2007/08 UEFA Cup: Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Bayern Munich

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Thursday, May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008 18:30 (CET)
	Zenit Saint Petersburg	4–0	Bayern Munich	Petrovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, Russia Attendance: 21,500 Referee: Tom Henning Øvrebø
	Pogrebnyak 5' Zyrianov 39' Fayzulin 56' Pogrebnyak 73' Pogrebnyak 76' Domínguez 89' Lee Ho 89' Denisov 90+1' Ionov 90+1'	Match Report	46' Jansen 46' Lell 46' Zé Roberto 46' Podolski 62' Klose 62' Sosa 67' Toni 81' Lell

Zenit Saint Petersburg win 5–1 on aggregate.

Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg booked their place in the 2007-08 UEFA Cup Final with a victory over Germans Bayern Munich, 4-0 on the night and 5-1 on aggregate.

Pavel Pogrebnyak opened the scoring after five minutes, and Konstatin Zyrianov doubled Zenit's lead six minutes before half-time.

Viktor Fayzulin made it three eleven minutes into the second half, and Pavel Pogrebnyak completed the rout with seventeen minutes left.

Despite scoring two goals, Pogrebnyak received a yellow card and, as a result, will miss the final.

Zenit Saint Petersburg will meet Scottish club Rangers in the final, which will be held in Manchester, England, on May 14, 2008. Rangers were formerly managed by Zenit's current boss Dick Advocaat.

References

• "Zenit 4-0 Bayern Munich: Bayern battered". Soccernet.com, May 1, 2008
• Gennady Fyodorov "Zenit crush Bayern 4-0 to reach UEFA Cup final". The Guardian, May 1, 2008

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