Sunday, October 9, 2011

Russia can book tickets for Euro 2012

Quartermaster Russian national team after the weekend can go to Poland and the Ukraine to choose a team site for a training camp for the upcoming European Championships next summer. Russian players, winning a key qualifying match in Slovakia, in fact, came to the tournament, part of the five most significant events in the world. Scheduled for October 11 meeting with Andorra in Moscow - a mere formality: Andorran team, losing nine games in the group with a total score of 1:19 - one of the weakest on the continent, and there is no reason to assume that it is able to win in the Russian capital.Game time match Slovakia - Russia
 
RIA Novosti reported. Grigory Sysoev | Buy this imageSlovakia defender Peter Pekarik (center), Russia midfielder Roman Shirokov (left) and Russian striker Andrei Arshavin (right) in the qualifying match of the European Championship football match between national teams of Slovakia and Russia.Match in Zilina was from the category of those in which the quality of the game takes a back seat. At first comes the ability to show character, to concentrate all efforts on achieving results, which for Russia in this case was a draw.Meanwhile, installation of the draw is eliminated. This rate, in most cases was a bit. Russia in Slovakia has not played for a draw. Our team from the first minutes of the meeting outlined the scenario in which she was going to act in Zilina: strictest game on the defensive, controlling midfield and attacking thrusts, restraining the Slovakian national team. This was probably the best option - keep the tension Slovakia attacks and threats of attacks.Editors' R-Sport "had a text broadcast of the match Slovakia - Russia>>Everything turned out as intended. Dangerous moment at the gate Russian players have managed to avoid, in center field advantage, there were noticeable (except, perhaps, ending the first half and the last minutes of the match), the attack could bring the matter to the outputs on the gates. In one scene, a passage Arshavin goal was to end, but the gate had saved brilliantly played, Jan Mucha. In another Roman Shirokov did not get into the gates of the advantageous position.


From a command of the Russian team dropped games at first Alan Dzagoev, often mistaken for transfers and lagged behind the developments. During the break, as far as we know, Dick Advocaat, had discussed with his aides the possibility of replacing Dzagoeva early in the second half, but fortunately for the team, did not, and Dzagoev scored the only goal of the match. Almost immediately, Roman Pavlyuchenko had the second goal, but the judge erroneously recorded from the Russian striker offside.One can not disagree with the Russian national team midfielder Roman Shirokov, who said after a victorious match, he and his partners had "not very good game." But in vain Shirokov called with the national team of Slovakia "farm." He downplayed the significance of Žilina thereby win. "The farm," moreover, in contrast to South Africa is not caught in the Russian national team, played (and bad) on the last World Cup and a year ago has beaten the Russian players in Moscow. The level of the Slovak team is comparable to the level of Russian. Only a few more Russian football team of colleagues from Slovakia in the class.Game time match Slovakia - Russia
 
RIA Novosti reported. Grigory Sysoev | Buy this imageDefender Martin Skrtel Slovak and Russian midfielder Alan Dzagoev (left to right) in the qualifying match of Euro between national teams of Slovakia and Russia.For the first time since 2001, the Russian team entered the finals of a major tournament without the play-offs. A decade of the team was accompanied by complexity. In 2004, she appeared at the European Championships in Portugal after Wales won a butt meetings.
Two years later, the Russian national team missed the World Cup in Germany. Two years later she went to the Euro-08 only with the help of the Croats, who beat England in London. Last year, the Russian football players was not among the participants in the World Cup in South Africa: they lost the play-offs in Slovenia.Today there were no additional experience. Do not, however, forget about two important fact. Group "B", which is left to play one round, can not be classified as strong in composition. Absenteeism from it would become for the Russian team in the disaster. In addition, the Russian team immediately after the Tuesday game against Andorra to begin a gradual rejuvenation of the composition. The average age of coming out on the field in Žilina players - 29 years. The team is not football, "middle-age class." The youngest - Dzagoeva - 21. Between him and the next "youngest", 27-year-old Igor Denisov, lacks the necessary layer of the players, aged from 23 to 26-years-old.It is difficult to say whether Advocaat thinks about the need to update (in any case - not radical, but gradual), but the reality of the situation is that the currently available players at his disposal for several years to play for Russia (almost all of them have been played by Gus Hiddink, who came to the team in 2006), and a year will be exactly one year older.