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Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg will be looking for another win after the 4-1 Premier League success versus FC Krasnodar.

In that match, Zenit St Petersburg had 46% possession and 14 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, the goals were scored by Andrei Mostovoy (29'), Luciano Gondou (38'), Maksim Glushenkov (80') and Luiz Henrique (90'). Krasnodar had 3 shots 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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After being beaten in their last game against Krylia Sovetov in Premier League competition, FC Khimki will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, FC Khimki managed 42% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for FC Khimki was Anton Zabolotny (14'). For their opponents, Krylia Sovetov Samara had 23 shots on goal with 7 of them 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

Checking on past results between these clubs stretching back to 05/04/2021 reveals that these encounters have not been good ones for FC Khimki. They have not been able to register any victories at all while Zenit St Petersburg have been too good for them, running out winners in 67% of those matches played.

16 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 11 from Sine-Belo-Golubye and 5 belonging to Khimki. That’s an average goals per game of 2.67.

The last league clash between these sides was Premier League match day 5 on 18/08/2024 and the score finished FC Khimki 1-1 Zenit St Petersburg.

On that day, FC Khimki had 42% possession and 6 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Their only player to score was Edgardo Fariña (55').

Zenit St Petersburg had 14 shots at goal with 3 on target. Andrei Mostovoy (88') scored.

The referee was Aleksey Sukhoy.

📋 Team News: FC Khimki

Due to a mostly full-strength group, there’s just the lone fitness problem 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, 13:03 20/04/2025