Valencia vs Zenit Prediction and Previews

This is not gonna be milk and honey for Valencia that played one on El Molinon last Saturday. Their opponents, Real Sporting de Gijon give them tough time by their resistance and lose their grip i the last moments of the match when striker Paco headed a cross from Zakaria Bakkali. After two consecutive draw against Deportivo La Coruno and Rayo Vallecano, is was the first win of Valencia, but Los Che worked really hard in the field to grab it.


Valencia returns after missing two previous editions returns to this edition of UEFA Champions League. Nuno Espirito has done a remarkable job in improving overall teams performance, since it will be his first as Head Coach at this edition of UEFA Champions League. In 2003-04 Champions League final, Nuno Espirito was the backup goalie for Legendary Vitor Baia When FC Porto lift second trophy of their history by beating Monaco 3-0.



Valencia has some bad news as their two goalie , Diego Alves and Mathew Ryan, are out to couple of months due to injury and will probably miss the next encounter with FC Zenit.
On the other hand, Russian Champions Fc Zenit performance is quite inconsistent so far and went into managerial crisis as Andre Villa-Boas announced last week that he wold took-off the reign of the club by the end of the season. Before the international break, the Portuguese manager is rewarded a six-match ban at Russian Premier League after allegedly pushing a fourth official is team home defeat against Krylya Sovetov.