UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2014/15 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 1-2) Stadion Petrovskiy - St Petersburg Thursday 23 April 2015 FC Zenit 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Sevilla FC Quarter-finals, Second leg Last updated 23/07/2015 12:47CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 6 Squad list 8 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 19 Legend 21 1 FC Zenit - Sevilla FC Thursday 23 April 2015 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bacca 73, Suárez 88; 16/04/2015 QF Sevilla FC - FC Zenit 2-1 Seville Ryazantsev 29 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 06/04/2006 QF FC Zenit - Sevilla FC St Petersburg Hyun 51; Kepa 64 agg: 2-5 Saviola 14, 80, Martí 30/03/2006 QF Sevilla FC - FC Zenit 4-1 Seville 54 (P), Adriano 90+2; Kerzhakov 45 Kerzhakov 11, 88; 24/11/2005 GS FC Zenit - Sevilla FC 2-1 St Petersburg Saviola 90+3 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Arshavin 35; Júlio 25/11/2004 GS FC Zenit - Sevilla FC 1-1 St Petersburg Baptista 71 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 3 1 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 2 6 9 Sevilla FC 2 2 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 5 2 2 1 9 6 FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Alderweireld 74 (og); 26/11/2013 GS FC Zenit - Club Atlético de Madrid 1-1 St Petersburg Adrián 53 Miranda 40, Arda Club Atlético de Madrid - FC 18/09/2013 GS 3-1 Madrid Turan 64, Baptistão Zenit 80; Hulk 58 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Danny 49, Fayzulin 21/11/2012 GS FC Zenit - Málaga CF 2-2 St Petersburg 87; Buonanotte 8, Seba 9 18/09/2012 GS Málaga CF - FC Zenit 3-0 Malaga Isco 3, 76, Saviola 13 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Raúl González 25, 57, 10/12/2008 GS Real Madrid CF - FC Zenit 3-0 Madrid Robben 50 2 FC Zenit - Sevilla FC Thursday 23 April 2015 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg UEFA Champions League Danny 25; Hubočan 4 30/09/2008 GS FC Zenit - Real Madrid CF 1-2 St Petersburg (og), Van Nistelrooy 31 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 2-1 Franco 75, Tomasson 21/02/2008 R3 Villarreal CF - FC Zenit Villarreal agg: 2-2 ag 90; Pogrebnyak 31 13/02/2008 R3 FC Zenit - Villarreal CF 1-0 St Petersburg Pogrebnyak 63 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Popovich 30, 63; 2-2 22/08/2000 F FC Zenit - RC Celta de Vigo St Petersburg Karpin 83, McCarthy agg: 3-4 89 Karpin 22, Juanfran 08/08/2000 F RC Celta de Vigo - FC Zenit 2-1 Vigo 90; Igonine 3 Sevilla FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-2 Perotti 41; Necid 39, 16/03/2010 R16 Sevilla FC - PFC CSKA Moskva Seville agg: 2-3 Honda 55 González 66; 24/02/2010 R16 PFC CSKA Moskva - Sevilla FC 1-1 Moscow Negredo 25 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sevilla FC - FC Lokomotiv 2-0 Maresca 34, Puerta 23/02/2006 R3 Seville Moskva agg: 3-0 90 FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Sevilla 15/02/2006 R3 0-1 Moscow Jordi 75 FC UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bengoechea 25, 2-1 07/11/1990 R2 Sevilla FC - FC Torpedo Moskva Seville Ramon 62; Savichev agg: 3-4 10 Tishkov 58, Zhukov 24/10/1990 R2 FC Torpedo Moskva - Sevilla FC 3-1 Moscow 81 (P), Shirinbekov 86; Polster 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 7 2 4 1 6 0 0 6 2 0 1 1 15 2 5 8 16 29 Sevilla FC 5 4 0 1 6 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 11 5 3 3 17 13 3 FC Zenit - Sevilla FC Thursday 23 April 2015 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Match background FC Zenit can take comfort from a good run of recent European home results as they come into their UEFA Europa League quarter-final decider against holders Sevilla FC trailing 2-1. Previous meetings • Sevilla's 2-1 win in the first leg was the sides' fifth European meeting: Zenit's record in those games is now W1 D2 L2. Three of those encounters came during Sevilla's triumphant 2005/06 UEFA Cup campaign, when Juande Ramos's lost 2-1 away to Vlastimil Petržela's Zenit in the group stage then beat the Russian side 5-2 on aggregate in the quarter-finals. • The sides for their last encounter in Russia, on 6 April 2006 – a 1-1 draw in which Zenit's Ivica Križanac and Sevilla's Kepa were sent off – were: Zenit: Malafeev*, Radimov, Škrtel, Križanac, Mareš, Šírl (Trifonov 78), Kerzhakov*, Hyun (Kozhanov 58), Poškus, Vlasov, Anyukov. Sevilla: Palop, Navarro*, Castedo, Daniel Alves, Escudé, Luís Fabiano (Kepa 60), Navas, Adriano (Sales 57), Martí, Ocio, Maresca (Renato 70). *registered to play in this season's quarter-finals Form guide • Zenit have won their last three European home games without conceding; Sevilla have won their last two on the road, scoring three goals in each. • Zenit have won only twice in 15 encounters with Spanish sides, and are without a victory in their last eight games against Liga opponents. • Sevilla have lifted this trophy every time they have made it to the last eight. Zenit also won the competition the last time they reached this stage, in 2007/08. Trivia and links • Sevilla (2006, 2007, 2014) and Zenit (2008) are two of three former UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League winners left in the competition. • Zenit are the only side of the eight that entered the UEFA Europa League round of 32 from this season's UEFA Champions League group stage to have made it this far. • Zenit's all-time top scorer Aleksandr Kerzhakov played for Sevilla from 2007–08. • Sevilla goalkeeper Beto and Zenit forward Hulk were team-mates at FC Porto from 2009–12, winning the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League under current Zenit coach André Villas-Boas. • Zenit boast Spanish talent in the form of midfielder Javi García, while Ezequiel Garay (Real Madrid CF) and José Rondon (UD Las Palmas, Málaga CF) both have Liga experience. • Sevilla coach Unai Emery knows Russian football from his time at FC Spartak Moskva in 2012, while centre-back Nicolás Pareja played for the same side from 2010–13. • Daniel Carriço – who missed the first leg – can become a stand-alone UEFA Europa League record holder in St Petersburg, the Sevilla man having matched Óscar Cardozo's record of 44 appearances in the competition (group stage to final) in the round of 16. • This year's UEFA Europa League final is in Warsaw, and Sevilla's Grzegorz Krychowiak is one of three Polish players who still have a chance of playing in the decider in their home country, along with Łukasz Teodorczyk (FC Dynamo Kyiv) and Oskar Zawada (VfL Wolfsburg). The coaches • Having joined Porto's coaching department in his teens after a debate with the club's then coach Sir Bobby Robson, Zenit's André Villas-Boas assisted José Mourinho and spent a season in charge at A. Académica de Coimbra before winning a Liga, Portuguese Cup and UEFA Europa League treble with Porto in 2010/11. He then coached Chelsea FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC, taking over at Zenit in March 2014. • Sevilla boss since January 2013, one-time midfielder Unai Emery switched from playing to coaching at Lorca Deportiva CF. Having led UD Almería to the top tier, he coached Valencia CF from 2008 to 2012, with his side regular European contenders during that spell. • Emery (Sevilla 2014) and Villas Boas (Porto 2011) are among three coaches in the quarter-finals who have won the UEFA Europa League since the competition took on its current incarnation, along with Napoli's Rafael Benítez 4 FC Zenit - Sevilla FC Thursday 23 April 2015 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg (Chelsea FC 2013). Penalty shoot-outs • Zenit have yet to feature in a penalty shoot-out in UEFA competition. • Sevilla's record in five UEFA competition penalty shoot-outs is W4 L1 (W2 L0 away): 4-3 v PAOK FC (A), 1990/91 UEFA Cup first round 3-1 v RCD Espanyol (N), 2006/07 UEFA Cup final 2-3 v Fenerbahçe SK (H), 2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16 4-3 v Real Betis Balompié (A), 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16 4-2 v SL Benfica (N), 2013/14 UEFA Europa League final 5 FC Zenit - Sevilla FC Thursday 23 April 2015 - 21.05CET (22.05 local time) Match press kit Stadion Petrovskiy, St Petersburg Team facts FC Zenit Formed: 1925 Nickname: Sine-belo-golubye (Blue-White-Sky Blues) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup (1): 2008 • UEFA Super Cup (1): 2008 Domestic honours (latest triumph in brackets) League title: 4 (2012) USSR/Russian Cup: 3 (2010) Ten-year European record (UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League unless otherwise indicated) 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2011/12: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2010/11: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2009/10: play-offs 2008/09: round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage) 2007/08: winners 2006/07: did not compete in UEFA club competition 2005/06: quarter-finals 2004/05: group stage Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 8-0: Zenit v FC Encamp 29/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round second leg • Biggest away win 0-5: FC Encamp v Zenit 15/08/02, UEFA Cup qualifying round first leg • Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Zenit v Bologna FC 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg • Heaviest away defeat 5-0 twice, most recently v VfB Stuttgart 01/11/89, UEFA Cup second round second