Spartak-Moscow Head Coach Dmitry Alenichev summarized the results of the match against Rostov.

— We reached quite successful result. Our play was very well organized and disciplined, and we have got important three points. Of course, the quality of the game leaves much to be desired. Many players who had left for their national teams returned in different condition. Some of them returned also emotionally exhausted due to the negative results. So it was very difficult to prepare the team in such short period. Of course, not only Spartak had such difficulties, but also other teams which had sent their players to the national team.

We also had problems with attacking players group. Ze Luis left at home due to some family programmes. Defensive football, which the team was playing in the second half, was related to the fact that we did not have any players of attack.

Spartak-Moscow official website