Andrei Arshavin has expressed his satisfaction upon winning the opening Euro 2012 game and has urged his team-mates to keep up the winning spirit against Poland
Russia will lock horns with the Polish national football team in the second group stage match of the Euro 2012 at Stadion Narodowy on Tuesday.
Zenit St. Petersburg midfielder-c*m-winger, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andrei-Arshavin-c5771, has conceded that the Russian national team need to be careful against the Borussia Dortmund trio in the Poland national team.
Łukasz Piszczek, Jakub Błaszczykowski and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robert-Lewandowski-c31255 play for the German side in Bundesliga.
Lewandowski is in scintillating form at the moment, having scored 22 goals in 34 league appearances. The 23-year-old striker, meanwhile, scored in the opening Euro 2012 match against Greece on Friday.
“We had the opportunity to watch the first half between Poland and Greece. The trio set the tone of the team. These are the best players of the Polish national team. In general, I thought that the match will end 1-1.” The UEFA
Cup winner was quoted as saying.
Arshavin, who moved to Zenit from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429 in January, has assured the fans of a similar performance against the White Eagles.
As thing stand, Russia are at the top of the Group A table after winning the opening game against Czech Republic. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Poland-c2983, on the other hand, are struggling to find form after failing to claim all three points against Euro 2004
winner, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Greece-c2908, on Friday.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Czech-Republic-c2882 in the opening group stage game 4-1 on Friday after recording a comprehensive 3-0 win in the third friendly match against Italy at Zurich.
d**k Advocaat, who will take managerial charge at PSV-Eindhoven after the European tournament,
knows that a win in the upcoming match will confirm Russia’s progression into the quarter-finals of the tournament.
Going into the crunch European encounter, Russia might welcome back Sporting Lisbon’s Mara Izmailov to the starting line-up. The 28-year-old star sustained a muscle injury while playing in a friendly match against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Italy-c2926.
If speculations are to be believed, CSKA Moscow’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vyacheslav-Malafeev-c36502 between the bars.
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