Zenit St. Petersburg Beat Spartak Moscow And Qualify For Champions League

The former UEFA Cup winners have qualified for next season's Champions League...

RPL: Vladimir Bystrov - Zenit
Russian Premier League side Zenit St. Petersburg have qualified for the preliminary stage of next season's Champions League. They finished third in the table after beating Spartak Moscow on Sunday.

Goals from Konstantin Zyryanov and Nicolas Lombaerts either side of half-time put Zenit two up before Malik Fathi pulled one back late on. Zenit played for most of the game with 10 men following Sszabolcs Huszti's 43rd-minute sending off.

Victory saw Zenit finish ahead of Lokomotiv Moscow on goal difference. Both sides collected 54 points from 30 games this season.

Rubin Kazan are the winners of this year's Russian Premier League with an eight point lead on runners-up Spartak Moscow. They ended the season in style with a 3-0 win at Kuban Krasnodar. Hasan Kabze and Rafal Murawski scored in the first half and substitute Igor Portnyagin added a third after the break as Kuban were relegated.

Stefan Coerts, Goal.com

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