Having being eliminated from the Russian Cup mid-week, Zenit turned attention to the league, with the goal to stay in first place (tied with Spartak Moscow) and to widen the difference from CSKA (Spartak triumphed yesterday in the Moscow derby 3-1).
FC Tom Tomsk’s intentions were to defend at Petrovsky while looking for any opportunities in counter-attack.
Defence lasted for only half an hour of game play where the mountain Dzyuba jumped higher to assist Kokorin who had no trouble to write the 1-0 for Lucescu’s men.
Zenit’s attacking gears started working better with Kokorin and Dzyuba reaching the second goal but had no luck in netting another before half-time.
Kochenkov was in a good day under Tomsk’s posts keeping Tom in the game until the end, but Zenit returned to winning ways with the fragile 1-0 and still unbeaten in the league.
Zenit face Dundalk at home next on Thursday 03/11 for the Europa League.
