Week 13 brings us a match on Oct 16th, where Zenit and FC Nizhny Novgorod will play a match in Nizhniy Novgorod in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 7 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. FC Nizhny Novgorod is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Torpedo Moskva. Neither Torpedo Moskva nor FC Nizhny Novgorod could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 4 and 17 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. FC Nizhny Novgorod is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while zenit sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-1 draw against Fakel. Georgy Gongadze scored the first goal for Fakel in the 12th minute, then Malcom got the equalizer for Zenit in the 28th minute on a feed from Dejan Lovren earning Zenit a comeback draw. Zenit is on a hot streak lately, with only 0 loss in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season these teams were evenly matched with 1 win each.
In the last 5 matches, both Wendel and Malcom are on scoring streaks. They have each scored 4 goals for Zenit and look to continue their dominance.. Both Nikolay Kalinsky and Timur Suleimanov have been the hottest scorers for FC Nizhny Novgorod in the last five each having scored 2 goals.