Early weight of the money insinuate Zenit advantage when hosting Krylya Sovetov

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Competition: Russia Premier League
Competition: Fri 22.July
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Saint Petersburg Stadium (68000 seats)

It's game day two of the Premier League campaign and everything to play for. Don't miss our thorough preview of Zenit-Krylya Sovetov!

These teams have little in common geographically as Krylya Sovetov have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Zenit and Krylya Sovetov should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Zenit form and stats

In the previous season, Zenit's league stats were 19 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses, resulting in 1st spot in the Premier League. In these 30 matches they scored 66 goals and let in 28. Appearing as the host team in the former season Zenit delivered 13-1-1 (win-draw-lost) with 43 goals and 15 conceded.

Zenit shared the glory with Khimki in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. Wendel (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.7/10. Wendel scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 72 successful passes (of 81 total).

Zenit are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 8 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 5, drew 1 and lost 2.

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Krylya Sovetov form and stats

Let's have a look at how Krylya Sovetov performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 5 draws and 13 defeats. In total they scored 39 and conceded 36 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 5 - drew 2 and lost 8 with 14/21 goals scored/conceded. Only one away game in the Premier League so far for Krylya Sovetov and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 5 victories, 2 draws and 8 losses from 15 travels.

It's the second away game in a row for Krylya Sovetov, but there's smiles all around after the 4-2 victory versus Orenburg (placed 15th) last time out. A stark raving crazy fixture with lots of goals last time out for Sovetov, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that fixture, will this game be as gleeful? Krylya Sovetov goalie Lomaev was high and low in the Orenburg game, contributing seven saves towards the victory. Attacker Glushenkov got a player rating of 9.0 in the game. "Man of the match" Glushenkov scored two goals, hit the woodwork once, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 29 successful passes (of 34 total).

A loss against Lokomotiv Moskva was the result prior to that, in a home game.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Krylya Sovetov has managed 4 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: eight - one - one (Zenit wins - draws - Krylya Sovetov wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Krylya SovetovM. Glushenkov
M. Glushenkov
2 goals
ZenitM. Valle da Silva
M. Valle da Silva
1 goals
Krylya SovetovD. Yakuba
D. Yakuba
1 goals

Zenit missing players

Krylya Sovetov missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Zenit Krylya Sovetov
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 1 1
0 0 0 Won W 0 1 1
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
1 0 0 Scored S 0 4 4
1 0 0 Conceded C 0 2 2
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
8 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 3
2 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 8 8
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 27 27
2 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 9 9
50% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 44% 44%
 
8 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 17 17
3 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 8 8
Zenit Last season Krylya Sovetov
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
30 15   Played P   15 30
19 13   Won W   5 12
8 1   Drew D   2 5
3 1   Lost L   8 13
66 43   Scored S   14 39
28 15   Conceded C   21 36
93% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   93% 97%
83% 87%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   60% 67%
57% 80%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   47% 43%
43% 60%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   20% 20%
20% 33%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   13% 13%
70% 73%   BTTS BTTS   53% 50%
27% 27%   Clean Sheets C S   27% 30%
10% 0%   Failed to Score F T   27% 23%
 
6 6.5   Corners for (avg) C F   4.7 4.6
3.4 3.3   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 4.2
1.5 1.7   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2
4 1   Red cards R C   4 4
 
16.4 17.7   Shots (avg) S (   11.5 12.7
5.9 6.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.9 4.1
37% 42%   Goal Efficiency G E   24% 31%
 
10.7 11.5   Shots against (avg) S A   14.3 12.4
3.5 3.2   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.6 4.9

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Krylya Sovetov 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
2 CSKA Moskva 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 Akhmat Grozny 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 Khimki 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
5 Spartak Moskva 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
6 Zenit 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
7 Dinamo Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Fakel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Olimpiyets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Krasnodar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Lokomotiv Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Rostov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Sochi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Torpedo Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Orenburg 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
16 Ural 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zenit 30 19 8 3 66 28 15 13 1 1 43 15 15 6 7 2 23 13 38 65
2 Sochi 30 17 5 8 54 30 15 8 3 4 29 16 15 9 2 4 25 14 24 56
3 Dinamo Moskva 30 16 5 9 53 41 15 7 3 5 25 19 15 9 2 4 28 22 12 53
4 CSKA Moskva 30 15 5 10 42 29 15 9 3 3 24 9 15 6 2 7 18 20 13 50
5 Krasnodar 30 14 8 8 42 30 15 8 3 4 19 13 15 6 5 4 23 17 12 50
6 Lokomotiv Moskva 30 13 9 8 43 39 15 9 2 4 25 17 15 4 7 4 18 22 4 48
7 Akhmat Grozny 30 13 3 14 36 38 15 9 0 6 23 17 15 4 3 8 13 21 -2 42
8 Krylya Sovetov 30 12 5 13 39 36 15 7 3 5 25 15 15 5 2 8 14 21 3 41
9 Rostov 30 10 8 12 47 51 15 6 2 7 28 26 15 4 6 5 19 25 -4 38
10 Spartak Moskva 30 10 8 12 37 41 15 6 5 4 22 17 15 4 3 8 15 24 -4 38
11 Ural 30 8 9 13 27 35 15 3 6 6 11 14 15 5 3 7 16 21 -8 33
12 Olimpiyets 30 8 9 13 26 39 15 4 3 8 12 19 15 4 6 5 14 20 -13 33
13 Khimki 30 7 11 12 34 47 15 4 8 3 21 19 15 3 3 9 13 28 -13 32
14 Ufa 30 6 12 12 29 40 15 3 8 4 16 17 15 3 4 8 13 23 -11 30
15 Rubin Kazan 30 8 5 17 34 56 15 5 2 8 19 25 15 3 3 9 15 31 -22 29
16 Arsenal Tula 30 5 8 17 30 59 15 3 7 5 17 22 15 2 1 12 13 37 -29 23

Krylya Sovetov:
Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Krylya Sovetov 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
2 CSKA Moskva 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 Akhmat Grozny 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
4 Khimki 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
5 Spartak Moskva 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
6 Zenit 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
7 Dinamo Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Fakel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Olimpiyets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Krasnodar 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Lokomotiv Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Rostov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Sochi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Torpedo Moskva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 Orenburg 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
16 Ural 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0

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The Premier League, or the Russian Football Championship, is the top level football league in Russia. It has 16 teams who play each other home and away for a total of 30 matches each. After this the top team in the league table is the champion, the bottom two relegated directly while two teams play a relegation playoff.