The players are going to join their national teams

On 6 November the Zenit players called-up by their national teams left for their international duty.
Andrey Lunev, Igor Smolnikov, Yury Zhirkov, Alexander Yerokhin, Daler Kuzyaev, Alexander Kokorin and Dmitry Poloz will all join up with Russia for the friendly matches with Argentina (11 November) and Spain (14 November). 

Leandro Paredes, Emanuel Mammana, Matias Kranevitter and Emiliano Rigoni will head to  Argentina for the games with Russia (11 November) and Nigeria (14 November) and finally Branislav Ivanovic was called-up by Serbia, to play against China (10 November 10) and South Korea (14 November). 

The players not selected for their national teams will resume training after a three-day break. The next Zenit match will be held on 19 November at Stadium St. Petersburg against Tosno, tickets are available on tickets.fc-zenit.ru