Fabio Capello has left naked in reserve – Kommersant

Football

After the recent scandalous match in Podgorica, which was not abandoned during play due perpetrated Montenegrin fans riot, home friendly game against a team of Russian national team of Kazakhstan has turned peaceful. It Fabio Capello watched the nearest reserve team Russia and hardly fully felt pleased with it: the Russians in no way superior to the opponent and have only faded a draw – 0: 0.

The meaning of yesterday’s game, of course, was not the result. For the match against Kazakhstan Fabio Capello even formed a separate (obviously with an eye on your home and the 2018 World Cup), the list of players to differ materially from that set, which called for the Italian match with the Montenegrins. For example, from yesterday’s meeting were released untouchables Sergei Ignashevich, Dmitry Kombarov, Oleg Shatov, Alexander Kokorin and many others that embody the current team.

But yesterday the bench stadium in Khimki had a lot of young and fresh faces, like Spartacus Denis Davydov, Kazantsev Elmira Elvira, CSKA Dmitry Efremov or a railway Alexei Miranchuka. Their Fabio Capello clearly shore for the second half, although the first minutes of the Russian team had two debutant, and took them to the Italian key positions. So, Ivan Novosel of “growth” took the place of Sergei Ignashevich in the center of defense and Ruslan Kambolov of “Ruby” substituted for the reference hava Igor Denisov. However, in the middle of the first half Kambolova had to retrain as a central defender Vasili Berezutski suddenly asked for a replacement, and was replaced by another debutant – Dynamo Roman Zobnin, who took Kambolova former place in the middle of the field.

Forced permutation and input of the newcomers impact on the coherence of the game against Russia. Russians nothing superior to the same experimental squad of Kazakhstan. To tie the game in the attack, on the edge of which was running on empty Artem Dziuba, did not work. And it was not surprising that the only scoring chance in the first half of the Russians have created with the standard: Alexander Samedov from the corner of the penalty expertly curled the ball into the “nine”, but hit the post.

The second half the Russians, who have joined in the two reservist – Magomed Ozdoev and Igor Portnyagin (replaced flea Dziuba), and all had a defense. The Russian team still lucky that the chief referee Alex Kullback did not notice the goalkeeper Yuri Lodygin handball outside the box, correcting their own same mistake.

Russian team cheer, humbly Demolition strikes an opponent could not even youth that Fabio Capello thrown in for half an hour before the end of the meeting. Several dangerous jerks noted that unless Denis Davydov, but his impulse soon faded in the overall amorphous.

Perhaps it was the most discouraging game the Russian national team under Fabio Capello, after which questions to the Italian only increased.

Petr Kuznetsov