Dynamo Moscow’s Semin tips d**k Advocaat to play Zenit St. Petersburg striker ahead of Lokomotiv Moscow’s Roman Pavlyuchenko in the starting line-up against Greece
Lokomotiv Moscow and the Russian national team striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Kerzhakov-c4569 should not be discounted.
Pavlyuchenko, who returned to Russia after failing to get more first team action at the White Hart Lane, is in scintillating form at the moment. The prolific striker has put in an eye-catching performance against scoring Czech
Republic followed by a virtuoso display in Russia’s 1-1 draw against Poland on Tuesday.
The 30-year-old forward, who entered the pitch as a second-half substitute in the first two group stage games against the Narodaks and the White Eagles, has set up one goal and scored another in the ongoing tournament till date.
Though Zenit St. Petersburg’s Kerzhakov has failed to open his goal scoring account in Europe for his country this term, the former Dynamo Moscow man provided a fabulous assist to CSKA Moscow’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-Dzagoev-c4249 in the opening game
against Czech at Stadion Miejski.
Former Shakhtar Donetsk head coach, Yuri Semin, has conceded that Kerzhakov deserves to retain a place in the starting line-up despite his failure to score a goal in the continental tournament.
“Believe me, Kerzhakov will start scoring a lot of goals after scoring his first goal at Euros. He is working well in the team. He created a lot of moves for the team and I really like his game.”
“We are obviously stronger than Greece: I can say this after comparing each player at each position. I am not expecting a slip up from our side in this meeting. I'm sure that Russia will come out of the group.”
“Czechs gave us a lot of space and we executed decent counter-attacks. But the Poles closed down us, knowing that Russia is waiting for the counterattack. we need to apply appropriate tactics.” The Russian Super Cup winner was
quoted as saying.
As thing stand, Russia atop the Group A with four points, Advocaat’s men need at least one point to reach the round of eight.
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