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Zenit without key players in new season

Xinhua, July 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

The team manager of the Russian Premier League side Zenit Mircea Lucescu thinks that the playstyle of the team will completely change without Hulk and Axel Witsel, TASS reported on Wednesday.

According to Lucescu, the FC Zenit is now left without the key players of the previous football season: Danny is injured, Hulk signed a contract with the Chinese FC Shanghai SIPG and Witsel is waiting for a transfer. Thus the team needs two or three new players.

Lucescu has already said earlier that Zenit's playstyle will change completely without Hulk, who was the main attack force of the team for years.

The Romanian was assigned as the manager of Zenit in the end of May, replacing Andre Villas-Boas. Endit