Intro:

Spartak Moscow beat Torpedo Moscow 3-1 in the Russian Premier League on Sunday (14th September), in their first competitive game at their new stadium, the Otkrytie Arena.

Script:

For the first time in Spartak Moscow's history they took to the field of their very own stadium on Sunday against city rivals Torpedo Moscow.

The brand new 45,000 capacity Otkrytie Arena is part of Russia's 2018 World Cup.

And fittingly Spartak scored the first competitive goal at the Otkrytie on 34 minutes, but they had Torpedo goalkeeper Yuri Zhevnov to thank for it.

The ball falling to Quincy Promes and the Dutch striker finished calmly.

Spartak might have been two or three up by half time, Spanish playmaker Jurado struck a post in the 40th minute with this long range effort.

However, the points were sealed with two goals in the space of a minute midway through the second half.

First, Promes got his second of the game after he was set up by Jurado's.

Then Jurado scored himself, the Spaniard playing a neat one-two with Artem Dzyuba before beating Zhevnov.

Torpedo grabbed a consolation with two minutes to go - Portuguese substitute Hugo Vieira running through the Spartak defence.

The game finished 3-1 and Spartak moved up to fourth place in the table on fifteen points from seven games.

Torpedo slip to fourteenth and have now lost three in a row.