Zenit 2-1 Vardar: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017

Result

Zenit 2-1 Vardar

Europa League · Thursday 23 November 2017, 18:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Zenit · Vardar · Europa League predictions

Zenit 2-1 Vardar: match report

Zenit won against Vardar 2-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 23 November 2017. The half-time score was 2-0.

Dmitri Poloz opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Zenit's goals came from Dmitri Poloz (16') and Emiliano Rigoni (43'). Vardar scored through Dejan Blazevski (90+3').

Discipline: Zenit received 1 yellow card; Vardar received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Zenit were 8th on 16 points from 8 and Vardar 81st on 6 points from 6. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Zenit lined up in a 4-4-2 and Vardar in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Juan Felipe of Vardar (8.7), ahead of Dmitri Poloz (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Zenit win, 0 draws and 0 for Vardar.

Going into the match Zenit's last five read D-W-W-W-W and Vardar's L-L-L-L-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Dmitri PolozZenit · 1-0
  • 27'Missed penalty · Artem DzyubaZenit
  • 43'Goal · Emiliano RigoniZenit · 2-0
  • 54'Yellow card · B. DemiriVardar
  • 71'Yellow card · Denis TerentjevZenit
  • 77'Yellow card · H. HambardzumyanVardar
  • 90+3'Goal · Dejan BlazevskiVardar · 2-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Zenit 1, draws 0, Vardar 0.

Team news

Zenit line-up (4-4-2)

Yuriy Lodygin, Denis Terentjev, Miha Mevlja, Emanuel Mammana, Yury Zhirkov, Emiliano Rigoni, Christian Fernando Noboa Tello, Aleksandr Erokhin, Oleg Shatov, Dmitri Poloz, Artem Dzyuba

Vardar line-up (4-4-2)

Filip Gacevski, Hovhannes Hambardzumyan, Boban Grncharov, Yevhenii Novak, Besir Demiri, Tigran Barseghyan, Boban Nikolov, Vanja Marković, Jaba Jigauri, Juan Felipe, Ytalo