CSKA Moskva awaits Spurs side looking to bounce back

Tottenham Hotspur FC visit Moscow for the first time, CSKA Moskva the opponents as the London club seek their first points in Group E.

• If Spurs made a false start on matchday one when losing 2-1 at home to AS Monaco FC, CSKA began in promising fashion as they came from two goals behind to draw 2-2 at Bayer 04 Leverkusen through goals by Alan Dzagoev and Roman Eremenko.

Match background

CSKA
• CSKA's home record in the 2015/16 UEFA Champions League was W2 D2 L1. The solitary defeat came against VfL Wolfsburg (0-2).

• They faced Manchester United FC in the group stage last season, drawing 1-1 at home and losing 1-0 at Old Trafford.

• In the 2014/15 group stage they came from two goals behind to hold Manchester City FC 2-2 in Moscow, Bibras Natcho scoring the equaliser with a penalty.

• CSKA have won none of their last four home games against English visitors. Their last victory was against Aston Villa FC (2-0) in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup round of 32.

• Igor Akinfeev, Sergei Ignashevich and Aleksei Berezutski played in CSKA's first home fixture against opposition from England – a 1-0 loss to Chelsea FC in November 2004.

• CSKA's overall home record against teams from England is W2 D2 L3.

Tottenham
• Tottenham's away record in last season's UEFA Europa League was W1 D2 L2. Their only victory was a 1-0 success at Azerbaijan's Qarabağ FK.

• Spurs won 2-0 at an FC Anji side including Lacina Traoré on their last visit to Russia in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League group stage, Jermain Defoe and Nacer Chadli scoring.

• Now a CSKA player, Natcho scored for FC Rubin when Spurs lost 1-0 there in the 2011/12 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Coach and player links
• Mauricio Pochettino won in Moscow as an RCD Espanyol player in a 1-0 UEFA Cup group stage victory over FC Lokomotiv Moskva in 2005/06.

• Leonid Slutski was coach of the Russia side who drew 1-1 with England at UEFA EURO 2016 thanks to Vasili Berezutski's injury-time equaliser. Eric Dier had earlier scored a free-kick past Akinfeev.

• Current CSKA and Spurs players involved in that match in Marseille were: Ignashevich, Georgi Schennikov, and Aleksandr Golovin (Russia); Kyle Walker, Danny Rose, Dele Alli, Harry Kane (England).

• Ben Davies was in the Wales side that later eliminated Russia with a 3-0 victory in the nations' final EURO group game.

• Hugo Lloris and Moussa Sissoko played in France's 4-2 win over Slutski's Russia in a pre-EURO friendly at the Stade de France on 29 March. Akinfeev, Vasili and Aleksei Berezutski, Golovin and Dzagoev played for Russia.

• Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen helped Belgium beat Russia 1-0 at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Son Heung-Min was in the Korea Republic side who held Russia 1-1 in the same group phase in Brazil.

• Zoran Tošić began his brief Manchester United career as a substitute in a 2-1 FA Cup fourth-round win over Tottenham in January 2009.

• Traoré played against Sissoko in Anji's 0-0 home draw with the latter's Newcastle United FC side in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 16.

• Traoré spent the second half of 2013/14 on loan at Everton FC, playing two games and scoring once.

• Victor Wanyama won 3-2 at FC Spartak Moskva with Celtic FC in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage.

• Alderweireld, Vertonghen and Christian Eriksen lost 3-0 in Moscow with AFC Ajax, beaten by Spartak in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 16.

• Eremenko helped FC Dynamo Kyiv knock out Manchester City with a 2-0 home win in the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League round of 16, but lost in the quarter-final of the same competition with Rubin against Chelsea FC in 2012/13, despite a 3-2 home win.

• Aleksandrs Cauņa made five appearances and scored one goal on loan at Watford FC in English football's second tier in March and April 2009.

• Have played together:
Pontus Wernbloom & Mousa Dembélé (AZ Alkmaar, 2009/10).

Match facts

CSKA
• On 21 September, a second-string CSKA side succumbed 2-1 at FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk in the last 32 of the Russian Cup. Defender Nikita Chernov, on loan from CSKA, opened the scoring against his parent club. Georgi Milanov equalised for the Army Men.

• That ended CSKA's eight-match unbeaten run in all competitions, although Slutski's team are still 16 games without defeat in the Premier-Liga, a sequence dating back to 3 April. On Saturday they drew 1-1 at home with FC Krasnodar. 

• Cauņa is still recovering from the ankle operation he had in July.

Tottenham
• Son Heung-Min's second double in as many away matches earned Tottenham a 2-1 victory at Middlesbrough FC on Saturday.

• Son has equalled his tally of four league goals from last season, achieved in 28 appearances (13 starts).

• Kane scored the winner against Sunderland AFC on 18 September but later sustained a right ankle injury and is expected to be sidelined for around two months.

• Three days later, Pochettino made 11 changes for the visit of Gillingham FC in the English League Cup third round, Joshua Onomah and Vincent Janssen scoring their first Spurs goals in a 5-0 success.

• Georges-Kévin N'Koudou and academy product Cameron Carter-Vickers made their Tottenham debuts against a Gillingham side managed by former Spurs defender Justin Edinburgh.

• Alli (until 2022), Rose (2021) and Walker (2021) have signed new contracts since matchday one.