalov won away from Samara’s Krylya Sovetov.
CSKA is third in the RPL standings with 43 points in 24 matches. “Ufa” with 21 points is on the penultimate, 15th position. The game of the first round in Moscow ended with the victory of the army team with a score of 1:0. Ufa has never defeated CSKA at home, in 2019 the Ufa team tied with the army team with a score of 1:1.
Also on Saturday, Spartak will host Rubin Kazan at home, the match will be held at the Otkritie Bank Arena and will start at 19:00 Moscow time. The game of the first part of the championship ended with a home victory of the Kazan team with a score of 1:0. Last season, Rubin won once morest Spartak in Moscow, the meeting ended with a score of 2:0.
Spartak is ninth in the RPL standings with 30 points in 24 matches. In the last round, the red-and-whites interrupted a three-match streak without victories, having won at home once morest Arsenal Tula with a score of 3:0. Rubin is in 12th position with 25 points. Wards of Leonid Slutsky lost in the last four matches, the last victory of the Kazan team is dated March 7, when it was stronger than Akhmat (2:1).
Also on Saturday, St. Petersburg “Zenith” will play at home with the Yekaterinburg “Ural”, the meeting will begin at 16:30 Moscow time. The previous match of the teams in St. Petersburg ended with a confident victory of the blue-white-blue with a score of 5:1. The meeting of the first half of the championship ended with the score 0:0.
Zenit is in first place in the RPL standings with 52 points in 24 matches. Dynamo Moscow, which defeated Akhmat Grozny at home on Friday, has the same number of points, but is inferior in head-to-head results. Ural is in 14th position with 21 points.
The 25th round will end with four games on April 17, then the games Arsenal – Rostov, Wings of the Soviets – Krasnodar, Sochi – Lokomotiv and Nizhny Novgorod – Khimki will take place.
