Calling for the Don

In the match with Moldova, the coach of the Russian national team Fabio Capello simply demonstratively made the wishes of the public. And just as indicatively failed the game.

In the match with Moldova, the coach of the Russian national team Fabio Capello simply demonstratively made the wishes of the public. And just as indicatively failed the game ...

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When you do not expect anything good, but reality surpasses the most pessimistic expectations, you still feel deceived. I did not share the optimism of most experts after a very dull noby team of Russia in Sweden, rare glimpses did not convince, but what happened to the Fabio Capello team in Moscow in the third round of the Euro 2016 qualifying tournament, plunged into a stupor. The owners in the presence of more than 30 thousand spectators at the new Spartak stadium “Opening Arena” held one of the worst, if not the worst match at Capello, and, perhaps, in general in recent years.

In the rivals there was an outsider (and this is if there is Liechtenstein) of the Group G - the Moldova team, a team of the third European echelon level, which Russians have been given to the traditional (already ninth in a row with an Italian specialist) a draw with a traditional account 1: 1. These numbers shone on the scoreboard for the fifth time in the last seven official matches of the national team. I will say this: it would be better to lose, at least the situation would become clearer.

Now everyone, of course, is unhappy with varying degrees, but the song sounds the same: the qualification tournament has only started, the formula for entering the final part is even too sparing, you can achieve the desired, finishing in third place, and Russia, of course, will achieve its own country. With maximum directness, a general thought was expressed by the Minister of Sports and still the most influential person in Russian football Vitaly Mutko: “We will go out to the euro, I guarantee! But what will we do there? "

I would not in a hurry in the place of Vitaly Leontyevich with a guarantee.

... At the time of the end of the second round and the beginning of the third, the standings, at least six of the nine qualifying groups, really looked more than strange: the leaders of Iceland, Wales, Slovakia, Poland, North Ireland and Austria were leaded. The prestige of the monsters, and then not without difficulty and without brilliance, was supported only by the leading groups of England and Italy. Many favorites did not go well, and the newly made world champions, the Germans lost the dry in Poland, and for the first time. The result of the match in Reykjavika looked even more amazing, where the stunningly starting Icelanders of stone on stone did not leave from the bronze medalists of the Brazilian mundial - the national team of Holland.

However, it never occurred to anyone to be horrified by the Polish fiasco of the Joachim Lev team, to sing the Slovenians who had lost Slovakia, and even two defeats of the Swiss, as well as the Bosniy people weaved, did not scold much. After the World Cup, authoritative teams, as a rule, come to their senses for a long time, for various reasons are updated and rebuilt, and relatively weak, missing the main tournament of the four years and therefore hungry, catching the moment - this is their time. But few doubt the fact that the favorites will correct the affairs and bring tables into a more or less familiar look in the near future. In the absence of half the football players in Warsaw, the same German national team remained itself, controlling the ball four times more than the owners, and having inflicting almost three dozen blows on the goal of the goalkeeper. Not lucky, it happens, it did not smell with hopelessness. It is more difficult with Holland, but these are the problems of Hus Hiddinka and his wards.

Not everyone remembers about Russia that she participated in the World Cup. But she was attributed to the favorites of the beginning of the qualifying tournament: the group is one of the weakest compositions, the calendar is quite successful, the desire to rehabilitate in front of the fans is allegedly huge, Fabio Capello is not resigned and, despite criticism, is filled with optimism. True, they do not pay money for four months, but, as he put it, "this is the last thought that excites me."

Our team received more time for preparation than any other, Sweden, meanwhile, lost its leader Zlatan Ibragimovich, but the Russians did not play more to the Frendes Arena. Well, Moldovan, on the eve of the house, who lost to the Austrian national team, the owners should have been if not outplayed, then at least run and suppress. It was at the exit of the Russian national team that there were problems with the former Soviet republics, and at home in the entire post -Soviet history there was only one draw, although commemorative - with Ukraine at the end of the last century. In general, taking into account the Capelly Pragmatism, the starting home victory over Liechtenstein and brought from Stockholm with a point, it remained to consolidate the leadership and a month before the visit to Vienna to feel calm.

The fact that injuries will not let Oleg Shatov go to the field, Dmitry Kombarov and Alexander Kokorin, of course, added problems, but not so much to panic - the rival level, it would seem, allowed me to be painlessly replaced.

... Capello went on. He replaced more than half of the composition that entered the field in Stockholm. And he did, in my opinion, not just just because he elementarily underestimated the team of Alexander Kurtyan, the basis of which was the players who performed or performed in the Russian championship.

Capello in such a very risky way talked with the leadership and the football community, giving a very intelligible signal: either they trust and are treated in civilized (salaries are also applied), or you will receive what you have received.

He, for almost all that has long become a common place of the public’s wishes, emphasized indicatively - he carried out. Do you want Dzagoev to come out at the heart: please. You want the defense to be updated: here you have a grenade and a lousy in the starting lineup. Say that Ionov is in good shape, and Cheryshev Faeeit in Vililareal - so they are at the edges of the attack. And Dziuba at all without question, see what I believe? Let them show what they are capable of, it is possible with Moldova.

It turned out - it is impossible. Somewhere by the end of the first half, the master seemed to realize that he had outplayed, even played. He certainly did not want to give in to - he just wanted to explain on his fingers with whom he had to work. But the Moldovans did not know about this, they went out to fight and take the first points. When Gatskan missed the empty gate at the outcome of the first half of the Rostovites, which was the only real goal, Fabio Capello panicked. It is impossible to explain to the replacement of Kerzhakov with Ozdoev, Cheryshev with a practically debutant, and Ionov is completely explained to the defender of the pins. The Moldova team stood a wall, the Russian team timidly knocking on it.

The new leader of Artem Dziuba, who fell in the penalty area and himself, contrary to the demand of Capello, who went to the “point”, was exclusively on his own initiative. A minute after the game could be calmly brought to an undeserved victory, the captain of the Moldova national team Alexander Epuryan, after serving a corner with a slight nod from the experienced Sergey Ignashevich, sent a ball to the left from Igor Akinfeev’s corner. And all, there was nothing more.

So now about guarantees. If in a month this is not clear which team with clearly offended and not really understanding what to do now, the head coach will lose to the leader of the Austria group, then Russia will most likely drop a line below. If the matter goes on, then the third position will be under a real threat.

And then Fabio Capello will have to immediately resign this season. It will not be possible to agree on a kind of one in a kind, you will have to pay compensation for a crazy contract, which is designed until the 18th year-the size of a possible penalty would be enough for the construction of a completely modern base for all football teams of Russia and a new coach would be enough for a salary.

But here it will no longer be up to savings.