On Friday, starting with 17:00, the Zenit – Lokomotiv Moscow match will be played, within the Russian Super Cup, scheduled in Moscow, on the TSKA arena. Lokomotiv Moscow is undefeated in the last 4 direct matches with Zenit, managing to win the previous Russian Super Cup, score 3-2 in July 2019. The last success for Zenit was registered in September 2018, an incredible 5-3 in St. Petersburg.
Zenit finished the Premier League season “en-fanfare”, winning 8 of the last 9 stages and at the same time the 7th trophy of Russian champion. Also, the “Taurus” managed the “event”, winning the Russian Cup, after a 1-0 in the final with the second division Khimki. Despite these positive results, Sergei Semak’s students have scored in 8 of the previous 9 matches in all competitions, and in the Premier League they had an average of 2.1 goals scored per game.
If Zenit won 5 Russian Super Cups, Lokomotiv Moscow has 3 such trophies. In the domestic championship, the Muscovites finished the 2019/2020 season in second place, 15 points behind the Zenit champion. The course of the Russian Cup was a very short one for Lokomotiv, which was eliminated in the last 16 by Baltika, a team from the Russian second league. It will be a reissue of the 2019 Super Cup, when Marko Nikolic’s students triumphed 3-2 in front of Zenit, after a super offensive duel.
Lokomotiv Moscow is one of the opponents with whom Zenit encountered problems in Russia. Even if in the internal championship something more tactical was played, in the eliminatory matches we expect goals, regardless of who will win the trophy!
Zenit won 7 Russian champion titles;
The “Lions” won 4 times in the Russian Cup;
Lokomotiv Moscow won 3 Russian champion titles;
The runner-up won 10 Russian Cups;
PREDICTION: Zenit to win @ 1,85
