Miodrag Bozovic has hailed his side’s fantastic display in the Russian Cup Round-of-16 against Spartak Moscow at Olimp 2 stadium on Tuesday
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Rostov-c39192 managed to get through to the quarter-final of the Russian Cup after defeating Spartak Moscow on penalty shootouts.
The Selmashi, who were edged out in the semi-final of the tournament by Rubin Kazan last term, will now play the round-of-8 against Terek Grozny.
In aftermath of the outcome, Miodrag Bozovic has hailed his side’s character during the enthralling cup encounter, saying that the Russian outfit deserve to progress to the next round after battering the opponents on spot-kicks.
The Montenegrin tactician went on to shower praise on under-fire goalkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stipe-Pletikosa-c34234, saying that the veteran shot-stopper showed his class against the Moscow-based club.
Bozovic, who blamed the refereeing decisions behind their 1-0 defeat in the Russian Premier League meeting with Kuban Krasnodar, revealed that he is quite satisfied with most of the decisions made by the match officials in the
cup tie at home.
“The main thing is that Rostov progressed to the quarterfinals of the competition. I want to congratulate my team for the win and we should not forget about what Pletikosa. He did a marvellous job. Perhaps, he was our best player
in this match. I'm generally pleased with the game. Now we have to switch to the championship.”
“Refereeing? What can I say? As we all know they have a difficult http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 to do. I am satisfied with most of the decisions they made.” The former Dynamo Moscow man was quoted as saying.
Rostov will now get back to the Russian championship with defending league champions, Zenit St. Petersburg are awaiting them at Petrovsky stadium. Bozovic told his team to gear up for a difficult match on the away turf, saying
that they need to remain calm ahead of the mouthwatering fixture.
Bozovic insisted that the St. Petersburg club are arguably the toughest team in the Russian top division, highlighting their success campaign this term.
The 44-year-old admitted that Zenit have classy players and highlighted http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roman-Shirokov-c31645 as one of the best Russian players he has seen.
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