On October 20, the match of the third round of the Champions League group stage will take place, in which Russian Zenit will play at home with Italian Juventus. The forecast for this match is given by Maxim Kalinichenko, a well-known former football player of Spartak Moscow and the national team of Ukraine.
Zenit, after a big victory over Malmo (4-0), had a chance of a real fight for getting into the Champions League playoffs. In the first round with Chelsea (0:1), Sergey Semak's team also looked very decent, and this match with Juventus can be decisive. But Torino are also determined in the current European Cup campaign, having managed to win both opening matches against Malmo (3-0) and Chelsea (1-0).
But Juventus have serious problems in the championship – Massimiliano Allegri's team is only in seventh place in the Serie A standings, having failed at the start. Zenit is in the lead in the Russian Premier League, although in the last two matches they managed to lose with the same score 1:2 to Sochi and Arsenal Tula. "Old Signora" defeated Roma at home in a difficult match last weekend (1-0).
Maxim Kalinichenko believes that Juventus will strive to build on its success in the Champions League, and will play to win in St. Peteburg in order to stake out a ticket to the playoffs of the tournament early. Zenit, of course, will fight for the result, but the expert does not believe that Sergey Semak's team will even be able to draw here.