CSKA Moscow vs Zenit St Petersburg Live Stream, Predictions

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CSKA Moscow

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CSKA Moscow are hoping to win again after their last result, a 4-0 Premier League victory versus Krylia Sovetov.

In that match, CSKA Moscow managed 52% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 6 on target. For CSKA Moscow, goals were scored by Anton Zabolotny (24'), Ivan Oblyakov (26'), Fyodor Chalov (42') and Willyan Rocha (75'). At the other end, Krylia Sovetov Samara had 8 shots on goal with 1 on target.

Over their past six fixtures, Vladimir Fedotov's CSKA Moscow have found the net a total of 8 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.33.

Going into this contest, CSKA Moscow have not registered a win against Zenit St Petersburg in their previous 8 matches in the league.

Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg go into this meeting after a 3-2 Premier League win versus FC Khimki in their previous game.

In that game, Zenit St Petersburg managed 53% possession and 15 shots at goal with 9 on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, the goalscorers were Malcom (19', 55') and Gustavo Mantuan (91'). Khimki got 11 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Butta Magomedov (75', 86') scored for FC Khimki.

A succession of very capable displays from the Zenit St Petersburg defensive unit has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 4 from their past 6 fixtures combined. In that period of time, their own forwards have managed to score 17. However, we’ll just have to find out whether that pattern shall be sustained in this next game or not.

Their prior results show that Zenit St Petersburg:

• haven't been beaten by CSKA Moscow when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 9 league matches away from home. What an impressive run of results.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 20/06/2020 tells us that these fixtures have been miserable for CSKA Moscow. They have not managed to get any victories at all whereas Zenit St Petersburg have remained in the ascendancy, finishing as winners in 100% of those ties.

An aggregate of 18 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 4 for Armeytsy and 14 being from Sine-Belo-Golubye. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league match featuring these sides was Premier League match day 5 on 13/08/2022 when it finished Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 CSKA Moscow.

On that occasion, Zenit St Petersburg had 61% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. The goals were scored by Malcom (45') and Gustavo Mantuan (85').

On the other side, CSKA Moscow got 6 attempts at goal with 1 on target. Fyodor Chalov (63') scored.

The referee was Pavel Kukuyan.

📋 Team News: CSKA Moscow

There’s just the sole fitness concern for the CSKA Moscow boss Vladimir Fedotov to be concerned with from an otherwise complete set of players. Ilya Agapov (Knee Injury) is out of contention.

📋 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

Owing to a completely injury-free squad ready to go, the Zenit St Petersburg manager Sergei Semak does not have any fitness worries at all ahead of this clash.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that CSKA Moscow may well find it hard to breach the defence of this Zenit St Petersburg side who we think will likely do enough to score at the other end and edge ahead.

We’re therefore predicting a narrow 0-1 winning margin for Zenit St Petersburg when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be interesting.

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Renata Leite, 03:18 15/03/2023