Zenit vs Club Brugge UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics ⚽️
This is the first European encounter between Zen it and Club Brugge since first round of the 1987/88 UEFA Cup -both sides registered a home win over the two legs, with Brugge winning 5-2 on aggregate.
Zenit's four previous UEFA Champions League matches against Belgian opponents have seen a home win in each game -against Anderlecht in 2012/13 and KAA Gent in 2015/16, with all games coming in the group stage.
Club Brugge haven't faced Russian opposition in the UEFA Champions League since 2002/03 in the first group stage, when they failed to score in both matches against Lokomotiv Moscow (0-0 at home, 0-2 away).
Zenit have won six of their last seven home UEFA Champions League group stage matches (L 1) and have only lost two of their last 14 at the Gazprom Arena in the group stages (W7 D5).
Club Brugge are participating in their 8th UEFA Champions League campaign -they are yet to progress beyond the group stage, with no team playing in more group stages without progressing in any (also seven for Dinamo Zagreb and FCSB).
Zenit have alternated between qualifying from the group stage and being eliminated at this stage in their previous seven UEFA Champions League appearances -they finished bottom in 2019/20 and went out.
Club Brugge have won just one of their last 20 UEFA Champions League matches (D7 L 12), a 4-0 away victory at Monaco in November 2018.
Artem Dzyuba has been directly involved in 11 goals in his 12 UEFA Champions League group stage matches with Zenit (8 goals, 3 assists), scoring in both games against Belgium opposition in that run, both against KAA Gent in 2015/16.
Among the 51 teams to have featured in at least 40 UEFA Champions League matches, only FCSB (9.5%), Dinamo Zagreb (11.9%) and RSC Anderlecht (16.7%) have a lower win percentage than Club Brugge (19%), who have won just eight of 42 matches.
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Emmanuel Dennis had more shots (1 6) and more shots on target (6) than any other Club Brugge player in the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League, as well as being involved in three goals (2 goals, 1 assists) no other Brugge player was involved in more than one.
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