From the first place

The victory over the Andorra national team, which took place last Tuesday, allowed the Russian national team to take first place in the qualifying group and get a ticket to the final part of the European Championship 2012.

There was a minimum number of doubts that Russia will allow an outrage in a home match against an outsider. In addition, even in the event of a defeat, the wards of Dick of a lawyer could finish on the first line - provided that in the parallel match Armenia does not yield to Ireland. Not to mention the fact that a few days ago, having won a visiting victory over Slovakia (1: 0), the Russians guaranteed themselves at least second place.

The question of the winner of the match in Luzhniki, in the stands of which, according to the press service of the Russian Football Union, was located as many as 55 thousand people, was decided by the thirtieth minute, when the score became 3-0 in favor of our compatriots. It was hard to imagine that Andorra could show the miracles of heroism and play all the goals, and then tear out the victory. The owners owned an impressive game advantage and did not give the opponent a chance.

Alan Dzagoev (5th and 44th minutes), Sergey Ignashevich (25), Roman Pavlyuchenko (29), Denis Glushakov (59), Diniusar Bilyaletdinov (78) distinguished themselves as part of the owners.

As a result, the main team of the country finished in the group on the first line, despite the fact that during the qualifying tournament its performance was accompanied by constant criticism from experts and fans.

In the match of other members of the group of Ireland and Armenia in Dublin, the fate of the second place was decided. The national team of Armenia, which scored a decent speed along the tournament distance, needed only victory, because by the last round she lagged behind the opponent one point. However, the team’s plans began to crumble even in the course of the first half, when the guests were in the minority after the goalkeeper’s removal - Roman Berezovsky received a red card by his hand outside the penalty area.

A few minutes before the end of the first half, the defender of the Armenian national team Valery Aleksanyan “distinguished”, who sent the ball into his goal and opened an account in favor of the opponent. In the 59th minute, Irish Richard Dunn doubled the advantage of his team. Three minutes later, the Armenian midfielder Henry Mkhitaryan played one ball, but neither he nor his partners could achieve - 2: 1 in favor of the Ireland team. In another match of the Macedonia group - Slovakia recorded a draw - 1: 1.

The final position in the group B looks like this: 1. Russia - 23 points, 2. Irland - 21, 3. Armenia - 17, 4. Slovakia - 15, 5. Macedonia - 8, 6. Indorera - 0. As part of the qualifying cycle, the Russians won 7 victories, tied twice and once defeated (in their field from Slovakia).

Russia will perform at the European Championship for the third time in a row, and in its entire latest history, she missed the continental championship only once. We are talking about Euro 2000, when the Russians needed to win Ukraine at the finish of the qualifying cycle, but the goalkeeper’s mistake Alexander Filimonov at the end of the match deprived the team of hopes to enter the final part of the tournament. Ukrainians received the right to participate in butt matches, where, by the way, it was also not without a goalkeeper’s mistake - Alexander Shovkovsky missed a very light ball, and as a result, Slovenia ended up a ticket to the euro.

Now Ukraine, like Poland, has not accepted participation in the qualifying cycle as the housewives of the championship. In addition to Ukraine, Poland and Russia, trips on Euro 2012 were Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, England, Denmark and Sweden. Türkiye, Ireland, Estonia, Bosnia and Herzegovin, Portugal, Czech Republic, Croatia and Montenegro will play in butt matches.

The draw of the butt games will be held on October 13 in Polish Krakow, and the matches will be held on November 11/12 and 15. The drawing of the final stage of the European Championship ProDct on December 2 in Krakow.