Advocaat puts faith in Tekke for final
Enlarge imageLONDON (Reuters) - Zenit St Petersburg coach Dick Advocaat replaced suspended striker Pavel Pogrebnyak, the competition’s joint top-scorer, with Turkish forward Fatih Tekke for the UEFA Cup final against Rangers on Wednesday.
Playmaker Andrei Arshavin returned to the side after missing the semi-final second leg win over Bayern Munich.
Rangers midfielder Kevin Thomson was named in the starting lineup after recovering from a foot injury.
With Daniel Cousin banned, Jean-Claude Darcheville was selected to lead Rangers’ attack in a lone striker role.
Teams:
Zenit St Petersburg: 16-Vyacheslav Malafeev; 22-Alexander Anyukov, 15-Roman Shirokov, 4-Ivica Krizanac, 11-Radek Sirl; 27-Igor Denisov, 44-Anatoly Tymoschuk, 18-Konstantin Zyrianov; 20-Viktor Fayzulin, 10-Andrei Arshavin, 9-Fatih Tekke
Rangers: 13-Neil Alexander; 21-Kirk Broadfoot, 3-David Weir, 24-Carlos Cuellar, 5-Sasa Papac; 28-Steven Whittaker, 7-Brahim Hemdani, 6-Barry Ferguson, 8-Kevin Thomson, 35-Steven Davis; 19-Jean-Claude Darcheville
Referee: Peter Frojdfeldt (Sweden)
(Compiled by Justin Palmer; editing by Ken Ferris and Tom Pilcher)
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LONDON (Reuters) - Zenit St Petersburg coach Dick Advocaat replaced suspended striker Pavel Pogrebnyak, the competition’s joint top-scorer, with Turkish forward Fatih Tekke for the UEFA Cup final against Rangers on Wednesday.
Playmaker Andrei Arshavin returned to the side after missing the semi-final second leg win over Bayern Munich.
Rangers midfielder Kevin Thomson was named in the starting lineup after recovering from a foot injury.
With Daniel Cousin banned, Jean-Claude Darcheville was selected to lead Rangers’ attack in a lone striker role.
Teams:
Zenit St Petersburg: 16-Vyacheslav Malafeev; 22-Alexander Anyukov, 15-Roman Shirokov, 4-Ivica Krizanac, 11-Radek Sirl; 27-Igor Denisov, 44-Anatoly Tymoschuk, 18-Konstantin Zyrianov; 20-Viktor Fayzulin, 10-Andrei Arshavin, 9-Fatih Tekke
Rangers: 13-Neil Alexander; 21-Kirk Broadfoot, 3-David Weir, 24-Carlos Cuellar, 5-Sasa Papac; 28-Steven Whittaker, 7-Brahim Hemdani, 6-Barry Ferguson, 8-Kevin Thomson, 35-Steven Davis; 19-Jean-Claude Darcheville
Referee: Peter Frojdfeldt (Sweden)
(Compiled by Justin Palmer; editing by Ken Ferris and Tom Pilcher)
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