Zenit won the first match at the Krestovsky stadium

The St. Petersburg Zenit beat Ural from Yekaterinburg in the first match on April 22 at the new stadium Krestovsky. It is reported by R-Sport .

The meeting in the framework of the 24th round of the Russian Football Premier League (Premier League) ended with a score of 2: 0. The first ball in this meeting was scored by the defender of the hosts Branislav Ivanovich in the 86th minute. In the 93rd minute, the midfielder John Mollo distinguished himself. The guests played out the match without three players - Eric Bikfalvi, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Roman Emelyanov were removed from the field.

Earlier it was reported that actor Mikhail Boyarsky, who has been a lot of years old for the Zenit football club, will be a announcer at the first match of the team, which will be held at the new stadium on Krestovsky Island.

The Krestovsky stadium was commissioned in December 2016. The arena was built for about 10 years. It was originally planned to put him into operation in 2009, but the project was changed and later changed several times. As a result, the cost of work increased from 6 billion rubles to a little less than 40 billion rubles. The stadium will accept the matches of the Confederations Cup 2017 and the 2018 World Cup.