Baltika — Zenit 2:3, 16 September: match result

match finished Russian Premier League · Matchday 9 Wednesday 16 September · 17:45 UTC

Baltika 8th · 11 pts DDLDL

2 : 3 1st half 1:2

Zenit 4th · 18 pts WWWWL

Rostec Arena · referee A. Chistyakov

Match predictionBold

Zenit to avoid defeat

84% · Baltika games average 2.9 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Zenit to avoid defeat”, and the match finished 2:3.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Baltika 21% draw 25% Zenit 54%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Zenit win, and the match finished 2:3. Fans backed Zenit win — they got it right.

fans 63 votes

Baltika 17% draw 16% Zenit 67%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Glushenkov assist: A. Karpukas 0-1 9'

A. Sobolev assist: Pedrinho 0-2 16'

B. Gil assist: K. Shiltsov 1-2 22'

V. Pospelov for M. Petrov 46'

I. Belikov for A. Mourid 46'

Luiz Henrique assist: A. Sobolev 1-3 49'

I. Belikov 53'

E. Golenkov for B. Gil 63'

M. Ryadno for M. Beveev 63'

N. Alip for A. Karpukas 67'

R. Vega for M. Glushenkov 67'

S. Varatynov 70'

V. Karavaev for Gustavo Mantuan 74'

I. Petrov for K. Shiltsov 77'

I. Petrov 2-3 81'

Felipe Augusto for A. Sobolev 86'

D. Kondakov for Pedrinho 86'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Baltika 5-4-1 · Andrey Talalaev 4-2-3-1 · Sergey Semak Zenit

Evgeniy Latyshonok  
Maksim Shnaptsev  2 Sergey Varatynov  24 Loris Mouyokolo  4 Nathan Gassama  22 Mingiyan Beveev  
Maksim Petrov  8 Andrey Mendel  5 Aymane Mourid  7 Konstantin Shiltsov  
Brayan Gil  

Aleksandr Sobolev  
Maksim Glushenkov  20 Pedro  11 Luiz Henrique  
Wílmar Barrios  93 Artem Karpukas  
Gustavo Mantuan  78 Igor Diveev  25 Kevin Andrade  3 Douglas Santos  
Denis Adamov  

Baltika bench

69Egor Golenkov
44Egor Lyubakov
77Eldar Ćivić
3Ilya Kirsch
10Ilya Petrov
11Ilya Porokhov
26Ivan Belikov
81Ivan Kukushkin
68Mikhail Ryadno
9Nnamdi Chinonso Offor
42Vladislav Pospelov

Zenit bench

21Alexandr Erokhin
38Amir Musaev
57Bogdan Moskvichev
61Daniil Kondakov
71Daniil Odoevskiy
9Felipe Augusto
14Jhon Jhon
28Nuraly Alip
66Román Vega
82Sergey Volkov
51Vadim Shilov
15Vyacheslav Karavaev

Match stats

14 metrics for the full match

41%Possession59%

8Shots11

4Shots on target8

4Shots off target2

0Blocked shots1

7Shots inside box5

1Shots outside box6

10Corners8

0Offsides1

16Fouls7

2Yellow cards0

5Saves2

327Passes497

236Accurate passes400

Baltika

ZenitThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Baltika and Zenit met on matchday 9 of the Russian Premier League on 16 September at Rostec Arena. Final score — 2:3.

Baltika sit 8th on 11 points after 11 matches (3 wins, 4 draws, 4 losses), winless in 5 matches, 4 matches without conceding. Zenit sit 4th on 18 points after 11 matches (8 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses), unbeaten in 4 matches, 4 matches without conceding.

Of the last 4 meetings Baltika won 0, Zenit won 3, with 1 more meeting drawn. Aggregate score — 0:3.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Baltika last five Zenit

DDLDL form WWWWL

11 Matches 11

3 — 4 — 4 Wins — draws — defeats 8 — 0 — 3

14 — 12 Scored — conceded 25 — 13

1.18 Points per game 2.18

1.27 Goals scored per game 2.27

4 Clean sheets 4

3 Failed to score 1

unbeaten in 2 Current streak unbeaten in 4

Baltika at home: 6 matches, 1 win, 2 draws, 3 losses, goals 6—8, 0.83 points per match.

Zenit away: 6 matches, 5 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, goals 15—6, 2.5 points per match.

Head-to-head

4 matches in our database

0 Baltika wins 1 draw 3 Zenit wins goals 0:3 Baltika — Zenit

05/08/2026	Zenit — Baltika	1:0	Russian Cup
03/03/2026	Baltika — Zenit	0:1	Russian Cup
27/02/2026	Zenit — Baltika	1:0	Russian Premier League
14/09/2025	Baltika — Zenit	0:0	Russian Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
3	Krasnodar	11	6	4	1	19—13	22
4	Zenit	10	7	0	3	22—11	21
5	Spartak Moskva	10	6	2	2	17—8	20
6	Dinamo Makhachkala	11	4	1	6	16—21	13
7	Baltika	10	3	3	4	14—12	12
8	Rubin Kazan	10	2	6	2	12—12	12

Full Russian Premier League table