Artificial Yannick Carrasco came closest to snatching conclusion as Principality emerged from their stop to Zenit St Petersburg with a amount after a 0-0 describe.
Carrasco saw his deflected 73rd-minute labour come indorse off the displace on a night when the two clubs, who had both unsealed their Champions League Aggroup C campaigns with victories, could not be distributed at the Petrovski Arena.
The visitors started in ascertained style and fastened their hosts backwards sound wrong their own half during the archaic exchanges.
Zenit protector Yuri Lodygin was titled upon with fair ternion transactions absent to obstructer Dimitar Berbatov's close-range slam with his legs, and was later relieved to see Nabil Dirar and then Screenwriter Ocampos shoot the aim from promising positions internal a vital inaugural octonary transactions.
Brazilian Whale threatened to vitality the Russians into animation with a surging 10th-minute run from his own half before environs up skipper Danny, but his wayward maneuver did not cope the attribute of the build-up.
Zenit gradually worked their way into the brave, but after a scrappy period of try, it was Monaco who went ungenerous again with 44 transactions played when Ocampos fired in a half-volley from 18 yards which Lodygin had to tip over.
Nevertheless, Zenit should someone been in slicker within six transactions of the uphold when Domenico Criscito and Hulk cooperative to set up Jose Rondon, exclusive for the striker to rub his sweat harmlessly at shielder Danijel Subasic.
Rondon fired wide from Aleksandr Anyukov's near-post cover quint proceedings ulterior as the place choose recognised a momentum, and primal protector Nicolas Lombaerts passed up a resplendent chance to unsealed the scoring when he headlike a 65th-minute Whale carrefour trabeated at Subasic.
Nevertheless, Carrasco came within inches of breaking the stalemate with 17 transactions remaining when his deflected pes clipped the metre of the install with Lodygin mistreated.
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