Zenit St Petersburg vs FC Khimki Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 20)

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Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 4-1 Premier League triumph versus FC Krasnodar.

In that match, Zenit St Petersburg managed 46% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 7 on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, the goals were scored by Andrei Mostovoy (29'), Luciano Gondou (38'), Maksim Glushenkov (80') and Luiz Henrique (90'). At the other end, Krasnodar got 3 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Nikita Krivtsov (16') was the scorer for FC Krasnodar.

Their more recent scorelines reveal that huge efforts have been put in by the Zenit St Petersburg backline. Zenit St Petersburg have been mean at the back, resulting in the tally of goals that have gone past their goalkeeper during their past 6 games standing at 4. It will be interesting to see whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

Going into this contest, Zenit St Petersburg are undefeated in their last 3 league matches at home.

FC Khimki

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Krylia Sovetov in Premier League action, FC Khimki and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, FC Khimki had 42% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The only player to score for FC Khimki was Anton Zabolotny (14'). Krylia Sovetov Samara had 23 shots at goal with 7 on target. Kirill Pechenin (54'), Ivan Sergeev (75') and Igor Dmitriev (94') scored for Krylia Sovetov.

Franc Artiga's FC Khimki have seen their goal attempts be successful 6 times throughout their latest sextet of matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those matches comes to 9.

Heading into this contest, FC Khimki have not won away from home in their last 3 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 05/04/2021 shows that these encounters have not been kind to FC Khimki. They’ve not managed to come away with any victories whatsoever while Zenit St Petersburg have been too good for them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those matches.

A combined total of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 11 for Sine-Belo-Golubye and 5 coming from Khimki. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The previous league contest between these clubs was Premier League match day 5 on 18/08/2024 which ended up with the score at FC Khimki 1-1 Zenit St Petersburg.

In that game, FC Khimki managed 42% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 on target. Their only player to score was Edgardo Fariña (55').

Zenit St Petersburg got 14 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Andrei Mostovoy (88') scored.

The referee was Aleksey Sukhoy.

ℹ️ Team News: FC Khimki

Owing to an otherwise full-strength squad, there is only the sole fitness issue for the FC Khimki manager Franc Artiga to be concerned about. Diego Luna (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing here.

✨ Prediction

In this game, FC Khimki have the capability to breach the defence of this Zenit St Petersburg side, however it may not quite be enough to avoid a loss.

We can see a 2-1 victory for Zenit St Petersburg at the end of the 90 minutes. It should be a decent one.

Victor Martins, 00:02 19/04/2025