SAINT PETERSBURG, Club Cypriot origin, APOEL Nicosia, make history. For the first time they made sure to qualify for the Champions League last 16, after holding Zenit St Petersburg 0-0 in Group G, Wednesday or Thursday (11/24/2011) early morning hrs.
That result kept them atop the standings with a value of 9, while Zenit in second with a value of 8.
In the last game, December 6, 2011, against Shakhtar Donetsk will APOEL already eliminated. Meanwhile, Zenit will meet FC Porto. Zenit match versus Porto had no effect on ticket APOEL, except the winner or runner-up group. Conversely, the last game will be a determination made Zenit and Porto.
Conscious needed only a draw to win tickets to the big 16, APOEL Zenit appear to survive in the cage. While Zenit, who also wanted to make sure the next round, attacking play from the beginning.
Zenit had the ball up to 69 percent. They fired 23 attempts to score, but only 8 kick that lead to goals. It was also not able to produce a goal.
It is part of the very last game APOEL. APOEL only occasionally attacking and just make two attempts, and none of which leads to the goal.
Attempts to force the host APOEL draw was eventually successful and the game ended 0-0.
This is a great achievement for the club's Cyprus. Their best achievement so far only in the group stage in 2009-10 season and immediately eliminated. This is the second successful season they entered the group stage and immediately qualified for the round of 16.
Teams
Zenit: 16-Vyacheslav Malafeev; 6-Nicolas Lombaerts, 14-Tomas Hubocan, 4-Domenico Criscito, 2-Alexander Anyukov, 18-Konstantin Zyryanov (34-Vladimir Bystrov 55), 27-Igor Denisov, 10-Danny, 20 - Viktor Faizulin, 9-Aleksandr Bukharov, 15-Roman Shirokov
APOEL Nicosia: 78-Urko Pardo; 3-Paulo Gomes, 6-Marcelo de Oliveira, 29-Nektarious Alexandrou (19-Marios Elia 45), 77-Athos Solomou, 23-Helio Pinto, 26-Nuno Morais, 21-Gustavo Manduca , 10-Costas Charalambides, 8-Ailton Almeida (5-Sanel Jahic 67), 11-Ivan Trickovski (20-Aldo Adorno 89)
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