Zenit Petersburg take on the visitors Bordeaux at the Saint Petersburg Stadium in the Round 3 of the UEFA Europa League Group C. The match will be played in Saint Petersburg on Thursday, October 25th.
Zenit Peterburg have been lucky all the way through the 2018/2019 UEFA Europa League tournament. Their luck started from the qualification rounds. First of all, the Lvi created a miracle in the third qualification round by beating Dinamo Minsk in the second leg game with a 8-1 score after losing to the Belarusians in the first leg fixture with a 0-4 score. Then, the team of Sergei Semak struggled a little bit in the qualification play-offs against Molde but went through them in the end (1-2, 3-1). In their two starting matches of the UEFA Europa League Group C the Russians looked unconfident, they barely drew against Copenhagen with a 1-1 score on the away field and barely beat Slavia Prague with a 1-0 score in front of their home crowd. It`s worth noting that the Blue-White-Sky Blues have been getting their luck recently mostly because of their fantastic goalkeeper Andrey Lunyov. In their last three matches Zenit Petersburg lost to Dynamo Moscow with a 0-1 score, beat Krasnodar with a 2-1 score and Slavia Prague with a 1-0 score in their UEFA Europa League Group C fixture. The Zenitchiki have also had a 1/16-finals fixture of the Russian Cup recently where they have beaten Volgar-Astrakhan with a 4-0 score.
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Bordeaux looked pretty solid in the UEFA Europa League qualification rounds. They managed to go through several of them before the start of the group stage. However, Les Girondins have been looking quite poorly so far in the Group C losing to Slavia Prague with a 0-1 score and to Copenhagen with a 1-2 score. In their last three matches overall Bordeaux lost to Montpellier with a 0-2 score, beat Nantes with a 3-0 score and lost to Copenhagen with a 1-2 score.
Bordeaux are super motivated to get the victory in their upcoming fixture against Zenit Petersburg in order to improve their table position in the Group C. They want to represent their country desperately in the play-offs of the 2018/2019 UEFA Europa League. Thereby Les Girondins should score at least once on Thursday. Furthermore, Zenit Petersburg have been playing poorly in the defense anyway recently. For example, they were really lucky to keep their goal safe in their Round 2 fixture against Slavia Prague. The team of Ricardo Gomes should score some goals in the upcoming game.
Prediction for the match: Bordeaux to score over 0.5 goals.
