"Olympiacos" is ready to give a fight "Rubin" in the Europa League, despite the frost

On Tuesday, Rubin is the first among Russian clubs will resume the European Cup season. The wards of Kurban Berdyev in the home match of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Europa League will meet with the current Greece champion Olympiacos. Due to the cold, the match will be held in the middle of the day, and it will not be held in Kazan, but in the capital's "Luzhniki".

The match is still in question: although in the UEFA regulations there is no point prohibiting playing games at a certain temperature, before the start of the game, the chief referee may decide to cancel it - there are recommendations not to hold matches at a temperature below minus 15 degrees. In the Russian capital, on average, on average, minus 15 is expected during the day.

At the pre-match press conference, the team mentors paid a lot of attention to the extreme conditions in which they have to fight their wards.

“We definitely never played in this weather,” Ernesto Valverde admitted the steering “Olympiacos”. “Our main goal is to play. We can’t think about the cold, all thoughts are only about the match. Those football players who will be on the bench can freeze, but not those who will be on the field. In the courtyard of February, this is Moscow, Russia, we could not expect another weather, we need to play.”

Berdyev, in turn, stated that he would against the match at temperatures below minus 15 degrees. “Of course, it is impossible to play in such weather, this is stress for the body. The weather conditions are difficult. Last year with Twent, they played (0: 2) in the same conditions, would not say that they give an advantage to some team,” the mentor noted.

For the past two months, Rubin has not held official meetings. Kazan began to prepare for the Europa League on January 10 in Turkey, and then continued in Spain, where they held three games as part of the Marbella Cup tournament.

We also note that in the Moscow match, the main goalkeeper Sergei Ryzhikov will not help the nominal owners, who earned the removal in the last match of the group stage against Paok. The response will be held on February 23 in Piraeus.