Zenit v Celtic background
Zenit will have to reprise their well-developed home form in this foe if they are to redeem from a 1-0 better during Celtic, who revisit St Petersburg behest to strech a turn of 16 for a initial time.
• Celtic compulsory usually 3 points to take third place in their UEFA Champions League territory given Zenit chalked adult 16, scoring 17 goals, in commanding UEFA Europa League Group L brazen of associate qualifiers Real Sociedad.
Previous meetings
• Celtic’s widespread first-leg arrangement in Glasgow opposite a Zenit side personification outward their domestic deteriorate yielded usually one goal – scored 12 mins from time by midfielder Callum McGregor. It brought a Scottish bar their initial European home win in a open for 14 years.
• Zenit’s unique knowledge of Scottish antithesis before to a initial leg came on arguably a biggest night in a St Petersburg club’s story – when they degraded Celtic’s arch-rivals Rangers 2-0 in a 2007/08 UEFA Cup final in Manchester.
• Celtic have a certain change in their 7 matches opposite Russian antithesis (W4 D2 L1). Their record in Russia is equally considerable (W2 D1 L0), with victories in any of their final dual visits – 2-0 during Dinamo Moskva in a 2009/10 UEFA Champions League third subordinate turn (to retreat a 1-0 better during home) and 3-2 during Spartak Moskva in a 2012/13 UEFA Champions League organisation stage.
Form guide
• Zenit have never mislaid during home in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final, winning 16 of their 17 matches in St Petersburg, a usually difference a 2-2 pull opposite Sevilla in a 2014/15 quarter-finals. They have won 11 of their final 13 home games in European competition, losing two.
• Zenit conceded one idea in any of their 3 home victories during this season’s organisation stage.
• Celtic have never won divided from home in a UEFA Europa League, organisation theatre to final (D8 L5).
• The Glasgow club’s 3-0 win during Anderlecht in this season’s UEFA Champions League organisation theatre is their usually European divided win outward a subordinate proviso in 19 matches (D6 L12) – given that 3-2 success during Spartak in 2012/13.
• Celtic mislaid 7-1 during Paris Saint-Germain in their many new divided tie – a second heaviest European better in their story after a 7-0 detriment during Barcelona on matchday one of a 2016/17 UEFA Champions League.
• UEFA Cup runners-up to Porto in 2002/03 and quarter-finalists a following season, a Glasgow bar have done it into a UEFA Europa League knockout proviso usually once before, losing 4-3 on sum (3-3 home, 0-1 away) to Internazionale in 2014/15.
• Zenit are personification prime European football for a eighth year in a row. This is a fifth deteriorate during that method in that they have participated in a UEFA Europa League turn of 32.
• The Russian side were successful during this theatre of a foe on any of their initial 3 sorties – opposite Young Boys in 2010/11, Liverpool in 2012/13 and PSV Eindhoven in 2014/15 – though mislaid their many new turn of 32 tie, going out on divided goals to Anderlecht final deteriorate after a 3-3 sum draw.
• Zenit finished third in final season’s Russian joining and reached a UEFA Europa League organisation theatre after overcoming Bnei Yehuda in a third subordinate turn and Utrecht in a play-offs – both on 2-1 sum margins, a latter after additional time.
• Celtic won a Scottish domestic three-way final deteriorate – for a fourth time in their story – though losing a match, an rare achievement. They came by 3 subordinate ties to strech a UEFA Champions League organisation theatre for a second unbroken year, overcoming Linfield, Rosenborg and, in a play-offs, Astana.
• Zenit have mislaid a divided initial leg in UEFA foe 15 times, recuperating during home to win a tie on 5 occasions. When they have mislaid a initial leg on a highway by a 1-0 scoreline, they have left by dual times out of three, many recently in this season’s play-off opposite Utrecht, a second leg of that they won 2-0 after additional time.
• Celtic have triumphed in 32 of a 45 UEFA foe tie in that they won a home initial leg. Their record when winning a initial leg 1-0 during home is a certain one: 7 sum wins to 5 defeats. Furthermore, they have left by on any of a past 5 such occasions, many recently in a third subordinate turn of a 2015/16 UEFA Champions League opposite Qarabağ (0-0 away). On 4 of a 5 occasions that they were incompetent to urge that 1-0 first-leg lead, they unsuccessful to measure in a return.
UEFA Europa League patrol changes
• Zenit
In: Egor Baburin, Ilya Skrobotov, Anton Zabolotni
Out: Artem Dzyuba, Maksim Karpov, Ivan Novoseltsev, Maksim Rudakov
• Celtic
In: Scott Bain, Jack Hendry, Charly Musonda
Out: Kundai Benyu, Jonathan Hayes, Conor Hazard, Liam Henderson, Regan Hendry, Mark Hill, Jamie McCart, Erik Sviatchenko
Links and trivia
• Aleksandr Kokorin scored a winning idea for Dinamo Moskva divided to Celtic in a 2009/10 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round.
• When Celtic final seemed in a UEFA Europa League turn of 32, a manager of a side that kick them, Internazionale, was stream Zenit trainer Roberto Mancini.
• Celtic’s Brendan Rodgers was on a losing side when his Liverpool group went out to Zenit in a 2012/13 turn of 32.
• Celtic’s Dedryck Boyata (2009–13) and Scott Sinclair (2013) played underneath Mancini during Manchester City.
• Sinclair and Zenit’s Branislav Ivanović were team-mates during Chelsea between 2008 and 2010, nonetheless a former had loan spells during Birmingham and Wigan before vacating for a permanent pierce to Swansea.
• Eboué Kouassi done 9 Russian joining appearances for FC Krasnodar in 2016/17.
• Kolo Touré, now on Celtic’s coaching staff, was partial of a Manchester City patrol that won a Premier League pretension in 2011/12 underneath Mancini.
Penalty shoot-outs
• Zenit have nonetheless to underline in a UEFA chastisement shoot-out.
• Celtic’s record in UEFA chastisement shoot-outs is W1 L2:
4-5 v Internazionale, 1971/72 European Champion Clubs’ Cup semi-final
4-5 v Valencia, 2001/02 UEFA Cup third round
4-3 v Spartak Moskva, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League third subordinate round
The coaches
• Former Italy general brazen Roberto Mancini took assign of Zenit in Jun 2017. A Serie A and European Cup Winners’ Cup leader as a actor with both Sampdoria and Lazio, he coached Internazionale and Manchester City to domestic joining championships, and some-more recently claimed a Turkish Cup delight with Galatasaray. He has won 12 domestic cups in sum as a actor and manager.
• Celtic’s Northern Irish trainer Brendan Rodgers late early as a actor though done his name in government during Swansea, steering a Welsh bar into England’s tip moody before withdrawal for Liverpool in Jun 2012. He led a Reds to a Premier League runners-up mark in 2013/14 though was discharged in Oct 2015, resurfacing during Celtic, where he won a Scottish three-way with an undefeated record in his initial season.