Zenit St. Petersburg in the Equality Cup match. Petersburg defeated Chinese Shanghai Shenhua, coached by Russian specialist Leonid Slutsky.
The meeting ended with a score of 6:0.
Among the winners, Pedro, Douglas dos Santos, Gustavo Mantuan scored accurate shots and Mateo Cassierra scored a hat-trick.
This victory allowed the club on the banks of the Neva to move into first place in the Equality Cup, gaining six points. Sergei Semak’s team overtook the Chinese club in the points table.
Slutsky took charge of Shanghai Shenhua in December 2023. Slutsky’s players are participating in the Equality Cup, which will be held in Qatar from 1 to 13 February. In the first two rounds, Shanghai Shenhua beat Qatar’s Al-Duhail (1:0) and Brazil’s Santos (4:1).
The last place of work of Leonid Slutsky before China was Rubin Kazan. Under his leadership, the team took the penultimate place in the Russian Premier League (RPL) in the 2021/22 season and was relegated to the First League.
In the Russian Championship standings, Zenit is in second place with 36 points.
Previously former Zenit player Igor Zazulin named The main advantage of Semak over Slutsky.