Zenit St. Petersburg vs Krasnodar Prediction and Betting Tips | July 13th 2024 

Zenit St. Petersburg will host Krasnodar at the Volgograd Arena on Saturday in the 2024 Russian Supercup final. The Blue-White-Sky Blues enjoyed a brilliant campaign last season as they successfully defended their Russian Premier League title for a sixth consecutive time.

They also secured the Russian Cup in brilliant fashion, picking up a 2-1 comeback victory over Baltika in the final, with Nino and Nuraly Alip getting on the scoresheet in the final 15 minutes of the game.

Zenit had a largely positive pre-season campaign, picking up wins over Sochi and Talleres in their first two friendlies before losing 2-1 to Red Star Belgrade last time out.

Krasnodar also enjoyed a brilliant league campaign last season and were atop the league standings for most parts of the first half of the season before a shaky run of form in the second saw them end the campaign in second place, one point behind their weekend opponents.

The Bulls enjoyed a strong showing during the off-season, wrapping things up with a 3-2 victory over Rostov last weekend. They will be looking to build on that result when they return to competitive action this Saturday in a bid to overthrow the record champions and current holders of the Supercup title.

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Zenit St. Petersburg vs Krasnodar Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• There have been 26 meetings between the two teams. Zenit St. Petersburg have won 16 of those games while Krasnodar have won just three times. There have been seven draws between the two teams.
• Zenit are undefeated in their last 12 games in this fixture.
• The visitors are without a clean sheet in their last 16 games in this fixture.
• The Zeniters had the best defensive record in the Russian top flight last season with a goal concession tally of 29.

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Zenit St. Petersburg vs Krasnodar Prediction

Zenit's latest result ended a six-game winless streak and they will be looking to bounce back here. They have performed well in this fixture historically and will head into the weekend clash as slight favorites.

Krasnodar are on a five-game winning streak after winning just three of their previous 11. The gulf in class and experience at this stage could, however, see the defending champions come out on top here.

Prediction: Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 Krasnodar

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Zenit St. Petersburg vs Krasnodar Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: Zenit St Petersburg to win

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Over 2.5 goals (Seven of the last nine matches between the two teams have produced more than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: YES (Both sides have found the back of the net in nine of their last 10 matches)