The match between Volga and Zenit in the ¼ finals of the FONBET Way of Regions of the Cup of Russia is completely unpredictable, the Petersburgers need to immediately take the lead, the former Zenit defender, USSR champion as part of the team Sergey Vedeneev told RB Sport.

– Zenit’s match in Ulyanovsk is completely unpredictable. Because as long as we remember similar matches in the away cup… And there’s nothing to be done about it. Conditions, flight, defective composition, I don’t talk about the weather at all. If the home team manages to score a goal, then they literally cling to this result with their teeth. Let’s see if Zenit can adapt to tomorrow’s conditions and, based on them, build their game. I think that in any situation it is better to immediately start “thrashing” forward and fight there. There are no other options, it seems to me.

– By the way, about the composition. Are there any surprises in it?

– I don’t know what the coach has in his head, what plans, what the condition of the players is. On the one hand, it would not hurt to let the substitutes play, but on the other hand, I want to go further. With teams like Volga, of course, you need to sort it out in the first half, and then make substitutions so that other players come out, give everyone the opportunity to play.

Watch the live broadcast of the Volga-Zenit match on February 25 at 14:25 on the Match TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.