Zenit, Anji and Rubin won confident victories in the Europa League

The Russian clubs Zenit, Anji and Rubin successfully started in the spring stage of the Playoff League of the European UEFA, having won the formidable opponents in the second most important football European competition.

The St. Petersburg team, inspired by the powerful support of its fans , at the Petrovsky stadium scored two unrequited balls into the goal of the English Liverpool, who came to the city on the Neva with its strongest composition.

In the second half, at the wards, Luciano Spalletti scored a hulk (69 ') and Sergey Semak (72') with an interval of three minutes.

The Makhachkala residents in Luzhniki forced the German Ganover to capitulate, having won a large and strong -willed victory with a score of 3: 1. To the goal of Sabolcha Hazi (22 '), the wards of Hus Hiddinka later responded with the productive blows of Samuel Et'o (34'), Odila Akhmedova (48 ') and Bussufa Mbark (64').

Later, already on Friday Moscow time, the players of the Kazan Rubin on the road 2-0 forced to surrender the second team of the Championship of Spain and the current winner of the European League - the Madrid "Atletico", and they managed to do this in a numerical minority.

In the sixth minute of the meeting, the gates of the Spaniards were struck by the hecteniz Karadeniz, and Pablo Orbeis distinguished himself in the last, fifth added minute. At the equator of the match for the second yellow card, the captain of Rubin Roman Sharonov was deleted. The game took place at the Vicente Calderon stadium.

The return matches will be held on the night of February 22 in the Moscow summer time.