UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadio Olimpico - Rome Tuesday 24 November 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) SS Lazio Group F - Matchday 4 FC Zenit Last updated 23/11/2020 03:35CET

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Lazio will attempt to give their Group F campaign fresh impetus as they welcome a Zenit team who are bottom of the section at the halfway stage. • Aleksandr Erokhin's first-half goal looked set to give Zenit a first win in this season's UEFA Champions League in their first ever fixture against Lazio on Matchday 3, but substitute Felipe Caicedo levelled with eight minutes remaining. • While that was Zenit's first point in this season's competition, unbeaten Lazio are on five although they were overtaken by Borussia Dortmund last time out. The Italian club are now second, one point behind Dortmund and one ahead of Club Brugge. Form guide Lazio • Having opened their campaign with a 3-1 home win against Dortmund, Lazio have subsquently drawn 1-1 at both Club Brugge and Zenit. • This is Lazio's sixth UEFA Champions League campaign. On their most recent appearance, in 2007/08, they finished fourth in their section having picked up only five points from six games. Their previous appearances in the competition all came between 1999 and 2004. • Lazio's record in the initial group stage is now W13 D9 L11. • The Matchday 1 win against Dortmund was only Lazio's second in their last 14 UEFA Champions League matches, group stage to final (D6 L6). • Before their first Group F game, Lazio's sole UEFA Champions League tie since 2007 had been a play-off defeat by Bayer Leverkusen in 2015/16 (1-0 h, 0-3 a). • The Rome club's most successful European Cup campaign came in 1999/2000, when they reached the quarter- finals before losing to Valencia (2-5 a, 1-0 h). • The Biancocelesti took part in the UEFA Europa League group stage in 2019/20, winning two of their fixtures but losing the other four to finish third in the standings behind Celtic and CFR Cluj. • Simone Inzaghi's side – who qualified for the group stage by finishing fourth in Serie A in 2019/20 – have lost eight of their last 13 European matches (W3 D2). • Matchday 2 marked Lazio's first draw in 19 European games, since they were held 2-2 by Dynamo Kyiv in Rome in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg in March 2018. • Lazio are unbeaten in their five previous matches against Russian clubs, although four of those ended all square. The exception was a 3-0 win against Rotor Volgograd in Rome in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup second round second leg, confirming an aggregate success by the same score. • Lazio also came out on top in their most recent meeting with Russian opponents before this season, beating Lokomotiv Moskva on away goals in the semi-final of their victorious 1998/99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup campaign (1-1 a, 0-0 h). Zenit • Beaten 2-1 at home by Club Brugge on the opening night, Zenit also lost at Dortmund (0-2) before getting their first point on the board against Lazio. • Zenit claimed their seventh USSR/Russian league title in 2019/20, and their second in a row; their last six triumphs have all come from 2007 onwards. They also added the to complete the club's second domestic double. • This is the St Petersburg outfit's eighth UEFA Champions League group campaign; they reached the round of 16 in 2011/12, 2013/14 and 2015/16 but have never progressed further. • In 2019/20, Zenit finished fourth in their section, behind RB Leipzig, Lyon and Benfica despite picking up seven points from their six matches. It was their earliest European exit since 2009/10, when they were eliminated in the UEFA Europa League play-offs. • The St Petersburg team have won only three of their last 14 European matches (D2 L9). • Zenit have also recorded only two victories in their last 12 UEFA Champions League games (D2 L8). • Zenit lost 1-0 on their last trip to Italy, at Torino in the 2014/15 UEFA Europa League round of 16 second leg, although they won that tie 2-1 on aggregate.

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• Matchday 3 made it three wins in Zenit's last six matches against Italian clubs (D1 L2), with the first five meetings having brought two draws and three defeats. Their sole success in their five games in Italy (D1 L3) is a 1-0 win at AC Milan on Matchday 6 of the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League. Links and trivia • Has played in : Felipe Caicedo (Lokomotiv Moskva 2011–14) • Caicedo scored against Zenit in Lokomotiv's 4-2 home league win in September 2010. • Has played in Italy: Douglas Santos (Udinese 2013/14) • Have played together: Lucas Leiva & (Liverpool 2014–17) • Pepe Reina's Liverpool lost to Zenit on away goals in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League round of 32. Zenit won 2-0 at home, the second goal scored by current coach , and went through despite a 3-1 second-leg loss in England. • Liverpool, with Reina in goal, beat 's CSKA Moskva 3-1 after extra time in the 2005 UEFA in Monaco. • Vyacheslav Karavaev scored his first goal for Russia on 3 September in a UEFA Nations League match against Serbia. struck twice in a 3-1 victory in which Sergej Milinković-Savić played for the visitors. • Marco Parolo made his debut for Italy in March 2011 as a late substitute in a 2-0 friendly win against Yaroslav Rakits'kyy's Ukraine. Latest news Lazio • Lazio stretched their unbeaten run in all competitions to seven matches (W4 D3) on Saturday with a 2-0 win at Crotone. • Ciro Immobile scored his 107th Serie A goal for Lazio on Saturday, going level with Giuseppe Signori in joint second place in the club's all-time rankings, behind only Silvio Piola (143 goals). • Joaquín Correa, who scored nine Serie A goals in 2019/20, opened his account for the current campaign with the second at Crotone. • After scoring an added-time winner against Torino on 1 November (4-3) and the late equaliser at Zenit on Matchday 3, Felipe Caceido struck in added time again to earn a 1-1 draw against Juventus on 8 November. • That was Lazio's third successive added-time goal in Serie A, following Immobile and Caceido's strikes against Torino. • Lazio have only failed to score once this season, a 3-0 defeat at Sampdoria on 17 October. • The Biancocelesti, however, have only kept two clean sheets this season, Saturday's being their first since the 2-0 win at Cagliari on 26 September. The win at Crotone ended a nine-game run in all competitions without one. • Before Saturday, Immobile had not played since 1 November due to illness, missing Italy's recent internationals. He has scored once on each of his last four Lazio appearances. • Goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha has missed the last three Lazio games and international duty with Albania due to illness. • Sergej Milinković-Savić played in Serbia's UEFA EURO 2020 play-off defeat by Scotland on 12 November and was a late substitute in the 1-1 UEFA Nations League draw in Hungary three days later but has not played since due to illness. • A thigh injury has kept Gonzalo Escalante on the sidelines since 24 October. • Francesco Acerbi played 90 minutes in each fixture as Italy beat Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina, both 2-0, in the UEFA Nations League. • Vedat Muriqi scored in Kosovo's 2-1 friendly defeat against Albania on 11 November, and in the 2-1 defeat against Slovakia in the UEFA Nations League four days later, taking his tally to ten international goals and thus becoming the first player from his country to reach double figures. • Immobile signed a new contract until 2025 on 31 August. Zenit

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• Yuri Zhirkov made his 100th appearance in UEFA club competition on Matchday 3. • Zenit were held 2-2 at Akhmat Grozny on Saturday, a game in which they led twice. They had won their previous two games, beating Khimki 2-0 away on 1 November and fellow UEFA Champions League contenders 3-1 in St Petersburg a week later. • Zenit's six-game unbeaten domestic run (W3 D3) was ended on 24 October as they went down 2-1 at home to Rubin despite taking a first-half lead through Aleksandr Erokhin. That was one of only two defeats in Zenit's last 34 Russian Premier League games (W24 D8). • Zenit beat Lokomotiv Moskva 2-1 in the Russian Super Cup on 7 August. • Zhirkov won his 100th cap for Russia in a 5-0 UEFA Nations League loss in Serbia on 18 November. • Daler Kuzyaev scored one goal and set up the other in Russia's 3-2 UEFA Nations League defeat away to Turkey on 15 November. He was also on target for Zenit on Saturday and has three goals in his last five appearances for club and country – as many as in his previous 49 matches. • came on as a late substitute on Saturday having been sidelined by a knee injury since early October. • has not played since Matchday 1 due to injury, and is following an individual training programme. • Sebastián Driussi, who has been out since Matchday 2 due to injury, is also training separately.

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