Marseille got rather comfortable home win over another Russia team Zenith 3-1 and made a big step towards a last eight of UEFA Cup. Marseille was by far better team in the field but could be disappointed by late goal of Zenith which remains Russian champion chances for promotion. Marseille's attacking leader Djibril Cisse scored once in the first half while storm in the debut of second half allowed him to score once more while Njang added a goal too, Russian leader Arshavin could score once at the end.

Marseille used their scheme here, Kona was suspended and also Zubar started from the bench but then he appears on the field, Cisse and Njang were both brilliant in attack, as one won air struggle while Cisse was too fast fro Russia team as well as Nasri and Valbuena and speed of Marseille made a result here. Zenith had big troubles before this game and they influenced on the result, as Gorshkov played in defense and his mistakes led to goals and also 2 crossbars saved Zenith as well as Malafeev in some episodes. Riksen and Faizulin were also invisible on the field, but due to lack of players Zenith made substitutions only close to end of the game and could change a bit as Denisov and Radimov both looked quite well.

Marseille is known as home side so they decided to make a result from first seconds and Cisse could open a scoreline in the debut of the game but Malafeev saved Zenith, and later game was pretty equal with small territorial advantage of hosts but there were not really dangerous moments till the 30 minute. After it Zenith began playing worse and Marseille hit the crossbar twice and once after rude positional mistake of Gorshkov Cisse scored his goal. Start of the second half was awful for Russians as Marseille was close to win it more easily as they scored twice and were close to have even 5-0 lead here. Zenith could save 3-0 loss here and punished relaxed French side at the end when Arshavin sole move underlined a final 3-1 home win here.

Marseille got a fair win 3-1 here and have solid chances to qualify to next stage, but Marseille is a typical home side and they could have problems in Russia as they had with Spartak. Zenith have problems with defense as Lombaerts is still out and other players are not nominal defenders as Gorshkov or Shirokov, so it will make another problems for Russians, while attack could be stronger if Tekke or Dominguez recover to this game.