Russian footballers beat Slovakia 1: 0. The meeting took place on Friday evening at the Ak Bars Arena stadium in Kazan as part of the World Cup qualifying round.
An own goal on 24 minutes after Arsen Zakharyan’s cross was scored by the Slovak national team player Milan Skrinjar. According to the results of the rounds of the qualifying tournament in group H with 16 points, Croatia and Russia are leading, Slovenia is in third place (10 points), followed by Slovakia (9), Malta (4) and Cyprus (4).
On Monday, October 11, the Russian national team will play an away match with the Slovenian team.
The President of the Russian Football Union, Alexander Dyukov, stressed that the positive result achieved by the national team was important in the last match: “The game was not easy, there are questions about the quality of the game. You know that there are personnel problems, it was important to win, which we did. I see Karpin’s progress. Today we saw how he promptly reacts to game situations, makes adjustments, this cannot but rejoice, ”TASS quotes Dyukov.
Earlier, the Match TV channel reported that Artem Dziuba refused to invite head coach Valery Karpin to the national team for the matches in October, because he did not get the “optimal shape” for the game. Dziuba expressed the hope that by the November matches he will be in “optimal readiness”. The footballer stressed that he does not stop his participation in the national team and hopes to play in the Russian team more than once “and score more than one goal”.
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