In a weekend match in week 7, on Sun Aug 28th, Zenit will travel to Jekaterinburg to battle Ural in a meeting of these two Premier League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 26 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. 15th placed Ural is fresh off their 0-1 loss against FC Nizhny Novgorod. Ibrokhimhalil Yoldoshev struck first for FC Nizhny Novgorod in the 79th minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Ural couldn’t muster any offence and FC Nizhny Novgorod ran away with the shutout win. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 5 of their last 10, while zenit is fresh off their 2-0 shutout win against Torpedo Moskva. Ivan Sergeev scored the first goal for Zenit in the 84th minute, then Malcom added another in the 88th minute on a feed from Aleksandr Erokhin In the end, Torpedo Moskva was frustrated by Zenit’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Zenit ended the match with the shutout victory. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Zenit should be reasonably happy with their performance.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Zenit won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Zenit’s most prolific scorer has been Ivan Sergeev. The Russian attacker has netted three goals over the last 5 matches.