European Football Championship 2021 / Russia

This article covers the Russian national team at the Pan-European Football Championship in 2021 . It is the sixth participation for the Russian team.

qualification

Artyom Djuba , Russia's top scorer in qualifying

For the qualification , the Russian team was drawn into the group with Belgium, Scotland, Cyprus, Kazakhstan and San Marino.

Overall, national coach Stanislaw Tschertschessow , who took over the team after the last European Championship, deployed 29 players, but only captain Artyom Dzjuba and Georgi Dschikija took part in all ten games. Goalkeeper Guilherme , Alexei Ionow , Fyodor Kudrjaschow and Magomed Osdojew had nine missions each . Their first international match played Ilsat Akhmetov , Selimchan Bakayev , Dmitri Barinow , Maxim Belyayev , Vyacheslav Karawayev , Nikolai Komlichenko and Fyodor Chalov in the qualifying games.

The top scorer with nine goals was Artyom Djuba. Their first international goal was scored by Georgi Dschikija (to the 1: 4 final against Belgium), Fyodor Kudrjaschow (to the 3: 0 intermediate result) and Anton Mirantschuk (to the 4: 0 intermediate result in the 9: 0 record victory against San Marino) , Daler Kusjajew (to the 1-0 lead), Sergei Petrow (to the interim 2-0 lead) and Nikolai Komlitschenko (to the 5-0 final against San Marino). A total of 14 players contributed to 30 qualifying goals, and the Russians also benefited from two opposing own goals.

Games

The Russians only lost the games against FIFA world ranking leader Belgium, were able to win the other games and qualified as fourth team for the finals on October 13, 2019.

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
03/21/2019	Brussels	Belgium	1: 3 (0: 2)	Youri Tielemans (14th), Eden Hazard (45th, 88th / Elf); Denis Cheryshev (16.)
March 24, 2019	Nur-Sultan	Kazakhstan	4: 0 (2: 0)	Denis Tscheryschew (19th, 45th + 2), Artjom Dzjuba (52nd), Absal Beissebekow (62nd / own goal)
06/08/2019	Saransk	San Marino	9: 0 (4: 0)	Michele Cevoli (25th / own goal), Artjom Dzjuba (31st / Elfm., 73., 76., 88.), Fyodor Kudrjaschow (36th), Anton Mirantschuk (41st), Fyodor Smolow (77th, 83rd) )
06/11/2019	Nizhny Novgorod	Cyprus	1: 0 (1: 0)	Alexei Ionov (38th)
06.09.2019	Glasgow	Scotland	2: 1 (1: 1)	John McGinn (11th), Artjom Dzjuba (40th), Stephen O'Donnell (59th / own goal)
09.09.2019	Kaliningrad	Kazakhstan	1: 0 (0: 0)	Mário Fernandes (89.)
10/10/2019	Moscow	Scotland	4: 0 (0: 0)	Artyom Djuba (57th, 70th) Magomed Osdojew (60th), Alexander Golovin (84th)
October 13, 2019	Strovolos	Cyprus	5: 0 (2: 0)	Denis Cheryshev (9th, 90th + 2), Magomed Osdojew (23rd), Artyom Dzjuba (79th), Alexander Golowin (89th)
11/16/2019	St. Petersburg	Belgium	1: 4 (0: 3)	Thorgan Hazard (19th), Eden Hazard (33rd, 40 '), Romelu Lukaku (72nd); Georgi Djikiya (79th)
November 19, 2019	Serravalle	San Marino	5: 0 (2: 0)	Daler Kusjajew (3rd), Sergei Petrow (19th), Alexei Mirantschuk (49th), Alexei Ionow (56th), Nikolai Komlitschenko (78th)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	10	10	0	0	040: 300	+37	30th
2.	Russia	10	8th	0	2	033: 800	+25	24
3.	Scotland	10	5	0	5	016:190	−3	15th
4th	Cyprus	10	3	1	6th	015:200	−5	10
5.	Kazakhstan	10	3	1	6th	013:170	−4	10
6th	San Marino	10	0	0	10	001:510	−50	00

Finals

Russia had applied with the Gazprom Arena in Saint Petersburg to host three group matches, as well as a round of 16 or quarter-finals, and was also accepted for three group matches and a quarter-finals. As the FIFA world ranking leader Belgium finished the qualification as the best team, Belgium could not be drawn into the groups with Germany, England, Italy and Spain, which also belonged to the six best teams in the qualification. Since in pot 1, in addition to the Belgians, only the Ukraine was placed as the non-hosting team and this could not be in a group with Russia, the Belgians were assigned to the group with Denmark and Russia before the draw, which UEFA as joint team in December 2017 Organizers of a group had been determined. Only Finland newcomer to the European Championship was drawn. In addition, a draw was made for the Russians to play against Denmark in Copenhagen and thus only have two home games. The Russians had already lost both games against the Belgians in qualifying, which increased the negative record against the Belgians to a total of five defeats and two draws. The Russians first played against Denmark and won a friendly 2-0 in Copenhagen in February 2012. There were two European and two World Cup qualifiers against Finland, all of which were won.

If the Russian team were group winners, they would - subject to the retention of the venues - play against the third in Group A, D, E or F in Bilbao , in second place one day earlier in the first round of 16 in Amsterdam against the second in Group B, e.g. . B. Switzerland. If they were one of the top four group thirds, either the group E winner with Spain or the group F winner with Germany, world champions France or defending champions Portugal would be opponents in the round of 16, where they would then play in Bucharest or Glasgow .

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Denmark	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Finland	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Belgium	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Russia	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 12, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Saint Petersburg
Belgium	-	Russia	-: - (- :–)
June 16, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. in Saint Petersburg
Finland	-	Russia	-: - (- :–)
June 21, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in Copenhagen
Russia	-	Denmark	-: - (- :–)

Web links

• uefa.com: Russia