Vardar 0-5 Zenit: result and report
Europa League · Thursday 14 September 2017
Result
Vardar 0-5 Zenit
Europa League · Thursday 14 September 2017, 19:05 UTC · half-time 0-3
Vardar 0-5 Zenit: match report
Vardar lost to Zenit 0-5 in the Europa League on Thursday 14 September 2017. The half-time score was 0-3.
A. Kokorin opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Vardar did not score. Zenit scored through A. Kokorin (6'), A. Kokorin (21'), Artem Dzyuba (39'), Branislav Ivanović (66') and Emiliano Rigoni (89').
Discipline: Vardar received 2 yellow cards; Zenit received no yellow cards.
Going into the game Vardar were 54th on 6 points from 2 and Zenit 60th on 6 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Vardar lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Zenit in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Abdelghani Aouamri of Zenit (9.2), ahead of Christian Fernando Noboa Tello (8.9).
Key events
- 6'Goal · A. Kokorin
- 21'Goal · A. Kokorin
- 39'Goal · Artem Dzyuba
- 43'Yellow card · Juan Felipe
- 56'Yellow card · J. Jighauri
- 66'Goal · Branislav Ivanović
- 89'Goal · Emiliano Rigoni
Team news
Vardar line-up (4-2-3-1)
Filip Gacevski, Hovhannes Hambardzumyan, Boban Grncharov, Darko Velkovski, Vladica Brdarovski, Nikola Gligorov, Boban Nikolov, Dejan Blazevski, Juan Felipe, Jaba Jigauri, Tigran Barseghyan
Zenit line-up (4-3-3)
Andrey Lunev, Branislav Ivanović, Emanuel Mammana, Miha Mevlja, Domenico Criscito, Daler Kuzyaev, Matías Kranevitter, Christian Fernando Noboa Tello, Abdelghani Aouamri, Artem Dzyuba, Dmitri Poloz