📏 Form Guide

Dinamo Makhachkala

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Dinamo Makhachkala will be wanting a better result here after the 1-0 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Akron Tolyatti.

In that match, Dinamo Makhachkala managed 50% possession and 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, Akron Tolyatti got 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Artem Dzyuba (74') scored for Akron Tolyatti.

It has not been often in recent times that Dinamo Makhachkala haven’t conceded. The reality is that Dinamo Makhachkala have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 10 goals along the way. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if the trend might continue on in this upcoming game.

Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg head into the meeting after a 2-1 Premier League win with the eclipse of Nizhny Novgorod in their last match.

In that game, Zenit St Petersburg had 75% possession and 24 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Zenit St Petersburg was Aleksandr Sobolev (54', 83'). For their opponents, Pari Nizhny Novgorod had 7 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Vyacheslav Grulev (14') scored for Nizhny Novgorod.

In their last half-dozen outings, Zenit St Petersburg have helped themselves to the sum of 13 goals. Zenit St Petersburg have also managed to score on each one of those occasions. In that time, they have seen 4 goals scored by their opponents.

Analysis of their past results shows that Zenit St Petersburg:

• are undefeated in their last 2 league matches away from home.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

The previous league encounter between the two was Premier League match day 14 on 02/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 Dinamo Makhachkala.

In that match, Zenit St Petersburg managed 72% possession and 23 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Goals were scored by Nino (12') and Luciano Gondou (15').

At the other end, Dinamo Makhachkala got 7 shots at goal with 4 on target. Soslan Kagermazov (61') was the scorer.

The referee was Vitaly Meshkov.

📰 Team News: Dinamo Makhachkala

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Dinamo Makhachkala gaffer Khasanbi Bidzhiyev to contend with due to a largely intact set of players. Aleksandr Sandrachuk (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out.

It looks as if Dinamo Makhachkala should use a 3-4-2-1 system with Timur Magomedov, Valentin Paltsev, Idar Shumakhov, Jemal Tabidze, Mohamed Azzi, Houssem Mrezigue, Nikita Glushkov, Temirkan Sundukov, M. Hosseinnejad, Egas Cacintura and Gamid Agalarov.

📰 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

There’s a good chance that Sine-Belo-Golubye could decide to play in a 4-2-3-1 formation with a starting lineup of Evgeni Latyshonok, Gustavo Mantuan, Strahinja Erakovic, Nino, Douglas Santos, Wilmar Barrios, Yuri Gorshkov, Luiz Henrique, Luciano Gondou, Pedro and Aleksandr Sobolev.

💡 Prediction

Our assessment is that Dinamo Makhachkala have it in them to score against this Zenit St Petersburg lineup, but a single goal is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 1-2 winning margin for Zenit St Petersburg when the full-time whistle blows. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Lucas Pereira, 13:03 10/05/2025