Zenit slipped a bit at the start, but now nobody has any doubts, this is the main contender for the championship. Sergey Semak's team played strongly in the last matches, and it is hard to believe that they will have problems against the currently worst team in the league. Ural has big problems with scoring goals and with their defence as well. In the 6 games so far, they scored only one goal and conceded 11.Last week, the club from Yekaterinburg invited Viktor Goncharenko to the post of head coach, who had previously worked successfully in CSKA and Krasnodar. But so far, the appointment of the Belarusian has not affected the game and the results of Ural, which in the last round lost at home to Nizhny Novgorod 1-0. As for Zenit, they continue with good games, and as the jargon would say "they warmed up". Although they are playing without perhaps their best player, the Brazilian Claudinho is injured, but that does not prevent Zenit from demolishing their rivals. Zenit has a very strong defense, they only allowed their rivals to score twice, according to that parameter, it is unlikely that a team that has scored only one goal so far will be able to overcome the veteran Mikhail Kerzhakov, who will be in Zenit's goal today. The difference in the quality of these two teams is like heaven and earth and I think that Zenit will win this game without any problems. Although Ural has changed its coach, it will not be a factor today, because he simply does not have a team that can compete with the best team in Russia.

My prediction;

Outcome: Zenit to win -1.5