Match Report
10 points and 3 places separated them: Spartak Moskva 4th with 3, FC Barcelona 1st with 13. Spartak Moskva had been under-performing their position — 25th on five-round form against 4th in the table. Per game in the league, Spartak Moskva were scoring 1.17 and conceding 2.33, FC Barcelona 1.83 and 0.83, against a competition average of 1.48 goals per team per game.
The five-game form split read 6/15 points for Spartak Moskva against 12/15 for FC Barcelona.
The match was played at Olimpiyskiy stadion Luzhniki in Moskva (capacity 16,500). FC Barcelona led 3-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-3.