Orenburg vs Zenit St Petersburg Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Orenburg

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Orenburg will be wanting a better result here following the 2-1 Premier League defeat last time out to Ural.

In that match, Orenburg had 50% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. For Orenburg, the scorers were Vladimir Obukhov (83') and Kirill Kaplenko (89' Own goal). On the other side, Ural had 16 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Aleksandr Yushin (62') was the scorer for Ural.

At least three goals per game were recorded in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Orenburg have participated. Their opponents scored 11 of them in this period while Orenburg managed to get a total of 9.

Zenit St Petersburg

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In their previous game, Zenit St Petersburg drew 2-2 in the Premier League tie with FC Krasnodar.

In that game, Zenit St Petersburg managed 65% possession and 18 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, the goals were scored by Malcom (15') and Mateo Cassierra (96'). On the other side, Krasnodar had 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Mihajlo Banjac (51') and Aleksei Ionov (58') scored for FC Krasnodar.

Demonstrating their predisposition for fruitful encounters, the back of the net has been hit 22 times in the previous 6 games in which Zenit St Petersburg have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.67 goals per fixture. Opposing teams have got 7 of those goals. We will find out if that trend can be continued on here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head results stretching back to 26/04/2017 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Orenburg. They’ve not been able to get any victories at all while Zenit St Petersburg have been too good for them, beating them in 100% of those match-ups.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 in total at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The last league clash featuring these sides was Premier League match day 9 on 11/09/2022 when the final score was Zenit St Petersburg 8-0 Orenburg.

That time, Zenit St Petersburg managed 58% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. The goalscorers were Wendel (3', 43', 68'), Ivan Sergeev (17'), Daler Kuzyaev (19') and Malcom (29', 59').

Orenburg had 11 shots on goal with 3 on target. Aleksandr Pavlovets (51' Own goal) was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Evgeny Turbin.

ℹ️ Team News: Orenburg

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Orenburg boss Marcel Lička to be concerned with from an otherwise fully-primed group of players. Ivan Basic (Muscle Injury) is out of contention.

In our view, Orenburg will possibly line up in a 4-3-3 formation for this game and select Nikolay Sysuev, Aleksandr Ektov, Renato Gojkovic, Matías Pérez, Mateo Stamatov, Timur Ayupov, Lucas Vera, Kirill Kaplenko, Stepan Oganesyan, Dmitri Vorobyev and Brian Mansilla.

📰 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

Due to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Zenit St Petersburg manager Sergei Semak has no fitness worries at all before this clash.

It’s our belief that Sine-Belo-Golubye appear most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Mikhail Kerzhakov, Vyacheslav Karavaev, Dmitri Chistyakov, Nuraly Alip, Douglas Santos, Wilmar Barrios, Daler Kuzyaev, Malcom, Claudinho, Andrey Mostovoy and Ivan Sergeev.

✨ Prediction

We envisage that Orenburg have it within them to score a goal against this Zenit St Petersburg outfit, but a single goal probably won’t be enough to give them the result that they want.

Our selection here is for a very close game with a 1-2 advantage for Zenit St Petersburg at the end of this one. Let’s see what eventuates.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:54 16/05/2023