Dinamo Moscow come into this cup tie with a spring in their step after that gritty 2-1 win over Krasnodar back in May — a result that ultimately knocked Krasnodar off the top of the table and handed Zenit the title. That's the kind of scalp that breeds belief. The Moscow side have been hard to beat at the Eduard Streltsov Stadium, grinding out draws away to Lokomotiv and Nizhny Novgorod, and that 3-2 cup triumph at Akron shows they can dig deep when the occasion demands. They're not flashy, but they're stubborn, and in a cup tie that's often enough.

Krasnodar, meanwhile, are still licking wounds from that title collapse. They led the standings for long stretches last season before fading on the penultimate matchday — and it was Dinamo who twisted the knife. Since then, they've started the new campaign with a narrow 1-0 home win over Akhmat Grozny, but that's hardly the stuff of champions. Away from the Ozon Arena, they've looked vulnerable: that 1-2 defeat at Spartak and the 1-1 draw at Zenit in the cup suggest they don't travel with the same authority. Momentum is with the home side here.