In the 78th minute, Jadon Sancho scored from a penalty spot, while Erling Holland scored a goal in addition to the second half, who had previously scored against Zenit in the 2018/19 season, playing for the Norwegian Molde in the Europa League.
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Petersburgers played without the main strikers Malcolm and Serdar Azmun, who were injured, for the same reasons, defenders Niko Schultz, Marcel Schmelzer and Dan Axel I’ll guess. At the heart of the Dortmund team came the Belgian Axel Witsel, who from 2012 to 2016 played for the team from St. Petersburg. Zenit captain Artem Dziuba was replaced at half-time.
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Zenit lost the third match in a row in all tournaments, earlier the Petersburgers lost at home to Rubin in the game of the national championship and to Belgian Brugge in the Champions League match with the same score 1: 2. The last time Petersburgers lost in three or more official games in a row was in the 2018/19 season, when in December they lost to Tula Arsenal (2: 4) and Rubin (1: 2) in the championship of Russia and Prague “Slavia” (0 : 2) in the Europa League group stage game, and lost in the match in February playoffs Europa League to Turkish Fenerbahce (0: 1).
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Zenit and Borussia played their third face-to-face meeting in the Champions League. The teams met in the 1/8 finals of the 2013/14 season, the Petersburgers managed to win in the return away game with a score of 2: 1, but Borussia went on in goal difference, as they won the first match with a score of 4: 2.
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In another meeting of Group F, Club Brugge drew with Italian Lazio at home (1: 1). After two rounds, Lazio is in the lead (4 points), Brugge (4) is second, Borussia (3) is in third, Zenit is in fourth (0). In the next round, Zenit will play at home with Lazio, while Borussia will face Brugge on a visit. Both matches will take place on November 4th.
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