At sea, pitching

In order to get to the World Cup, the Russian national team needs to beat Cyprus at home, and not to give in to Croatia at a party

The finish of the Russian team turns out to be a sea-from the Gulf of Finland to the Adriatic, from St. Petersburg, where she will accept the last team of the qualifying group, in Split, where she is already waiting for a real ideal autumn storm. Only one team will survive, because only the winner receives a direct exit to the final part of the World-2022 championship.

There was a chance to solve the problem for the tour to the finish line of the Russian national team, but for this it was necessary in the spring even under Stanislav Cherchesov not to give way to the Slovaks, and already under Valeria Karpina to play houses with the Croats “from the knife” to win. Alas, there was not enough strength, and now two points on the finish line over the main favorite mean almost nothing-the vice-champions of the world of the Croat, no matter what condition they were in, know how to play decisive matches. The option with a passage to the final part through the butt games for both teams also exists, but the penetrating fans have already noticed that "we can’t go to joints."

It is really better not to think about the spare spring option - it relaxes that for the current composition of death is like. The “relaxed” is already enough - it was enough to carefully see how the leading Russian teams played in the last rounds of the internal championships and in the club European Cup arena. The main supplier of personnel to the Pitersky Zenit national team, having cadrely over the Spartak and Dynamo, safely merged in the Juventus Champions League, and Yekaterinburg against the Urals, except that he worked out the number. For “Spartak” and “Lokomotiv” in European competitions, the heroic ones have already become drawn with “Leicester” and “Galatasaray”, respectively, and “Plenipotentiary representatives” were exchanged, playing in full force exactly by time.

With personalities against this background, the forwards do not score, the goalkeepers do not save, the defenders “bring”.

The “best striker” Fedor Smolov has not scored since mid -October, Anton Zabolotny has never been different with bombardry qualities. There are four goalkeepers in the application again, but whoever enters the field on Thursday in St. Petersburg-Marinato Glermas or Matvey Safonov-even the head coach himself still does not know. The main central defender Igor Diveev “attacked” in the match of his CSKA with “Sochi” so that it is just right to go to the reserve. Yes, and the pillar of defense George Dzhikia was not accurately in the game with Lokomotiv. The composition also contains the Zenit four defense schools, but in SPLIT, where you will inevitably have to restrain the crazy pressure of the hosts, you can’t take the number.

With the designers of the game is no better. After an injury, Alexander Golovin spent an incomplete and not the best time for Monaco. Alexei Miranchuk is firmly sitting on a shop in the Italian Atalanta, and the club has long been ready to lease it. Among the creative children playing in Russia, once or twice, it was appreciated-mostly destroyers, and the young Arsen Zakharyan from Dynamo, who revived the attack, alas, was injured.

Valery Karpin stepped on the throat of his own song, calling for “reliable and proven” - regardless of what form they are in, and whether they play at all, as in the case of Alexei Miranchuk. The choice is clear - here is not up to experiments, but not indisputable. I’m not talking about “crying in Dziuba”, which is already starting to subside, well, it was clear that Karpin had an ex-captain, the most clogging and language forward, would not play. The thing generally goes to the fact that in the Split we can see the composition without attackers at all, except that the newborn Ivan Sergeyev will take from the Samara “wings of the Soviets”, and he will shoot in St. Petersburg-if, however, the head coach will give him a chance.

The fact that in St. Petersburg you can properly shake before the decisive meeting in SPLIT is an undoubted good for the coaching staff. True, it is not worth counting on victory with minimal costs - in the classroom, even with the Cyprus team in its current state, Russians cannot be played, this is not our style.

To complete the qualifying tournament on the last line in the table, even behind Malta, is not quite about Cyprus, so the islanders will do everything to at least slap the door.

This is Valery Karpin, too, will undoubtedly take into account - it is only important that his wards also take into account.

While Valery Georgievich works at the moment, not looking far ahead, however, there is nothing left for him. Of course, he already hinted that, in which case, a spare version with spring “joints” is already in his pocket. It was he who caught this "tit in his hands", it seems like he would continue to lead. True, the president of the Russian Football Union, Alexander Dyukov, has already stated that the issue of extending coaching powers will be resolved after November 14, at the end of the group qualifying campaign. That is, as it was planned during the appointment, from which they expected and still expect a miracle.

Karpin does not appeal with wonderful categories, does not seem to be pressed against the wall, he answers more or less acute questions sharply, but even within the norm, but no one wants to publicly receive a tough removal in the Carpinsky style “Well?” To catch Valery Georgievich on some inconsistencies, in fact, is useless-in the end, the game will show everything, and I will say even more-not the game, but the result. Both tomorrow and Sunday. Today, it’s not up to beauties and sophistications, today you just need to survive in circumstances that will definitely not be favorable in the near future.

This is me, as you know, exclusively about football.