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Both sides are looking to seal a place in the knockout phase as Everton FC play host to Russian champions FC Zenit St. Petersburg in Group A on Matchday 4.
• David Moyes' Everton have won both their games in the section, against 1. FC Nürnberg and Larissa FC, and need just a point to be certain of a place in the last 32.
• Zenit need a win to make sure of qualification in their final Group A game, having drawn their home games against AZ Alkmaar and Nürnberg either side of winning 3-2 at Larissa.
• The two sides have never met in UEFA club competition.
• Everton have never been drawn against Russian opposition.
• Zenit have played three games against English sides. They beat Bradford City FC 1-0 at home and 3-0 away in a 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup semi-final but lost 1-0 at Bolton Wanderers FC in a 2005/06 UEFA Cup group stage game.
• More recently, players from the two sides met in significant UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifiers between England and Russia. Everton's Andrew Johnson was an unused substitute as England beat Guus Hiddink's side 3-0 at Wembley, with Zenit's Aleksandr Anyukov and Konstantin Zryianov starting for Russia, and Pavel Pogrebnyak on the bench.
• Anyukov and Zryianov started again as Russia won 2-1 in the return leg, with Pogrebnyak once more an unused substitute. Everton's Joleon Lescott lining up for England.
• Zenit coach Dick Advocaat has been involved in six games against English club sides as player and a coach. In the 1971/72 UEFA Cup he played in a HSV FC Den Haag ADO side which lost 7-1 on aggregate to Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.
• However, in his four games as a club coach against English sides, Advocaat has yet to be beaten, with his PSV Eindhoven side beating Leeds United AFC 3-0 at home and 5-3 away in a 1995/96 UEFA Cup tie and then winning home and away against Newcastle United FC in the 1997/98 UEFA Champions League group stage.
• Advocaat recently signed a new one-year contract at the Petrovsky Stadium having led them to their first league title since 1984 – when they were still Zenit Leningrad.
• Zenit are unbeaten in their last three European away games.
• The club have also made their first signings of the closed season, bringing in FC Khimki midfielder Roman Shirokov and playmaker Viktor Faizulin from FC Spartak Nalchik.
• Everton defender Alan Stubbs has been ruled out of both of the club's remaining group stage games with a calf injury.
• Nürnberg are at home against AZ in Wednesday's other Group A game.
* 24 Tim Howard
* 18 Phil Neville
* 16 Philip Jagielka
* 5 Joleon Lescott
* 3 Leighton Baines
* 20 Steven Pienaar
* 17 Tim Cahill
* 26 Lee Carsley
* 6 Mikel Arteta
* 8 Andrew Johnson
* 11 James McFadden
Substitutes
* 33 Stefan Wessels
* 10 Thomas Gravesen
* 14 James Vaughan
* 21 Leon Osman
* 22 Yakubu Ayegbeni
* 28 Victor Anichebe
* 29 Patrick Boyle
Zenit St. Petersburg
* 16 Vyacheslav Malafeev
* 22 Aleksandr Anyukov
* 3 Martin Å*krtel
* 6 Nicolas Lombaerts
* 5 Kim Dong Jin
* 44 Anatoliy Tymoschuk
* 18 Konstantin Zyrianov
* 11 Radek Å*Ã*rl
* 10 Andrei Arshavin
* 7 Alejandro Dominguez
* 8 Pavel Pogrebnyak
Substitutes
* 1 Kamil Čontofalský
* 2 Vladislav Radimov
* 14 Erik Hagen
* 17 Lee Ho
* 57 Aleksei Ionov
* 75 Yury Lebedev
* 88 Olexandr Gorshkov
Happily settle for a draw tonight. Pretty sure most people are going to watch Arsenal/Newcastle game but hohum.
12-05-2007, 08:28 PM
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