Daku scores twice as Spartak beat Rubin 4-0 to move third in Russian league
In short
Spartak Moscow beat Rubin Kazan 4-0 at home in the 11th round of the Russian football championship on October 18. Mirlind Daku scored twice against his former club as Spartak moved into third place.
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Spartak Moscow defeated Rubin Kazan 4-0 at home on October 18 in the 11th round of the Russian football championship. Mirlind Daku scored twice against his former club, while Pablo Solari and Manfred Ugalde also scored. The victory lifted Spartak to third place in the Russian Premier League with 23 points. Rubin occupied tenth place with 12 points, RIA Novosti reported. [ 2 ]
Ugalde scored in the 43rd minute and Daku added goals in the 65th and 90th minutes. Daku did not celebrate against Rubin, where he played from 2023 to 2026 and scored 37 goals to become the club's third-highest scorer, according to RIA Novosti. TASS said the forward joined Spartak from Rubin in early August. RBC described the 4-0 result as Spartak's biggest league win of the season and said Solari provided both the winning goal and an assist. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Before the match, a monument to Nikita Simonyan, an Olympic champion with the Soviet national team and a former Spartak coach, was unveiled opposite Stand A. The stand had been named after Simonyan in November 2025, RIA Novosti reported. Spartak next visit CSKA in a Moscow derby on October 25. Rubin host Krylya Sovetov a day earlier. [ 2 ]
Why it matters
Spartak reached 23 points and third place in the Russian Premier League. Rubin were tenth with 12 points.