In a match just concluded Spartak Moscow advances in the UEFA Cup on a 2-1 aggregate as they drew level at one to Baník Ostrava at Luzhniki Stadium.
Hoping for a call-up to Guus Hiddink's squad, Nikita Bazhenov opened the scoring for Spartak only three minutes into the match to give Spartak the lead. Baník Ostrava was able to level it thirteen minutes before the break with Rudolf Otepka goal however they were unable to break through for the winning strike.
Spartak Moskova
Stipe Pletikosa, Ignas Dedura, Egor Filipenko,Clemente Rodríguez,Sergei Parshivlyuk,Cristian Maidana (Vladimir Bystrov 65'),Mozart,Radoslav Kováč,Ivan Saenko,Nikita Bazhenov,Aleksandr Prudnikov (Aleksandr Pavlenko 57') Unused:Soslan Djanaev,Vladislav Ryzhkov,Roman Shishkin,Artem Dzyuba,,Malik Fathi
FC Baník Ostrava
Petr Vašek,Radim Řezník (Martin Lukeš 82'),René Bolf,Rudolf Otepka,Aleš Neuwirth,Tomáš Marek,Daniel Tchuř,Tomáš Galásek,Tomáš Mičola (Mario Lička 82'),David Střihavka (Róbert Zeher 56'),Václav Svěrkoš Unused:Antonín Buček,Miroslav Markovic,Petr Pavlík,Tomáš Vrťo,Wojnar
