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Match report
English Footie
UEFA Cup: Round 3 (setup 1, season 29)
Zenit
v.
Tottenham Hotspur
Formation:
4-3-3
Aleksandr BELENOV61Jack BUTLAND
Formation:
5-3-2
League position:
19
Overall form:
Home form:
Siboniso GAXA727Kyle WALKER
Dzhamaldin KHODZHANIAZOV63Joël MATIP
Nicolai POULSEN74Jordan HENDERSON
Oleksiy POLYANSKYI75John STONES
Velice SUMULIKOSKI66James MILNER
Oleg VLASOV7Seamus COLEMAN
Maksim KANUNNIKOV78Dele ALLI
Dragan CADIKOVSKI9Theo WALCOTT
LEE Ho6107Vincent ABOUBAKAR
Scott DOBIE118Raheem STERLING
ManagerHeath Brown
Pavel YAKOVLEV12André AYEW
Egor BABURIN13Tim HOWARD
Enis ALUSHI14James WARD-PROWSE
KIM Dong-jin15Andy CARROLL
RAFAEL CRUZ Ojer16Alex OXLADE-CHAMBERLAIN

Zenit 0 Tottenham Hotspur 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 21,941, Stadium: Petrovski, Referee: Marcus MERK 5½, TV: live)
Scorers34 Aboubakar, 60 Aboubakar
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
7Corners6
8Fouls8
9Offsides12
3Shots on6
4Shots off11
7Total shots17
3Shots saved4
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Raheem STERLING
6An inswinging corner was forced into the arms of the 'keeper by DOBIE.
14A shot from ABOUBAKAR was smothered by the Zenit 'keeper.
14A free-kick from ABOUBAKAR raced just beyond the far post.
18ABOUBAKAR snapped at an easy chance.
18VLASOV nodded the ball wide of the lefthand post from the edge of the box.
19VLASOV shot wide.
25MILNER worked the ball to WALKER, HENDERSON gathered his cross and headed the ball within easy reach of the Zenit 'keeper.
28A mix up in the Zenit defence enabled STERLING to crack the ball just beyond the near post.
28MILNER headed just beyond the far post.
30A penalty box meleé resulted in ABOUBAKAR driving the ball over.
33A header by ABOUBAKAR at the far post was comfortably collected by the Zenit 'keeper.
34GOAL!! On the left wing STERLING collected a defender's clearance and hit it into the penalty box for ABOUBAKAR to drill it into the roof of the net. (1-0 Tottenham Hotspur)
37The hapless Zenit 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from POULSEN fell just wide.
 
55GAXA beat two Tottenham Hotspur players and stroked a shot over the bar.
59ABOUBAKAR ran onto a great ball from MILNER but hit his shot wide.
60GOAL!! Some useful work by HENDERSON on the right, left ABOUBAKAR yards clear, and he beat BELENOV and thundered the ball into the back of the net. (2-0 Tottenham Hotspur)
67KANUNNIKOV's header was well saved by the 'keeper.
68A corner was collected by ABOUBAKAR who fired an effort wide.
70A pin-point pass was collected by WALKER and his left foot shot went narrowly over.
75CADIKOVSKI floated the ball to LEE who turned it over the bar.
79HENDERSON made space on the left and pulled the ball to ABOUBAKAR who touched the ball wide.
81BUTLAND blocked a lovely shot from KANUNNIKOV.
86A shot from COLEMAN was hoofed off the line by KHODZHANIAZOV.
90+1HENDERSON was put clear by MATIP and he raced past the 'keeper but struck his shot wide.