Hello and welcome to live coverage of the Champions League game between Zenit St Petersburg and Borussia Dortmund.

Tymoshchuk replaces Arshavin.

Dortmund are comfortable in defence, keeping possession amongst them. Arshavin appears to have injured himself - his hamstring, more precisely - and should come off soon.

The weather is an icy three degrees.

Lewandowski tries to flick the ball on over the centre back for a midfield runner, but it's cut out.

Rondon does well to hold the ball up, find Witsel, who then overhits the ball for Arshavin on the left wing and Dortmund have a goal kick.

More Dortmund pressure, and Zenit are finding it hard to even clear the ball. Sahin attempts to thread a ball into the box, but it overruns and is out for a goal kick.

Dortmund continue to dominate, and have the ball in the Zenit half, on the left wing. Zenit don't seem to have much guile at the moment, just running headstrong towards the Dortmund goal whenever they get it.

Mary Poppins, what a start. That 4-4 prediction is on course to be right so far.

GOAL! Zenit 0-2 Dortmund. And another! Marco Reus has one of his own. Mkhitaryan crosses the ball in for Grosskreutz, who lays the ball off to Reus, and he hammers in a shot into the near post past Lodygin. Well, what a start.

GOAL! Zenit 0-1 Dortmund. Reus picks up the ball on the inside right and powers into the box. From outside the box until the moment he is tackled, he stands up well to pressure from the defenders, then falls and the ball rolls left for Mkhitaryan to drag across the 'keeper and into the far corner.

Arshavin loses the ball and Reus intercepts, breaking forward on the right wing until he's tripped just before the halfway line.

The early pressure comes from Dortmund but Zenit absorb the pressure and break, but the move falls apart, with Shatov in space free on the right.

The match kicks off. I'm worried I'm not going to be able to do this justice. I don't even know what a false nine is! Wait, what's a full-back? I've gone tactics blind!

Five minutes to go, and the teams are in the tunnel. If you'd like to send me your predictions on Twitter, well, you'll have to scroll a tiny bit down for my address.

Do you think it's a psychological ploy for Klopp to have grown such an amount of hair as a direct attempt to unsettle the bald Spalletti? With Klopp's attention to detail you would have to assume so. Still, Spalletti has been bald for a fair while now, so I assume he has built up several tactical strategies to cope with hirsute rivals.

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Arshavin starts, which of course means that if Dortmund go 4-0 up then Zenit can call on a four-goal specialist to come to their rescue. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this game is a guaranteed 4-4. Put your house on that outcome, it's inevitable.

TEAMS: Zenit: Lodygin; Anyukov, Lombaerts, Neto, Criscito; Witsel, Shatov; Fayzulin, Arshavin, Hulk; Rondon. Subs: Malafeev, Hubočan, Smolnikov, Luković, Zyryanov, Tymoshchuk, Kerzhakov. /// Dortmund: Weidenfeller; Piszczek, Friedrich, Sokratis, Schmelzer; Kehl, Sahin; Großkreutz, Mkhitaryan, Reus; Lewandowski. Subs: Langerak, Sarr, Durm, Hofmann, Jojić, Aubameyang, Schiebe.

Dortmund are coming off the back of a 3-0 defeat against Hamburg last Saturday. They are, of course, going through an injury crisis at the moment, but that also must be a real drain psychologically, knowing that there is no way of hitting the heights of last season whatever the remaining players try to do.

Juergen Klopp: "We have often shown the right reaction in the Champions League in the past after losing league games. It is not important which country has the strongest league. Maybe it's Spain, England or Germany, so second place is quite an honour. As for Russian football, it is progressing and Zenit are in the quarter-finals for the second time."

It's odd to think that Spalletti has been at Zenit for five years now, and not without success. He's won the Russian Premier League wice, in 2010 and 2012, and also have navigated the Champions League group stage under Spalletti for the first time in Zenit's history.