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With these the two stand-out teams early on in the Russian Premier League season, this was sure to be an important clash to sort out the hierarchy among the title challengers. Moneyed Zenit looked the favourites going into the match, having seemingly shrugged off the slump that has seen them finish runners-up to CSKA Moscow for the past two seasons as they look to really establish themselves as a European heavyweight, yet the arrival of Mathieu Valbuena at Dinamo has given them a new creative spark to go with their steel. It would be typical for this sort of game to be nervy as both teams to try and cancel the other out, yet with five goals scored this obviously wasn’t the case. Some of the alterations to the starting line-ups hinted that both coaches had attempted to tailor their teams to stop the other, but in changing their team had rendered the other’s changes futile. Stanislav Cherchesov changed to a 4-4-2, moving Valbuena from his central position behind the strikers out to the left as Dinamo sat back in two banks of four. With Zenit usually lining up in a 4-2-3-1, the idea seemed to be to stop them […]
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