The Zenit Gazette
Match2 Jan 2027
Zenit tear Dinamo Makhachkala apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Dinamo Makhachkala, and it could have been more.
Market4 Jan 2027
Nino puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zenit, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match2 Jan 2027
Nobody wins at Zenit
16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Sergej Milinković-Savić scores twice — 8.42
Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A day Robert Renan will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
There is money circling Zenit
Nothing signed, nothing denied, and a lot of people suddenly very careful about their wording. Supporters who have been through one of these know the quiet part lasts months.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Alex Meret
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Zenit have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Como join the queue for Maxim Glushenkov
Add another name to the list: Como have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maxim Glushenkov. The answer from Zenit has not changed — yet.
Market4 Jan 2027
Zalgiris come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zenit did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
In brief
- The dugout Mark Yakovlev says Zenit went back on their word
- Match Zenit cannot stop winning
- Player ratings Robert Renan was on a different afternoon to everybody else