It’s HT here at the Lev Yashin Dynamo Stadium and we’re level thanks to excellent strike from @VictorMoses #DynamoSpartak | 1:1 pic.twitter.com/vGc0ISmmtc FC Spartak Moscow (@fcsm eng) March 13, 2021
Later in the second half, Alexander Sobolev scored the match-winning goal for Spartak Moscow with his strike from the penalty spot in the 63rd minute.
Moses could not finish the first-half as he limped off with a suspected knee injury in the 40th minute, but Cameroon striker Clinton Njie was in action for Dynamo Moscow as a 67th-minute substitute.
Since he moved to Russia on a season-long loan from Chelsea in October, the former Super Eagles midfielder has scored two goals in 12 Premier League matches.
Having in mind that the winners of the crunch Moscow derby would be guaranteed a place in the quarter-finals of the competition, both clubs came to the VTB Arena with all guns blazing.
Nevertheless, it was the Loudspeakers who took the lead in the 16th minute as Daniil Fomin converted from the penalty mark after VAR replays adjudged Moses to have handled a corner kick taken by Daniil Lesovoy. Fomin took the ensuing kick and sent goalkeeper Aleksandr Maksimenko the wrong way.
All efforts from the visiting team to level matters proved abortive as the first-half ended 1-0 in favour of Sandro Schwarz’s team.