Real Madrid 3-0 Zenit: result and report
Champions League · Wednesday 10 December 2008
Result
Real Madrid 3-0 Zenit
Champions League · Wednesday 10 December 2008, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
Real Madrid 3-0 Zenit: match report
Real Madrid beat Zenit 3-0 in the Champions League on Wednesday 10 December 2008. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Raúl opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Real Madrid's goals came from Raúl (25'), Arjen Robben (50') and Raúl (57'). Zenit did not score.
Discipline: Real Madrid received no yellow cards; Zenit received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Real Madrid were 25th on 9 points from 5 and Zenit 39th on 5 points from 5. This fixture belongs to an earlier Champions League season and is kept for reference.
Real Madrid lined up in a 4-3-3 and Zenit in a 4-3-1-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Real Madrid win, 0 draws and 0 for Zenit.
Going into the match Real Madrid's last five read W-L-L-W-W and Zenit's D-W-D-L-L.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Raúl
- 50'Goal · Arjen Robben
- 57'Goal · Raúl
- 63'Yellow card · Danny
- 84'Yellow card · Radek Sírl
Head-to-head
Team news
Real Madrid expected line-up (4-3-3)
Iker Casillas, Marcelo, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Mahamadou Diarra, Wesley Sneijder, Guti, Fabio Cannavaro, Gonzalo Higuaín, Raúl
Zenit line-up (4-3-1-2)
Vyacheslav Malafeev, Ivica Krizanac, Nicolas Lombaerts, Radek Sírl, Aleksandr Anyukov, Danny, Igor Denisov, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Pavel Pogrebnyak, Andrey Arshavin, Konstantin Zyryanov