The Russian national team will hold two friendly matches – against Portugal (in Krasnodar, 14 November) and Croatia (in Rostov-na-Donu 17th). Sportbox.ru recalls the story of meetings with the teams, there was a place where escape from the bench coach, two destroyed and two “cracker».
Russia – Portugal: two wins in nine games
The Russian national team (earlier – the USSR) and Portugal met nine times. On account of our team only two wins and a draw in six matches remaining upper hand opponent (balls – 8:14).
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A curious fact: Russia (USSR) – Portugal did not play together any friendly match. The upcoming meeting will be the first in Krasnodar. Before that, the team had one game in the finals of the World Cup and Europe, six – in the qualifying tournament, and one – in 1972, at the prestigious tournament in Brazil “Independence Cup».
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The first game between the teams of the USSR and Portugal held July 28th, 1966 at the World Championships in England. The teams met in the match for third place at the legendary stadium “Wembley”. With 70,000 spectators, the Portuguese won a difficult victory (2: 1) and got the bronze medal. For both teams, this result is the best in history.
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In 2004, the national teams of Russia and Portugal met in the final tournament of the Euro 2004. In the first rounds, both teams have conceded to their opponents (Spain and Greece respectively), so the match gets the status of the key – the loser leaving the Euro after the third round.
Our team under the leadership of Georgi Yartsev has not coped with the pressure and flow from the tournament hosts the ball is already in the 7th minute (Maniche scored). Became a key episode in the 45th minute when the Norwegian referee Hauge was unfairly dismissed for “foul of last resort,” the goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov, the alleged handball outside the box. As a result, our team lost with the score 0: 2. It is curious that the current goalkeeping coach of the Russian team on 10 November birthday, and he will definitely be something to remember before the next meeting with Portugal.
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The most memorable match between the teams took place in October of the same in 2004.
In qualifying for the World Cup 2006 in Lisbon, our team lost a crushing score of 1: 7. That meeting the journalists dubbed the “night of shame”. Gates defended the Russian Vyacheslav Malafeev. Besides the defeat, the match was remembered by the fact that the head coach of the Russian Georgy Yartsev left the bench long before the final whistle, and after the match said that “it is time to ask and the players themselves for the result, because the level of motivation and attitude of some was extremely low” .
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Two victories were won over by the Portuguese in the qualifying matches for the European Championship 1984 and World Cup 2014.
In April 1983, in “Luzhniki” USSR national team won 5: 0 (double Fyodor Cherenkov), and in October, 2012, the victory brought us only goal of Alexander Kerzhakov at the beginning of the game. And in that meeting was Cristiano Ronaldo, which succeeded brilliantly manage our defenders.
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Last date game between Russia and Portugal June 7, 2013th. Our team lost in Lisbon 0: 1, but the serious consequences of the defeat did not matter, because the squad Fabio Capello created a decent reserve in the group without problems made it to the final stage of the World Cup in Brazil. Once there, and the Portuguese, beaten in the play-offs of the Swedes.
Russia – Croatia until the two “biscuit»
The history of meetings of the Russian team against Croatia is much shorter and limited to only two meetings in qualifying Euro 2008. September 6, 2006 the first team met on the “Locomotive”, and on June 6 2007 – to “Maksimir”. Both matches ended in a draw – 0: 0.
It was the qualifying campaign, when Croatia is literally behind the ears pulled our team to the finals by defeating in the final round England (3: 2), already unmotivated .
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With the Croatian national team at the time I was working Slaven Bilic, who later arrived in the Russian Premier League coach “Locomotive”. But in Moscow lasted only a year Croat …
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