He Zenith the season began this Tuesday as the previous one ended, in which he was league and cup champion, that is, winning at the stadium of Rotor of Volgograd (0-2).
The most outstanding player of the champion was the Argentine Sebastian Driussi, who passed the first goal and scored the second that certified the victory of his team.
Dzyuba In the 22nd minute he took advantage of a ball steal and a measured pass from the player from River Plate to score into an empty goal.
It cost Zenit more than expected finalize the match against a newly promoted, but a failure of the local goalkeeper allowed Driussi to score the second goal in the 78th minute.
The meeting, which marked the return of the historic Rotor to the division of honor after a 16-year absence, was played in a World Cup stadium (Volgograd Arena) built on the banks of the Volga, the scene of the Battle of Stalingrad.
In this way, Zenit, which already took the first title at stake, the Super Cup, joins Krasnodar, CSKA, Dinamo and Rostov as leaders of the Russian championship with three points each. The last game of the day that started on Saturday will be played by Rubín and Lokomotiv Moscow.