Fakel Voronezh vs Zenit St Petersburg Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Fakel Voronezh

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Fakel Voronezh will play in this fixture coming off the back of a 0-0 Premier League drawn match versus Sochi.

In that match, Fakel Voronezh had 35% possession and 4 shots on goal with 2 on target. On the other side, Sochi got 23 shots at goal with 3 on target.

Fakel Voronezh have really been misfiring in more recent games. Their sum of goals stands at just 1 vs opponents during their last 6 outings. In those games, Fakel Voronezh have also seen the tally of goals scored against them total 8. Nonetheless, time will tell if that pattern might persist in this game or not.

Coming into this contest, Fakel Voronezh are without a home win in the past 6 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Zenit St Petersburg

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Dynamo Moscow in Premier League competition, Zenit St Petersburg and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Zenit St Petersburg managed 66% possession and 8 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Dynamo Moscow had 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Konstantin Tyukavin (76') scored for Dynamo Moscow.

For 5 of the past six games featuring Zenit St Petersburg, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and opposing teams. The overall average number of goals per game in that spell is just 1.67, with the average goals for Sine-Belo-Golubye equalling 0.83.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Premier League match day 4 on 13/08/2023 when the final score was Zenit St Petersburg 2-0 Fakel Voronezh.

On that occasion, Zenit St Petersburg had 72% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Ivan Sergeev (16') and Gustavo Mantuan (98').

At the other end, Fakel Voronezh had 5 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Pavel Shadykhanov.

📋 Team News: Fakel Voronezh

It doesn’t get much better regarding selection, with just the lone fitness concern for the Fakel Voronezh gaffer Igor Cherevchenko to be concerned with thanks to an almost full-strength group. Evgeniy Markov (Muscle injury) will miss out.

We think that Fakelony will possibly opt for a 5-3-2 formation this time with Aleksandr Belenov, Vasili Cherov, Rayan Senhadji, Igor Yurganov, Sergey Bozhin, Igor Kalinin, Roman Akbashev, Irakli Kvekveskiri, Vyacheslav Yakimov, Nichita Motpan and Khyzyr Appaev.

📰 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

Owing to a completely healthy squad ready to go, the Zenit St Petersburg manager Sergei Semak does not have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match.

We’re of the thinking that Sine-Belo-Golubye seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Mikhail Kerzhakov, Douglas Santos, Nino, Strahinja Erakovic, Vyacheslav Karavaev, Wilmar Barrios, Wendel, Andrey Mostovoy, Claudinho, Artur and Mateo Cassierra.

💡 Prediction

We’re envisaging that Fakel Voronezh will have a tough ask to see themselves scoring against this Zenit St Petersburg lineup who we think will likely manage to score & go ahead.

That’s why we have predicted a very even match with a 0-1 win for Zenit St Petersburg at the end of the 90 minutes.

Hoping for a good game.

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Renata Leite, 13:07 02/05/2024