Club Brugge vs Zenit UEFA Champions League Match Preview or Key Statistics ⌚️
Having lost their first competitive meeting with Zenit St Petersburg in September 1987, Club Brugge have since won both of their last two against them, including their only such home meeting in the 1987-88 UEFA Cup first round second leg (5-0).
Excluding qualifiers, Zenit St Petersburg have lost each of their last three away games at Belgian opposition in major European competition, losing twice to Anderlecht (November 2012 and February 2017) and once to Gent (December 2015).
In their 2-1 win over Zenit St Petersburg in October, Club Brugge scored their latest ever UEFA Champions League goal courtesy of Charles De Ketelaere’s winner timed at 92:50. De Ketelaere (19y 224d) also became the Belgian side’s youngest ever score in the competition with that strike.
Club Brugge have only won home and away group stage games against the same opponent twice before (1992-93 vs CSKA Moscow and 2005-06 vs SK Rapid Wien), winning the reverse fixture against Zenit 1-2 on MD1.
Club Brugge are winless in their last 12 UEFA Champions League home games (D5 L7) – only FCSB (13 between 1996-current) have had a longer run without a win at home in the competition.
Zenit have lost each of their last four UEFA Champions League away games, and are winless in seven on the road in the competition (D1 L6) since beating Lyon 0-2 in November 2015.
If Zenit fail to win, they will finish bottom of their UEFA Champions League group for the second consecutive season – they hadn’t finished last in their group in any of their six previous campaigns in the competition.
Zenit have never lost in seven previous games played on MD5 of the UEFA Champions League group stages (W3 D4) Рonly Deportivo de La Coru̱a have played more games on a specific group stage matchday without ever losing (8 on MD1, including second group phase games).
Since the start of last season, Emmanuel Dennis has been involved in four of Club Brugge’s seven UEFA Champions League goals (57%), scoring three and assisting another.
Zenit’s Artem Dzyuba has been involved in 13 goals in his last 18 UEFA Champions League appearances (9 goals, 4 assists). In the history of the European Cup/Champions League, only one Russian player has reached double figures for goals (Sergei Yuran, 13).
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