📏 Form Guide

FC Rostov

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FC Rostov will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-3 Premier League triumph vs Akron Tolyatti.

In that game, FC Rostov managed 41% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For FC Rostov, the goalscorers were Kirill Shchetinin (21'), Mohammad Mohebi (39'), Oumar Sako (42' Own goal) and Viktor Melekhin (45'). Akron Tolyatti got 16 shots at goal with 10 of them on target.

It has been seldom in recent times where FC Rostov have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, FC Rostov have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 6 goals in the process.

Looking at their past form shows that FC Rostov:

• have left without a victory over Zenit St Petersburg in their last 13 league matches. They'll surely be desperate to put an end to that run.
• have not won at home in their last 5 league games. Things will have to change soon.

Zenit St Petersburg

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Zenit St Petersburg head into the meeting following on from a 2-1 Premier League win vs Sochi in their previous outing.

In that match, Zenit St Petersburg had 67% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Zenit St Petersburg, goals were scored by Henrique (59') and Aleksandr Erokhin (84'). For their opponents, Sochi got 7 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Zakhar Fedorov (31') was the scorer for Sochi.

A series of dependable showings by the Zenit St Petersburg defence has seen the number of goals they’ve conceded standing at 3 from their previous 6 clashes combined. In that period, the number of goals that they have scored themselves amounts to 9. That trend might not be continued into this match, though.

Analysis of their past results shows that Zenit St Petersburg:

• haven't been beaten by FC Rostov in games played away from home for the previous 6 matches in the league. A solid away record against them.
• are unbeaten in their previous 4 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of past results between these clubs stretching back to 16/04/2023 tells us that these encounters have not been good ones for FC Rostov. They have not managed to register any wins at all whereas Zenit St Petersburg have managed to find a way, beating them in 67 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

A total of 14 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 3 of them for Rostov and 11 for Sine-Belo-Golubye. The average goals per game has been 2.33.

The last league game featuring the two was Premier League match day 1 on 20/07/2025 when it finished Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 FC Rostov.

That day, Zenit St Petersburg had 71% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The goals were scored by Mateo Cassierra (67') and Andrei Mostovoy (79').

On the other side, FC Rostov got 6 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Ivan Komarov (22') scored.

The match was refereed by Rafael Shafeev.

🗞️ Team News: FC Rostov

We think that FC Rostov will possibly use the 5-3-2 formation this time with Rustam Yatimov, Andrey Langovich, Viktor Melekhin, Dmitriy Chistyakov, Oumar Sako, Ilya Vakhania, Ivan Komarov, Kirill Shchetinin, Aleksey Mironov, Timur Suleymanov and Mohammad Mohebi.

📰 Team News: Zenit St Petersburg

There’s a good chance that Sine-Belo-Golubye might play in a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Denis Adamov, Gustavo Mantuan, Igor Diveev, Nino, Douglas Santos, Wilmar Barrios, Wendel, Luiz Henrique, Maksim Glushenkov, Pedro and Aleksandr Sobolev.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that FC Rostov are certainly able to put a goal past this Zenit St Petersburg team, however a single goal likely won’t be enough.

We’ve gone for a 1-2 winning score for Zenit St Petersburg when the referee blows the final whistle. Hopefully this is a good one.

Victor Martins, 23:22 15/05/2026