Russian teams will hold two decisive matches in two days

Today, the Russian youth team holds a qualifying match of the European Championship against the Ireland team. The next day, the country's main team holds its game. For both teams, this meeting becomes decisive.

Recall that the Russian "Youth" ranks second in the tenth qualifying group. Andrei Chernyshev’s wards are behind the leader - Switzerland by four points. The Swiss has 16 points after 6 matches, Russians have 12 points, but after 5 meetings. The Irish youth team has only 2 points after 6 matches. The day before, the mentor called the composition that had already arrived in Ireland. In total, 19 players entered the team.

Goalkeepers: Vladimir Gabulov, Igor Akinfeev
Defenders - Anton Rogochy, Alexander Belozerov, Oleg Kuzmin, Denis Evsikov, Alexey Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Denis Kolodin
Midfielders - Alexander Pavlenko, Andrey Arshavin, Igor Denisov, Anton Bober, Sergey Vinogradov, Alan Kusov
Forwards - Spartak Gogniev, Roman Adamov, Ruslan Pimenov, Roman Pavlyuchenko

Meanwhile, the main team of Russia also arrived in Dublin, where he will hold its qualifying match with the national team of Ireland. One of the main characters of the team of George Yartsev is the midfielder of the Spanish "Celta" Alexander Mostovoy. In an interview with RIA Novosti, he said that he was glad to return to the national team after a year break, but he has no time to emotions on this occasion. The last time Mostovoy played for the national team in May 2002 at the LG Cup tournament in a match against the national team of Yugoslavia. Due to the injury received in that game, Mostovova never played at the World Cup.

According to the midfielder, based on the tournament situation of Russians in Dublin, only victory will arrange. “Of course, we know the future opponent thoroughly, and, for sure, another fight with him will be difficult as always. But the fighting spirit in the team is on the rise, and what will happen after the game, we will see,” said the Mostova.

The President of the RFU Vyacheslav Koloskov spoke about the fighting spirit before departure. "In the eyes of the Russian national team players I did not see doomed. I felt that the players were imbued with the responsibility and significance of the upcoming match with Ireland," Koloskov said.

According to the head of the RFU, there were no special installations or pumping. "I just told the guys that the whole country would observe their meeting with the Irish, and we have no right to deceive the expectations of the fans," he said.