● St. Petersburg gets into the new season as defending champions with their new imprinted golden star on their shirt while visitors have higher expectations than last year’s fourth place.
● Couple of chances from Hulk, Dzyuba and a missed header from Axel fail to give the lead to Zenit
● Kokorin strikes at the 28′ minute with a beautiful shot from within the box; 1-0 to Dynamo
● Answer from Zenit comes 15 minutes later, Dzuba wins the penalty and a red card for already booked Hubocan, Hulk converts levelling things to half-time.
● Witsel’s bike kick impressively blocked by Gabulov at the 48′!
● Ten man Dynamo having a hard time to defend against Zenit’s hammering!
● Inevitable for Moscow, Shatov puts the champions in driver’s seat from inside the box 2-1 (67′)
● Gabulov keeps his team still in the game with some top class blocks but his teammates cannot tie things up ending up with their first defeat in 2015/16.
The Blue-White-Sky blues start on the right foot and gain their first three points against a title rival. Next game away against FC Ural in one week.
