Zenit suffers a painful 2-1 loss to Real Madrid
By: j | September 30th, 2008Dick Advocaat’s dream of Champions League glory took a massive downward turn as Zenit Saint Petersburg suffered a heart-breaking 2-1 loss to Real Madrid at Petrovsky Stadium.
Los Blancos came out on the attack and tested Vyacheslav Malafeev early. However disaster was just around the corner when a Rafael van der Vaart cross at the four minute mark was unfortunately cleared into the net by surprise starter Tomáš Hubočan for an own goal. A goal handicapped early, Zenit Saint Petersburg pushed forward looking for the leveling goal. At the twenty-fifth minute Andrei Arshavin orchestrated a splendid tying goal when he volleyed to an unmarked Danni in-close. However six minutes later the nightmare continued as with Zenit pushing forward for the lead, a defensive miscue gave Ruud van Nistelrooy a point-blank opportunity which he crisply deposited into the back of the net. With the score 2-1 in the visitors favour, Zenit drove ahead to level the match, yet opportunity after opportunity was squandered and they fell to their second successive Champions League defeat.
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this was a really good game. perhaps the Lenin-era Petrovsky, with it’s mine-field of a pitch, typical depressing Saint Petersburg weather, and animal-like crowd, actually did the Champions League justice! It felt like a man’s game, not the glitzy, Milan fashion show we’re used to being broadcast. I didn’t see one Heineken billboard or commercial. It felt more like a Russian derby. Even Pepe’s antics didn’t ruin it. Good stuff.
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Anthropology – I feel like I have to deny posting your comments because I not only feel precisely the same but one of the things I most appreciate of Football in Russia. Simply, thank you.
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