Battle for the rating and basket

On September 3, the Russian national football team starts in the eccentric and updated League of Nations. First meeting - with Serbs

Our best football players, if anyone forgot, did not put on the uniform with the two -headed eagle for almost a year. The last official match Stanislav Cherchesov was held in November, when 5 goals from San Marino were shipped at a party. And then Koronavirus canceled Euro 2020, having deprived fans and actors in the Bouts of the summer holiday. It seemed that the League of Nations would also be canceled. But the officials considered that it was necessary to return the old -world squads to the arenas. Moreover, the draw of this competition, which sent Russia to the company to Serbs, Turks and Hungarians, took place in March.

By the way, the head coach of the national team said at the same time that he did not understand the regulations and generally knows only that the tournament through which any team has a chance to break through to the European or World Forum pays for UEFA. In the same way, the meaning of a new and confusing multi -stage competition, designed to replace, in fact, comradely matches, understand almost all 55 participants. Yes, and the authors of the script themselves and, in particular, Michel Platini are stuck, explaining the intricacies of a cunning football play and the order of distribution of bonuses ...

Let me remind you that the Portuguese won the first draw, and Dziuba and his partners finished in their group after the Swedes and remained wintering in the second largest league B ( all residents are divided into 4 echelons, according to the rating ). Therefore, they will not be able to compete for the trophy in any way, but, having taken 1st place in the quartet, Russians will join the next season to an elite party of 16 prefabricated. And most importantly: they are highly likely to improve their own rating-and then, when drawing to the qualifying fights of the World Cup-2022, they will jump into the basket number two and thus protect themselves from meetings with the grads. The stretching of hot Qatari balls is expected after the autumn matches of the League of Nations, and it would be nice to immediately start laying rivals on the shoulder blades and type the necessary glasses in the piggy bank.

To this end, Stanislav Cherchesov called trusted comrades to the collection. There is only one debutant - midfielder Andrei Mostova from Zenit. True, the team will not help two injured legionnaires - “Frenchman” Alexander Golovin and “Spaniard” Dmitry Cheryshev. For the same “hospital” reason, the fans will not see the 15 goals of striker Evgeny Lutsenko and the midfielder Alexei Miranchuk, who “Lokomotiv” sold in Atalanta for 14.5 million euros, will not see 15 goals in the last championship.

It is noteworthy that instead of the striker of the Tula Arsenal, Stanislav Salamovich invited Spartak Alexander Sobolev, who did not fall into the initial list due to the conflict with Artem Dziuba. Men, oddly enough, did not share Alexander Kokorin, who continues to treat the ankle. And the following happened. Sobolev in the May program of Evgeny Savin “Krasava” accused the Zenit leader of which he publicly did not support Alexander Kokorin during the scandalous process. Dziuba, to put it mildly, was surprised, and during the semifinals of the Cup of the country, Goleadors clashed on the field not only in a verbal skirmish. Moreover, the Zenitovets assured that they were butt and cursed not because of Kokorin, although he called Sobolev a fool who did not understand real friendship. “I heard the ringing, but doesn’t know where he is,” the captain of the national team summed up after the fight.

The ringing also flew to the ears of Cherchesov, who decided not to violate the microclimate in the team and hold Sobolev in the next reserve.

However, then he advised the young fighter to call the leader and resolve the situation. Alexander obeyed, the debaters held a telephone round and reached a consensus, and the coaching staff, promptly reacting to a peace treaty, opened the door to the Spartak.

In general, it would now be curious to observe two brawls on the tip of the attack, given that the finites of the railway worker Fedor Smolov and Dynamo Nikolai Komlichenko are not yet impressive. However, Cherchesov has a lot of other problems. In the center of midfield, you will have to do not only without Golovin, but also without Barinov. Anton Miranchuk still does not know to the level of his older brother. Yuri Gazinsky, who returned to the national team, was far from his best form, and Daler Kuzyaev, at the moment without a club, actually did not have a game practice. Like the defender Roman Noystedter, whom Cherchesov discharged from Turkey to Novogorsk in order to support and help find the necessary condition. In short, you will have to break your head over who to detach in the defense of Mario Fernandez and George Gikia.

It is worth worrying around the last line. After all, the main goalkeeper, Marinato Guillerme, is not too reliable now. Perhaps you should entrust the gates to Anton Shunin, who did not miss in this championship in three matches at the Dynamo native stadium, where he knows every grass, not a single ball?

It is there, on Thursday at 21.45, that the battle of Russia with Serbia will begin. And on September 6, the national team will fight on the Pushkash Arena with the Hungarians. We wish our guys good luck and we will be afraid for them on the first channel.