Premier League: Zenit receive Sochi in what could be an interesting football match. Here's all the pre-match info you need!
- Zenit have the most scored goals (21) in Premier League
- Zenit have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sochi have scored away.
These are busy days for the hometeam, as they were in action only four days ago in the Champions League. Thankfully the previous game, versus Malmö FF, was also a home game. The away team is better rested.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Zenit form and stats
4-0-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Zenit so far this season. The happy trend is alive also outside their own arena as Zenit has won their last four matches.
A nice win for Zenit last time playing, versus Malmö FF. That was also a home game and the match ended 4-0 with Wendel, Daler Kuzyaev, Aleksei Sutormin and Claudinho scoring for the victors. As mentioned above, Zenit "killed" Malmö FF in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Douglas Santos (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.32/10. Santos served one assist, hit six key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 43 successful passes (of 51 total).
Previous to that game, a Premier League home match hosting Krylya Sovetov in a game that was won 2-1.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 13 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won nine, drew three and lost one.
The Zenit manager S. Semak has got the team scoring with 9 from 4 home games in the league. On the other hand, Zenit have conceded 4 goals.
Sochi form and stats
The visitors are W2-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League.
Joaozinho was the last player to score for the away team. Sochi haven't scored a league goal in the last 180 minutes.
Sochi are travelling again after losing away to Krasnodar in their previous match (0-3). Midfield player Ibragim Tsallagov was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.32/10. Tsallagov dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 0-1 loss hosting Dinamo Moskva before that.You'll want to know how Sochi managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found three similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and two home wins.
The attacking power of Sochi when travelling is not overwhelming with 4 goals scored from 5 league matches away. As opposed to that, Sochi have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Zenit-Sochi H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Zenit five wins, Sochi zero wins, zero draws. four of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Erokhin 5 goals |  S. Azmoun 5 goals |  A. Sutormin 3 goals |
Zenit missing players
Sochi missing players
| Zenit | Sochi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 21 | 9 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 60% | 56% |
| 56% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 22% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 89% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 11% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 60% | 44% |
| 5.1 | 6 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9 | 5 | 5.3 |
| 4.2 | 5 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 1.4 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2.6 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16.2 | 15.2 | 17 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 13.8 | 15.2 |
| 6.6 | 6.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
| 36% | 36% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 22% | 27% |
- Sochi have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sochi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sochi haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zenit have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Zenit have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Zenit have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sochi have scored away.
- Zenit have scored in all their matches so far.
- Zenit have the most points (12) at home in Premier League
- Zenit have the most scored goals (21) in Premier League
- Zenit have the most scored goals in the first half (13) in Premier League
- Zenit have the the best goal difference (+11) in Premier League
- Zenit have won all their matches at home so far.
- Zenit haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Zenit is in the best form (4-2-0)
| 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 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 23 |
| 2 | Dinamo Moskva | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Lokomotiv Moskva | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 4 | Krasnodar | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 16 |
| 5 | CSKA Moskva | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 16 |
| 6 | Sochi | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Rubin Kazan | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 | Spartak Moskva | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Akhmat Grozny | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Olimpiyets | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | -2 | 11 |
| 11 | Krylya Sovetov | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -2 | 10 |
| 12 | Ufa | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 13 | Arsenal Tula | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 8 |
| 14 | Khimki | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Rostov | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -8 | 6 |
| 16 | Ural | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | -9 | 6 |