A triplet by Iranian Azmoun consolidates Zenit's leadership

An Iranian triplet Sardar Azmoun led the win against Ural of Zenit Saint Petersburg (7-1), who was reunited with the victory for consolidate its leadership in the Russian League that this weekend reaches the twenty-second day.

The Russian Premier is one of the few European leagues that maintains activity on the fringes of the coronavirus crisis. The session proceeds normally in all stages. On Friday Grozny lost in their field to Dynamo Moscow (2-3) and this Saturday the three scheduled matches have been completed.

Zenit, who had two consecutive draws, won again. He thrashed in his stadium, the Gaprom Arena, at Ural, installed in the equator of the classification and that already takes three meetings without winning. Azmoun, 25 years old and known as the Messi of Iran, led the team to Sergey Semak. The Iranian, who is completing his eighth season in Russian football -the second in Zenit after military before in Rostov and Rubin Kazan-, scored the first, third and fifth goals for his team against Ural.

To his goalscoring success was added that of Artem Dzyuba, who made two, that of the Argentine Sebastian Driussi and the Brazilian Malcom, who completed the bulky local account. Andrey Panyukov made the only visiting goal. Zenit now lead Krasnodar by nine points, second, who visits Sochi on Sunday, and in 12 Rostov and Lokomotiv Moscow, with their session meetings also pending.

Spartak Moscow beat Orenburg at home (1-3), threatened by decline. It was the Argentine Ezequiel Ponce, who led the visiting reaction by achieving, on the brink of rest, balancing the goal of Ghanaian Joel Fameyeh who put the locals ahead in the first minutes. In the second part, the Swedish Jordan Larsson scored the winning goal for the Moscow team, who rounded out the victory in added time through Reziuan Mirzov, who minutes before replaced Ponce.

Rubin Kazan came out of the crisis. After nine matches he won again, achieved all three points on the field of Arsenal Tula (0-1) thanks to Zuriko Davitashvili's goal on the brink of rest and despite playing from minute 55 with one less man for the expulsion of Nikita Makarov for a double yellow card. Between sunday, when three games will be played (Sochi-Krasondar, CSKA Moscow-Ufa and Rostov-Lokomotiv Moscow), and on Monday, with Tambov-Samara, the twenty-second date will be completed.