Former CSKA midfielder has shared his expectations of the World Cup qualifying match between http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Capello’s men and the Israel national football team
Sergei Filippenkov believes that Zenit St. Petersburg’s latest acquisitions, Hulk and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Axel-Witsel-c7029, will certainly help the defending Russian Premier League champions in the domestic and UEFA Champions League campaign.
The St. Petersburg club invested approximately hundred million Euros on Hulk and Witsel. Filippenkov has admitted that Zenit have bolstered their attacking ranks by signing the Primeira Liga duo.
“Football is a game of Variation. I am expecting Spalletti to make gaming changing schemes for an interesting permutation to make better use of new players. But, of course, given the aged squad he had at Petrovsky, he needed replacements.”
“The club paid an obscene amount of money. I do not think http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Hulk-c16436 or Witsel will be playing on the amount that was paid for them. I mean the price for the quality. However, they will make the team stronger with increased competition. I
hope they remain fit this season.” The former CSKA Moscow man was quoted as saying.
While Filippenkov is happy for the Russian outfit for signing extreme talents this summer, the 41-year-old has warned http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Kerzhakov-c4569 to work harder in training to impress Spalletti if he is to play every week.
Commenting on the upcoming World Cup qualifying match against Israel national football team, Filippenkov has urged the Euro 2008 semi-finalists to win the match against the blue and white after their earlier win in the opening
group stage game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Northern-Ireland-c2972.
The former FC http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 Tula midfielder went on to lament Andrei Arshavin’s absence from the squad, saying that the Russian striker was rightly left out of the squad as the 31-year-old is struggling to rediscover his old form.
Arshavin, who captained his side at Euro 2012 in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032, will not play in the World Cup qualifying matches, as the Russian Cup winner failed to impress Capello following a below par European campaign in July.
Filippenkov urged Arshavin to start scoring goals for his country in a bid to retain a place in the squad.
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