📊 Form Guide

Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 1-3 Premier League success vs CSKA Moscow.

In that game, Zenit St Petersburg had 57% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, the goals were scored by Igor Diveev (30'), Aleksandr Sobolev (51') and Henrique (60'). At the other end, CSKA Moscow had 10 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Ivan Oblyakov (4') was the scorer for CSKA Moscow.

Their most recent results really do illustrate the point that there has been much resilience in the Zenit St Petersburg backline. Zenit St Petersburg have kept it tight, with the tally of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their past 6 clashes standing at 3. That pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this game, however.

Leading up to this clash, Zenit St Petersburg:

• haven't been beaten in the league by Sochi in their previous 6 games.
• are unbeaten in their last 20 home league matches. Incredible, really.

Sochi

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Sochi go into this encounter following a 3-1 Premier League win vs Orenburg in their most recent game.

In that game, Sochi had 51% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Sochi was Kirill Kravtsov (7', 33', 67'). On the other side, Orenburg had 14 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Jesus (69') was the scorer for Orenburg.

Igor Osinkin's Sochi have found the back of the net 7 times in the course of their latest 6 matches. The total of goals that have been scored against them during the equivalent period equals 5.

Going into this encounter, Sochi have left without a victory over Zenit St Petersburg when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

An inspection of past results between these clubs stretching back to 03/04/2022 shows that these encounters have not been kind to Sochi. They’ve not been able to get any wins whatsoever while Zenit St Petersburg have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 67 per cent of those match-ups.

A total of 17 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 16 of them from Sine-Belo-Golubye and 1 belonging to Belo-sinie. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.83.

The last league fixture between these clubs was Premier League match day 12 on 19/10/2025 when it ended Sochi 0-3 Zenit St Petersburg.

In that game, Sochi had 37% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

At the other end, Zenit St Petersburg got 12 shots at goal with 8 on target. Nuraly Alip (12'), Gustavo Mantuan (54') and Andrei Mostovoy (86') scored.

The referee was Egor Egorov.

📋 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

It looks as if Sine-Belo-Golubye could go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Denis Adamov, Vanja Drkusic, Igor Diveev, Nino, Douglas Santos, Wilmar Barrios, Wendel, Luiz Henrique, Maksim Glushenkov, Pedro and Aleksandr Sobolev.

🗞️ Team News: Sochi

We believe Belo-sinie might make use of a 3-4-3 formation, going with Aleksandr Degtev, Sergey Volkov, Marcelo Alves, Vyacheslav Litvinov, Kirill Zaika, Kirill Kravtsov, Maksim Mukhin, Ruslan Magal, Roman Ezhov, Vladimir Iljin and Mikhail Ignatov.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Sochi have enough to put one past this Zenit St Petersburg outfit, but it might not be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re tipping a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Zenit St Petersburg at the end of this one. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Victor Martins, 07:03 06/05/2026