FC Zenit vs Villarreal live online

Watch FC Zenit vs Villarreal live online with our live European soccer streams available to you on your membership to www.oleolefootball.com . FC Zenit will be hoping to continue their great home so far in this competition as they look to negotiate high flying Spanish opposition Villarreal in the first round of the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup.

Zenit have been sublime at home this season and it was their fine home form which carried the Russians to the next round of the second tier of European Club football. Zenit narrowly scraped through to the next round of the UEFA Cup finishing third in Group C. However, they will be encouraged by the performances of Russian sides in recent competition, especially CSKA Moscow’s triumph in the UEFA Cup three seasons ago. Zenit have been very active over the transfer window bringing in players of caliber like Oman Shirokov, Victor Fayzulin while Martin Skrtel, Erik Hagen, Philip Postnikov have made their move out of the St. Petersburg based club.

Villarreal are currently flying high in the Spanish League and barring a late collapse, they look certain to secure the Champions League places for next year. Villarreal qualified for this clash after finishing first in Group A and with strikers Nihat, Diego Forlan and Rossi in fine form of late, they do look to be favourites to negotiate their Russian challenge. However, the first leg will hold the key to this two legged affair and as many have found out earlier, the cold soddy conditions in the Russian winter do not make for the best of playing competition. Despite losing Riquelme in the winter transfer window, the fine form of French veteran Robert Pires will give the Spanish side enough experience to prove their mettle in Russia this upcoming midweek.

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