http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sergei-Ignashevich-c32956 has hailed the Russian national team’s character after winning the latest qualifying match of the World Cup and has lamented the lack of support during the game
Russian national team maintained their hundred percent record at the World Cup qualifiers after claiming their fourth win against Azerbaijan at Luzhniki stadium on Tuesday.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roman-Shirokov-c31645 made no mistake to cut the ball past the opposition’s goalkeeper in style.
In the aftermath of the outcome, Sergei Ignashevich has hailed his side’s never-say-die attitude and character, insisting that they worked so hard to get all three points against Milli Komanda.
CSKA Moscow’s defender revealed that Capello, the manager, did not make changes to the squad and played a similar team that recorded a land mark win against Portugal on Friday.
Ignashevich admitted that the team looked tired and find it difficult to break opposition’s defence at times.
“First 15-20 minutes of the match were extremely difficult as we struggled to read opponent’s game. We made mistakes in simple situations and gave away the ball too easily. Maybe we are still to recover after a hard match against
Portugal.”
“We started the match nervously. But after that minute we boosted the tempo of the game, the scoring chances occurred fairly regularly. We could have scored more goals but as they say, the game is forgotten, and the result remains.”
The Russian Cup winner was quoted as saying.
The Euro 2008 semi-finalists started their campaign on a high with a back-to-back wins against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Israel-c2925 and Portugal respectively. As things stand, they are at the top-spot on their respective group table.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Netherlands-c753 on Tuesday. However, they both
failed to keep a clean-sheet.
Ignashevich went on to question the fans' attitude towards the match, saying that he is really disappointed to see the empty stands in the stadium.
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