http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vladimir-c36322 Abramov has hailed the Russian national team’s terrific start to the World Cup qualifying matches and has urged them to extend their impressive run
Russian national team head coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Capello, showed the world that he does not compromise on quality of the squad after leaving behind some senior players ahead of the qualifying round of the World Cup.
The Italian tactician excluded, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Diniyar-Bilyaletdinov-c11318 from the squad despite knowing that all of these players had remained a pivotal part of Russia’s success.
Capello surprised football analysts after selection controversy-hit Zenit St. Petersburg’s central midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Igor-Denisov-c16694, despite knowing that the 28-year-old has not played a competitive game since the St. Petersburg club’s
3-0 defeat against Malaga CF.
The former AC Milan manager, meanwhile, was little hesitant to bench out-of-form CSKA Moscow’s attacking midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-Dzagoev-c4249, who was arguably Russia’s best player at Euro 2012.
Dzagoev remained on the bench in the qualifying matches against Israel and Portugal after failing to impress in Russia’s 2-0 win in their first group stage game against Northern Ireland at Lokomotiv stadium.
Vladimir Abramov has backed Capello’s decision to prefer younger players in the squad rather than to stick with the old guns.
The Russian football analyst revealed that the Italian tactician made the right decisions to exclude Zhirkov, Pavlyuchenko and Arshavin from the squad as he does not seem to compromise on quality.
“Zhirkov is struggling to maintain his fitness but I think he will be back soon, no doubt. Capello has not found his replacement yet.”
“Arshavin is struggling to rediscover his old form after returning to his parent club from Zenit this summer. He is a great man with a very strong personality. He needs to tune himself up at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 to return to the national team.”
“Pavlyuchenko is doing a great http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 at Lokomotiv Moscow but it looks like he has no desire to return to the national team.” The Russian national was quoted as saying.
Abramov went on to congratulate Russia for their impressive run and urged them to extend their decent run when they host http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Azerbaijan-c2845 on Tuesday.
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