Evgeny Lovchev has urged the Russian national team to play more offensive football at World Cup after narrow victories against Portugal and Azerbaijan at Luzhniki stadium
Famous football expert, Evgeny Lovchev, has congratulated the Russian national team on winning their fourth qualifying match of the World Cup against Azerbaijan at Luzhniki stadium on Tuesday.
He credited CSKA Moscow and the Russian national team’s goalkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Igor-Akinfeev-c16676, for his scintillating displays in the qualifying competition, highlighting him as one of the best shot-stoppers in the world.
Akinfeev set a new record on the amount of time for not conceding a goal in the national team. The player defeated Zenit St. Petersburg’s Vyacheslav Malafeev’s record of 653 minutes without a conceding a goal.
As things stand, Russia are at the top-spot on their respective group table with 12 points as they claimed back-to-back wins against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Israel-c2925, Portugal and Milli Komanda respectively.
Lovchev went on to insist that he was unhappy with the actions of the Russian players in the positional attack, saying that the fans did not come to see the match in large numbers due to the fact that they play defensive football.
"I cannot say that they had a bad game but they were too defensive. The team looked confuse probably because they had a tough match against Portugal recently. They lacked confidence, speed, especially towards the end of the first
and in the early second half.”
“But in such matches when the home team fail to attack, they had to defend properly. I am glad they did not make defensive mistakes in the end. I they need to improve.” The Soviet Top League winner was quoted as saying.
Lovchev revealed that the match http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Greece-c2908 at Euro 2012 back in June. He urged Capello’s men to extend their winning run when they play the remaining qualifying
matches next month.
Speaking on Aleksandr Kerzhakov’s performance in the tournament, Lovchev revealed that the former Dynamo Moscow striker needs to improve his game or he will lose his place in the starting line-ups.
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