The Russian team is the worst team of Euro 2016

European Championship for Russians turned out to be completely joyless

Russia lost Wales (0: 3) with a devastating score and leaves Euro 2016, scoring only one point in three matches. Formally, this is not the worst result in the tournament, but by the way the team played pale in the euro, she is unlikely to find equal. And given the behavior of fans, Russians can certainly be considered the worst in the tournament. "Medusa" sums up the gloomy results of the euro.

The Russian national team never started playing euros

No one considered the team of Slutsky the favorite of the group, in which, in addition to Russia, England, Wales and Slovakia performed, but still, at least the fans expected in third place. True, even before the start of the injury tournament, key players of the national team received. First, the smart and technical Alan Dzagoev, capable of inventing a dangerous attack from nothing, and then reliable Igor Denisov.

At the first game with England, Slutsky put up three attackers at once - the best scorer of the Russian championship Fedor Smolov, a powerful and diligent Artem Dziubu, quick Alexander Kokorin. Under them was played by a young Alexander Golovin, who was included in the list of the most promising euro players on the eve of the Skysports tournament. None of them (except, perhaps, Dziuba, who at least clung to the balls in the attack zone) did not justify hopes - neither in the match with England, nor in the next games with Slovakia and Wales.

The team not just did not create moments - even the simplest combinations, short renings were not given to players. Perhaps, of the three matches of the group stage, only two attacks of the team were remembered - those in which goals were scored. It is characteristic that not the attackers scored - first the defender Vasily Berezutsky, and then the midfielder Denis Glushakov.

In the center of the field, too, nothing happened. Having lost Igor Denisov, Slutsky put in the supporting zone of the young Golovin and Noystedter’s novel, the player “Schalke 04”, who received Russian citizenship before the euro and did not manage to play with his partners at all. After the first half with Slovakia, the coach took off from the field of both, and set the more attacking Pavel Mamaev and Denis Glushakov. It got better, but not much.

The defense played well only in a match with England. The performance of the defenders in the tournament as a whole speaks of statistics - on average two missed balls for the game. In the third match - with Wales - the fast Welsh attacker was enough for 20 minutes to make an account 0: 2 and fulfill the plan for the game.

And no, the point is not only that Wales has Gareth Bale.

Russian fans - the worst advertising of the World Cup 2018

Well, the Russian team would just play badly. Even worse, people who wanted to fight came to root for her. For those who followed Euro 2016 or at least just the news in the last one and a half weeks, a portrait of the average Russian fan looks like this: a brutal person in a uniform shirt, brutally attacking other fans to the exclamations of “Russians-forward!” Yes, the fans of other national teams were also, to put it mildly, imperfect - fought, shouted and smashed everything around, but most of all scandals were connected with Russian fans. In addition, they behaved aggressively not only in the city, but also in the stadium-because of which UEFA even had to write out the Russian team of conditional disqualification .

Two years before the World Cup in Russia, football culture in the country will be judged by people like Lelik, Brick and Kolya Eye. And such as the head of the All -Russian association of fans, Alexander Shoplygin, whowas detained in France while playing with Wales. He was expelled from France on June 18, butannounced on Twitter that he was returning - and really did it. And then he came across law enforcement agencies.