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 18/03/2021 17:09CET UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OFFICIAL SPONSORS Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Squad list 7 Match officials 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 14 Competition facts 16 Team facts 17 Legend 19 1 SS Lazio - FC Zenit Tuesday 24 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Erokhin 32; Caicedo 04/11/2020 GS FC Zenit - SS Lazio 1-1 St Petersburg 82 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 FC Zenit 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 SS Lazio - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 22/04/1999 SF SS Lazio - FC Lokomotiv Moskva Rome agg: 1-1 ag Janashia 60; Bokšić 08/04/1999 SF FC Lokomotiv Moskva - SS Lazio 1-1 Moscow 77 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Casiraghi 5, Mancini 04/11/1997 R2 SS Lazio - SC Rotor Volgograd Rome agg: 3-0 34, Signori 89 21/10/1997 R2 SC Rotor Volgograd - SS Lazio 0-0 Volgograd FC Zenit - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 19/03/2015 R16 Torino FC - FC Zenit Turin Glik 90 agg: 1-2 12/03/2015 R16 FC Zenit - Torino FC 2-0 St Petersburg Witsel 38, Criscito 53 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 04/12/2012 GS AC Milan - FC Zenit 0-1 Milan Danny 35 Hulk 45+2, Shirokov 49; Emanuelson 13, 03/10/2012 GS FC Zenit - AC Milan 2-3 St Petersburg El Shaarawy 16, Hubočan 75 (og) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 19/03/2009 R16 FC Zenit - Udinese Calcio St Petersburg Tymoshchuk 34 agg: 1-2 Quagliarella 85, Di 12/03/2009 R16 Udinese Calcio - FC Zenit 2-0 Udine Natale 88 (P) 2 SS Lazio - FC Zenit Tuesday 24 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/11/2008 GS FC Zenit - Juventus 0-0 St Petersburg 17/09/2008 GS Juventus - FC Zenit 1-0 Turin Del Piero 76 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Fontolan 38, Cipriani 2-2 30/09/1999 R1 Bologna FC - FC Zenit Bologna 76; Panov 34, agg: 5-2 Kondrashov 89 Ventola 39, Signori 16/09/1999 R1 FC Zenit - Bologna FC 0-3 St Petersburg 68, 90 (P) Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SS Lazio 2 1 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 4 0 5 2 FC Zenit 6 2 2 2 5 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 11 3 3 5 9 13 3 SS Lazio - FC Zenit Tuesday 24 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome Match background 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 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 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. • Matchday 3 made it three wins in Zenit's last six matches against Italian clubs (D1 L2), with the first five meetings 4 SS Lazio - FC Zenit Tuesday 24 November 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadio Olimpico, Rome 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 Russia: 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 & Dejan Lovren (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 Sergei Semak, and went through despite a 3-1 second-leg loss in England. • Liverpool, with Reina in goal, beat Yuri Zhirkov's CSKA Moskva 3-1 after extra time in the 2005 UEFA Super Cup in Monaco. • Vyacheslav Karavaev scored his first goal for Russia on 3 September in a UEFA Nations League match against Serbia. Artem Dzyuba 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).