Lille, as the champion of France, made their way to the Champions League and Josselin Gourvennec’s team is doing their best to live up to this status. The Dogi started with a goalless draw in the home match with Wolfsburg, having managed to create a lot of chances, but failed to realize them at the same time. The French champion played much weaker against Salzburg in the next meeting, losing 1:2 both in score and in game. The calendar brought Lille and Sevilla together in a two-legged confrontation in the third and fourth rounds. It seemed that the French had a minimum chance of points. However, at home, the Dogi defended a goalless draw and away sensationally beat the Nervion team with a score of 2:1, thus managing to move up to second place in the table, but the third Wolfsburg is only behind in terms of additional indicators.
Zenit opened the Champions League group stage in the capital of England, where they played very well against the current winner of the tournament. The very next stage brought success in the game with today’s opponent, after which there were two defeats in a row from Juventus, which was the first to get a ticket to the spring part of this tournament. It is impossible not to note the performance indicators of the Russian team, which scored and conceded six times. In the Russian championship the “blue-white-blue” occupy the first position in the standings after 15 rounds. On the account of Sergei Semak’s charges there are ten wins and three draws, which corresponds to 33 points, which is four more than the second Dynamo. The RPL champion’s attack line plays very confidently, scoring 39 times. Following the draw with Ural (0:0), St. Petersburg left no chances at home for Nizhny Novgorod (5:1). Today Kuzyaev, Kritsyuk and Claudinho, who are isolated with coronavirus, will not be able to take part in the game.
