The Russian national team outplayed Latvians in the debut match Hus Hiddinka

Jus Hiddink made his debut on the post of head coach of the Russian national football team in a control match against the Latvian team. The meeting at the metropolitan stadium "Lokomotiv" abounded in dangerous moments, but the audience saw the only goal only in the time added by the arbitrator. In the last minute, the Russians distinguished the debutant of the national team Pavel Pogrebnyak.

Despite the fact that this was only the first match for a Dutch specialist in a new quality, Hiddink called on his wards to play only for victory, since the new coach is not going to set other tasks for his wards.

Russia: Akinfeev, V. Berezutsky, A. Berezutsky, Radimov, Ignashevich, Izmailov, Aldonin, Arshavin, Kerzhakov, Bilyaletdinov, Anyukov (spare Borodin, Loskov, Boglybnyak, Pavlyuchenko, Semshov, Kolodin, Sychev).

Latvia: Colinko, Stepanov, Astafyev, Zirnis, Lizans, Klyava, Smirnov, Bladeelis, Verpakovsky, Rubin, Prokhorenkov.

Replacements with Russians: Dmitry Loskov changed Radimov, Roman Pavlyuchenko was replaced by Kerzhakov, Igor Semshov instead of Izmailov, Pavel Pogrebnyak instead of Bilyaletdinov.

The first half ended with a zero draw. The Russians, as RIA Novosti noted, had good moments in the course of the first half of the meeting: Alexander Anyukov was dangerously from the limits of the penalty rival to the right, then he filled out a fire on Denyar Bilyaletdinov, who could not hit the empty corner of the Gate of the Latvian team. And shortly before the whistle for a break, Andrei Arshavin was noted from afar, but the goalkeeper of the guests Alexander Colinko, albeit not the first time, but was able to fix the ball.

After the break, Hiddink made two replacements: instead of Radimov, lots appeared, and instead of Kerzhakov, Pavlyuchenko. With the participation of the latter, the Russians created several acute moments at once at the gates of the Latvian team. First, Loskov brought the Spartak one on one on one with Colinko, who went beyond the penalty on time and ahead of Pavlyuchenko, but at the same time unsuccessfully knocked out the ball right on the leg of Arshavin, he tried to hit the gate from a very long distance, but missed. Then the partners brought Pavlyuchenko to the shock position in the penalty area, but the forward struck directly in the goalkeeper. And after a while he was dangerously beaten from afar, but Colinko was able to transfer the ball to the corner.

The guests in the second half also had a very good chance for taking the gate: Juris Lizans organized Marisa Verpakovsky one -on -one exit with Igor Akinfeev, and the defenders of the Russians were mistaken when creating an artificial offside. However, at first, Akinfeev managed to prevent Verpakovsky, who repelled the first blow, and then the Berezutsky brothers knocked out the ball almost from the gate line.

In the 81st minute, a burial appeared on the field, replacing Bilyaletdinov. Forward of Tomsk Tomi, the striker of Tomsk, but he used his chance. After a canopy to the penalty guests performed by Arshavin Pavlyuchenko, he headed the ball to the right to the burial with his head, and he struck exactly in the far corner. Almost immediately after that, the final whistle of the Polish referee of Grzegozh Gilevsky sounded.

Hus Hiddink primarily considered this match as the stage of preparation for the first qualifying match of the European Championship 2008, in the final part of which Hiddink intends to withdraw the national team of Russia. The Russian team will hold its first official match under the guidance of a coach from the Netherlands on September 6 against the Croatian national team in their field.

“In the game with Latvia, first of all, I would like to see a high mood of football players. This will allow you to lay the foundation for future success,” Hiddink said on the eve. “But I actually like to win.”

He was not embarrassed by the fact that he did not have enough time before his friendly fight to completely get acquainted with the football players invited to collect. And also the fact that in such a short time it is unlikely to be able to convey to the players their vision of football, to teach them new tactical schemes.

“We will work out in more detail for the next match with Croatia and strategy, taking into account the opponent,” the Dutchman promised.

The ex-trainer of the national teams of South Korea and Australia after the World Cup, which was held in Germany this summer, has been in Russia more than once and watched the players of the national team in the matches of the Russian championship, but he personally had the opportunity to get acquainted with them only three days before the match with the Latvians in the training base in the Bor near Moscow.