Zenit St. Petersburg face Shanghai Shenhua in a friendly match, with championat.ru reporting that the online broadcast begins at 15:00 Moscow time. The outlet later noted that the live stream had started.
According to fc-zenit.ru, Moskvichev and Felipe Augusto were named in the starting lineups. No further match details were available in the source material.
The fixture comes alongside news of closer ties between the two clubs. sportmail.ru reported that Zenit and Shanghai Shenhua signed a cooperation agreement. Separately, Sportbox reported that a Chinese digital platform became a partner of Zenit.
The reports, all published on the same day, place the friendly within a broader partnership between the Russian club and its Chinese counterpart, though the source material did not specify the terms of the agreement or the identity of the digital platform beyond its Chinese origin.
What to watch next: whether the clubs release further details on the scope of their cooperation agreement and any follow-up fixtures between them.
