Arsenal Tula vs Spartak: the favourite won't make a mistake?

Arsenal Tula are having a very weak season and the team has every chance to say goodbye to the premier league at the end of the season. Dmitry Parfenov's team is currently on the 13th line in the table with 23 points, just two points ahead of the direct relegation zone. However, at the same time, the Gunners still have this fixture to improve their standings.

In April, Arsenal pulled themselves together and played two high-quality games in a row. First, the Gunners outplayed Krasnodar at home with a score of 1:0. Then they got a landslide victory over Tambov 4:0. However, the winning streak was interrupted in the previous round - Arsenal lost 0:1 to Rostov away. Because of that defeat, they couldn't move away from the direct relegation zone.

Spartak had a very strong first half of the season, for a long time keeping the lead in the Premier League. However, Domenico Tedesco's team could not keep up throughout the whole season and started to lose points at the most crucial moment. Thus, the Red-whites have already dropped to the third line in the table. But the team still has chances to get into the Champions League.

Spartak is two points behind the second Lokomotiv and may return to second place by the end of the current round. However, it is also quite possible, that the Red-whites will be left without European competition at all: the sixth CSKA is at a distance of only three points, but if Spartak wins today, they can widen that gap.

In the last round, Spartak beat CSKA 1:0 in the Moscow derby, interrupting a series of two defeats in a row.