They are strong in St Petersburg

Zenit had an 1-1 draw in Copenhagen's home in the first game of Europa League group stage. They didn't have a good performance even though they scored first just before the end of the halftime.In the second half, Denmark's team were superior and they could have scored more than one goal to make the total overturn. Although on Sunday they were defeated 1-0 in Anzhi's home, in a game for the Premier League of Russia, they are still on top of the table at +3 from Krasnodar. Injured midfielder Christian Noboa misses tonight's match.

On the other hand, Slavia Prague registered an important win (1-0) in their first game agaist Bordeaux. Zmrhal was the scorer of the sole goal we watched in the match, while Czechs created chances to score again. In Czech Liga they were defeated 2-1 in Banik Ostrava's home, despite the fact that their opponent had 10 men on the picth from the first quarter of the game. Now they are on top of the table, along with Viktoria Plzen. The attackers S.Tecl, M.Mesanovic, P.Olayinka and M.Skoda, as well as midfielder, J.Sykora won't play in tonight's game because of their injuries.

Zenit are superior in quality for sure and they will take advantage of their home to gain their first win in a quite competitive group. Slavia Prague won't have almost all their attackers on their squad and it's very difficult for them to get a positive result out of this home, where Zenit has registered 26 wins in their 31 most recent 31 for the Europa League. I am expecting an easy home win here.