Borussia started their journey in the current Champions League with a failure in Rome. Lucien Favre’s team was defeated with a score 1:3 by Lazio. However, this failure remains the only one for the bumblebees so far. They won the next three matches and are in the first place in the group with nine points, being ahead of the second Lazio by one point. Borussia stumbled in the last round in the Bundesliga and lost 1:2 to Cologne, dropping to fourth place in the table, but the distance from the leader Bayern is calculated by only two points.
Zenit has problems on all fronts this season, but to a lesser extent this concerns the Premier League, where the team of Sergei Semak was finally able to return to the first line. The comeback came out quite unexpected. The Russian champion lost points in Tula, scoring a goalless draw with Arsenal, but CSKA lost their match at all, whereas Spartak managed to bypass due to additional indicators. It is much more difficult for Zenit in the Champions League. After four rounds they have not won a single victory. For the penultimate match of the group stage the blue-white-blue are the last in the quartet with one point in their assets. However, the victory in today’s meeting will allow Zenit to catch up and possibly even get ahead of Brugge and this is the outcome guests will most likely strive for.
