Match Recap
Manfred Ugalde had the last word, and it's the only one that mattered. Spartak Moscow looked set to drop points at home to a struggling Fakel side until the 90+1st minute, when Ugalde snatched a 1-0 winner and turned a stalemate into three vital points in the Premier League. The timing tells the story: Spartak, sitting fourth on 16 points off a WLDWW run, needed exactly this kind of nerve, while Fakel's misery deepens at 16th with just three points and a DLLDL slide that shows no sign of stopping. On another day this fixture ends goalless and forgettable; instead it becomes a reminder of how ruthless the table's gap between these two sides really is. Ugalde won't trouble league top scorer A. Sobolev's tally with this one, but a stoppage-time winner carries its own weight, especially against a team desperate for anything to arrest their slide. Watch how Spartak worked the ball forward in that final minute and Ugalde's finish that broke Fakel's hearts right as the clock ran out.
