Zenit look to continue perfect start

MOSCOW, Aug 22 (AFP): Zenit St Petersburg will be confident of extending their perfect start to the Russian Premier League season when they welcome Amkar Perm to the Petrovsky Stadium Saturday.

Zenit are the only team to have won all four matches so far and have scored 15 goals in the process, including eight against newly-promoted Torpedo Moscow.

They will have their home support behind them once again after being forced to play both Torpedo and Ufa behind closed doors because of a two-game supporter ban as a punishment for trouble at a match against Dynamo Moscow late last season.

And an Amkar side who have collected just one point from their opening four games would appear unlikely to represent a stiff test for Zenit, even if this encounter comes in between the two legs of a Champions League play-off against Standard Liege for Andre Villas-Boas's men.

An Oleg Shatov strike gave Zenit a 1-0 win in Belgium Wednesday, leaving last season's Russian runners-up with one foot in the group stage ahead of next Tuesday's return.