European Football Championship 2012 / Russia

This article covers the Russian national football team at the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine . The Russian team took part in a European Championship finals for the fourth time and was eliminated in the preliminary round for the third time. The predecessor, the Soviet team , took part six times and, together, the two teams are the most frequent participants after Germany. In 1960 the USSR won the title at the first event, still known as the "European Cup of Nations".

qualification

Russia completed the qualification for the European Championship in qualifying Group B .

Games

date	Venue	host	guest	Result	Goal scorers
09/03/2010	Andorra la Vella Estadi Comunal d'Andorra la Vella	Andorra	Russia	0: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1, 0: 2 Pogrebnjak (14., 64./E.)
07.09.2010	Moscow Lokomotiv Stadium	Russia	Slovakia	0: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Stoch (27.)
10/08/2010	Dublin Aviva Stadium	Ireland	Russia	2: 3 (0: 2)	0: 1 Kerhakov (11th), 0: 2 Dzagojew (29th), 0: 3 Shirokov (50th), 1: 3 Keane (72nd), 2: 3 Long (78th)
10/12/2010	Skopje Philip II Arena	North Macedonia	Russia	0: 1 (0: 1)	0: 1 Kerhakov (8th)
03/26/2011	Yerevan Hanrapetakan Stadium	Armenia	Russia	0-0
06/04/2011	St. Petersburg Petrovsky Stadium	Russia	Armenia	3: 1 (1: 1)	0: 1 Pizzelli (25th), 1: 1, 2: 1, 3: 1 Pavlyuchenko (26th, 59th, 73rd / E)
02.09.2011	Moscow Olympic Stadium Luzhniki	Russia	North Macedonia	1: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Semschow (41st)
09/06/2011	Moscow Olympic Stadium Luzhniki	Russia	Ireland	0-0
07/10/2011	Žilina Štadión pod Dubňom	Slovakia	Russia	0: 1 (0: 0)	0: 1 Djagoyev (71st)
10/11/2011	Moscow Olympic Stadium Luzhniki	Russia	Andorra	6: 0 (4: 0)	1: 0, 4: 0 Dzagojew (5th, 44th), 2: 0 Ignashevich (26th), 3: 0 Pavlyuchenko (30th), 5: 0 Gluschakow (59th), 6: 0 Bilyaletdinov (78th) )

table

space	team	Sp	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Russia	10	07th	02	01	17: 04	+13	23
2.	Ireland	10	06th	03	01	15: 07	+ 08	21st
3.	Armenia	10	05	02	03	22:10	+12	17th
4th	Slovakia	10	04th	03	03	07:10	- 03	15th
5.	North Macedonia	10	02	02	06th	08:14	- 06	08th
6th	Andorra	10	00	00	10	01:25	−24	00

The top scorer was Roman Pavlyuchenko with four goals.

preparation

The Russian team played three test matches just before the European Championship: on May 25, they played for the first time in Moscow against Uruguay (1-1, goal: Alexander Kerhakov ), on May 29 in Nyon against Lithuania (0-0) and on May 1 June in Zurich against Italy (3-0, goals: Alexander Kerschakow and 2 × Roman Schirokow ), the only test match in which two EM participants competed against each other.

Games of Russia

EM preliminary round

At the draw, the Russians, Greece and the Czech Republic were drawn to the host Poland, who was the head of group A. There has only been one game against the Czech Republic so far: in the European Championship preliminary round in 1996 , the two separated 3: 3, with the Czechs reaching the quarter-finals by 3: 3 in the 90th minute. Russia last played against Poland on August 22, 2007. In Moscow they drew 2-2. The overall balance against Poland was even with one win, one draw and one defeat before the European Championship. Against Greece the record is positive with 3 wins, 5 draws and 1 defeat before the EM. The two last met before the European Championship on November 11th, 2011 in Piraeus and separated 1: 1. At the last European Championship, Russia won 1-0 against Greece in the preliminary round and four years earlier Russia was the only team that could win against the eventual European champions, but the 2-1 was no longer important for reaching the quarter-finals. The Russians had already retired by then.

Preliminary group A:

All games take place in Poland .

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	004: 500	−1	06th
2.	Greece	3	1	1	1	003: 300	± 0	04th
3.	Russia	3	1	1	1	005: 300	+2	04th
4th	Poland	3	0	2	1	002: 300	−1	02
The direct comparison is decisive for placing 2 and 3 (see mode ).

Friday, June 8, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Wroclaw
Russia	-	Czech Republic	4: 1 (2: 0)
Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Warsaw
Poland	-	Russia	1: 1 (0: 1)
Saturday, June 16, 2012, 8:45 p.m. in Warsaw
Greece	-	Russia	1: 0 (1: 0)

Squad

On May 11, 2012, national coach Dick Advocaat , who resigned after the European Championships - as announced before the European Championships - named the provisional squad for the 2012 European Football Championship . On May 20, the last injured Vasily Berezuzki was removed from the squad. On May 24th, Roman Schischkin had to be removed from the squad due to gastritis . In the Russian squad, as in the Dutch squad, with 13 players each, there were most players with European Championship finals experience.

Jersey no.	player	society	International matches	Gates	Date of birth	EM games	Sp.	Gates	red	G / R	yellow
goalkeeper
01	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	52	0	04/08/1986	5 (2008)
16	Vyacheslav Malafeyev	Zenit St. Petersburg	28	0	03/04/1979	2 (2004)	3
13	Anton Schunin	Dynamo Moscow	2	0	01/27/1987
Defense
02	Alexander Anyukov	Zenit St. Petersburg	68	1	09/28/1982	1 (2004), 5 (2008)	3
12	Alexei Berezuzky	CSKA Moscow	51	0	06/20/1982		3
04th	Sergei Ignashevich	CSKA Moscow	78	5	07/14/1979	4 (2008)	3
19th	Vladimir Garnet	Dynamo Moscow	0	0	05/22/1987
15th	Dimitri Kombarov	Spartak Moscow	5	0	01/22/1987
21st	Kirill Nababkin	CSKA Moscow	1	0	09/08/1986
03	Roman Sharonov	Rubin Kazan	8th	0	09/08/1976	2 (2004)
05	Yuri Schirkow	Anzhi Makhachkala	55	0	08/20/1983	5 (2008)	3				1
midfield
07th	Igor Denisov	Zenit St. Petersburg	29	0	05/17/1984		3				1
17th	Alan Dzagoyev	CSKA Moscow	23	7th	06/17/1990		3	3			2
22nd	Denis Glushakov	Moscow locomotive	10	1	01/27/1987		1
09	Marat Izmailov	Sporting Lisbon	35	2	09/21/1982	2 (2004)	2
06th	Roman Shirokov	Zenit St. Petersburg	25th	7th	07/06/1981	1 (2008)	3	1
23	Igor Semschow	Dynamo Moscow	57	3	04/06/1978	1 (2004), 5 (2008)
08th	Konstantin Syrjanow	Zenit St. Petersburg	52	7th	05.10.1977	5 (2008)	2
attack
10	Andrei Arshavin	Zenit St. Petersburg	74	17th	05/29/1981	3 (2008)	3
11	Alexander Kerhakov	Zenit St. Petersburg	64	19th	11/27/1982	1 (2004)	3
18th	Alexander Kokorin	FK Dynamo Moscow	6th	0	03/19/1991		1
14th	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Moscow locomotive	50	20th	December 15, 1981	5 (2008)	3	1
20th	Pavel Pogrebnjak	Fulham FC	33	8th	11/08/1983		1				1
Trainer
	Dick Advocaat	Netherlands			09/27/1947	5 (2004)	3

1. ↑ ^{a b} as of June 16, 2012 (after the game against Greece)
2. ↑ Status: Before the start of the European Championship finals
3. ^ As coach of the Netherlands

Individual evidence

1. ↑ uefa.com: Advocaat resigns after the EURO
2. ↑ FIFA.com: "Sbornaja" with ex-Stuttgart Pogrebnjak
3. ↑ Russia goes to the EM without Berezutsky
4. ↑ FIFA.com: Russia without defender Shishkin for EM