UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Saint Petersburg Stadium - St Petersburg Tuesday 20 October 2020 FC Zenit 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Club Brugge Group F - Matchday 1 Last updated 16/01/2021 00:32CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 6 Match officials 8 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 12 Competition facts 13 Team facts 14 Legend 16 1 FC Zenit - Club Brugge Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Saint Petersburg Stadium, St Petersburg Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 5-0 Brylle Larsen 20, 38, 30/09/1987 R1 Club Brugge - FC Zenit Bruges agg: 5-2 57, 72, Ceulemans 44 Chukhlov 8, 16/09/1987 R1 FC Zenit - Club Brugge 2-0 St Petersburg Zheludkov 69 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Zenit 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 2 5 Club Brugge 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 5 2 FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Giuliano 24, 78, 3-1 23/02/2017 R32 FC Zenit - RSC Anderlecht St Petersburg Dzyuba 72; Kiese agg: 3-3 ag Thelin 90 16/02/2017 R32 RSC Anderlecht - FC Zenit 2-0 Brussels Acheampong 5, 31 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Depoitre 18, Milicevic 09/12/2015 GS KAA Gent - FC Zenit 2-1 Ghent 78; Dzyuba 65 Dzyuba 35, Shatov 29/09/2015 GS FC Zenit - KAA Gent 2-1 St Petersburg 67; Matton 56 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Rondón 30, Hulk 54 26/08/2014 PO FC Zenit - R. Standard de Liège St Petersburg agg: 4-0 (P), 58 20/08/2014 PO R. Standard de Liège - FC Zenit 0-1 Liege Shatov 16 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/11/2012 GS RSC Anderlecht - FC Zenit 1-0 Brussels Mbokani 17 24/10/2012 GS FC Zenit - RSC Anderlecht 1-0 St Petersburg A. Kerzhakov 72 (P) UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ionov 12, Bukharov 01/12/2010 GS FC Zenit - RSC Anderlecht 3-1 St Petersburg 65, Huszti 88; Kanu 87 Juhász 66; A. 16/09/2010 GS RSC Anderlecht - FC Zenit 1-3 Brussels Kerzhakov 8, 33, 44 2 FC Zenit - Club Brugge Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Saint Petersburg Stadium, St Petersburg UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-1 Onyewu 35; 04/10/2007 R1 R. Standard de Liège - FC Zenit Liege agg: 1-4 Pogrebnyak 79 Arshavin 36, 65, Kim 20/09/2007 R1 FC Zenit - R. Standard de Liège 3-0 St Petersburg Dong-Jin 84 Club Brugge - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Lokomotiv Moskva - Club Júlio César 44, 13/11/2002 GS1 2-0 Moscow Brugge Loskov 90+2 Club Brugge - FC Lokomotiv 24/09/2002 GS1 0-0 Bruges Moskva UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Sergeev 18; PFC CSKA Moskva - Club 07/04/1993 GS 1-2 Berlin Schaessens 43, Brugge Verheyen 83 Club Brugge - PFC CSKA 25/11/1992 GS 1-0 Bruges Amokachi 17 Moskva UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Papin 52; Bubnov 28, Club Brugge - FC Spartak 1-3 06/11/1985 R2 Bruges Rodionov 51, Schalvo Moskva agg: 1-4 65 FC Spartak Moskva - Club 23/10/1985 R2 1-0 Moscow Cherenkov 45 Brugge UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Wellens 31; Rodionov Club Brugge - FC Spartak 1-3 30/09/1981 R1 Bruges 13, Schalvo 42, Moskva agg: 2-6 Gavrilov 48 Schvetsov 7, 63, FC Spartak Moskva - Club 16/09/1981 R1 3-1 Moscow Gavrilov 80; Sørensen Brugge 15 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 7 0 0 7 2 1 4 0 0 0 0 14 9 1 4 23 15 Club Brugge 5 2 1 2 5 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 10 3 1 6 11 15 3 FC Zenit - Club Brugge Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Saint Petersburg Stadium, St Petersburg Match background Having both failed to get out of their respective UEFA Champions League sections in 2019/20, Zenit and Club Brugge will be keen to make a positive start to their latest attempts to reach the round of 16 when they meet in St Petersburg in the first round of Group F fixtures. • While Club Brugge were third in their section last season on three points – courtesy of three draws – Zenit recorded two wins and seven points, but nevertheless finished bottom of their group. Previous meetings • The sides' only fixtures before this season came in the 1987/88 UEFA Cup first round. Zenit were 2-0 winners in the home first leg but Club Brugge wiped that out with a 5-0 victory back in Belgium, Kenneth Brylle Larsen doing most of the damage with four goals. Form guide Zenit • 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 Russian Cup 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 11 European matches (D1 L7). • Zenit have also recorded only two victories in their last nine UEFA Champions League games (D1 L6). • Zenit's last fixtures with a Belgian club came in the 2016/17 UEFA Europa League round of 32, the Russian club bowing out to Anderlecht on away goals having lost 2-0 in Belgium before a 3-1 home success in which they conceded in the 90th minute. • That home win did extend Zenit's perfect record against Belgian visitors in their own stadium – they have won all seven contests, scoring 17 goals and conceding only three. Club Brugge • Club Brugge are in the group stage for the third year in a row, the first time they have achieved that feat; it is their eighth UEFA Champions League group appearance overall. They have never progressed to the knockout rounds. • In 2019/20, the Belgian side finished third behind Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid in Group A, picking up three points (D3 L3). It was the second year running they had finished third in their group. • They went on to lose to Manchester United in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 (1-1 h, 0-5 a). • Club Brugge have won only one of their last 18 fixtures in the UEFA Champions League proper (D6 L11). • Philippe Clement's side claimed Club Brugge's 16th Belgian league title in 2019/20, and third in the last five seasons. • Club Brugge have not played a Russian club in European competition since 2002, when they picked up one point from their two games against Lokomotiv Moskva (0-0 h, 0-2 a) in the UEFA Champions League first group stage. • That loss at Lokomotiv in November 2002 made it four defeats from four matches in Russia for Club Brugge; they have scored only once in those games, conceding eight goals. The Belgian side's only win in an away fixture against a Russian team came in Berlin, where they beat CSKA Moskva 2-1 in the inaugural UEFA Champions League group stage in 1992/93. Links and trivia • Have played together: Dejan Lovren & Simon Mignolet (Liverpool 2014–19) Yaroslav Rakits'kyy & Eduard Sobol (Shakhtar 2013–14) Sebastián Driussi & Éder Balanta (River Plate 2011–16) • Lovren and Mignolet were members of Liverpool's victorious 2018/19 UEFA Champions League squad. • Driussi and Balanta were both in the River side that won the Copa Sudamericana in 2014 and the Copa Libertadores the following year. • International team-mates: Yaroslav Rakits'kyy & Eduard Sobol (Ukraine) 4 FC Zenit - Club Brugge Tuesday 20 October 2020 - 18.55CET (19.55 local time) Match press kit Saint Petersburg Stadium, St Petersburg Wílmar Barrios & Éder Balanta (Colombia) Dejan Lovren & Matej Mitrović (Croatia) • Mignolet conceded three goals in Belgium's 3-3 friendly draw against Russia in March 2017; Zenit's Magomed Ozdoev and Aleksandr Erokhin appeared for the hosts. • Emmanuel Bonaventure scored against Shakhtar for Zorya Luhansk in the Ukrainian Premier League on 2 April 2017; despite Rakits'kyy's red card, the visitors still won 2-1. Latest news Zenit • Summer transfers In: Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), Wendel (Sporting) Out: Branislav Ivanović (West Brom), Igor Smolnikov (Krasnodar), Oleg Shatov (Rubin), Aleksandr Kokorin (Spartak Moskva), Emanuel Mammana (Sochi, loan), Emiliano Rigoni (Elche) • Zenit are on a run of six domestic games without a loss (W3 D3).