Euro 2009 Preview – Russia
May 30, 2008
The majority of Guus Hiddink’s squad is based in Russia, many from UEFA cup winners Zenit St Petersburg. There has been a blow the squad with striker Pavel Pogrebnyak of Zenit picking up an injury in the friendly match with Serbia. The knee injury make the striker a doubt, he scored 10 goals in Zenit’s UEFA cup campaign.
At 25/1 they are outsiders, in Group D with Sweden, Spain and Greece they do have a good chance of getting through the group stages behind Spain.
It’s wouldn’t be surprising if they did with the recent upturn in the domestic league in Russia thanks to large investments.
Russia Full Squad
Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeyev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeyev (Zenit St Petersburg), Vladimir Gabulov (Amkar Perm)
Defenders: Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA), Vasili Berezutski (CSKA), Aleksei Berezutski (CSKA), Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit), Denis Kolodin (Dynamo Moscow), Renat Yanbayev (Lokomotiv Moscow), Roman Shirokov (Zenit)
Midfielders: Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (Lokomotiv), Yuri Zhirkov (CSKA), Igor Semshov (Dynamo), Dmitri Torbinsky (Lokomotiv), Vladimir Bystrov (Spartak Moscow), Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit), Sergei Semak (Rubin Kazan)
Forwards: Andrei Arshavin (Zenit), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Zenit), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak), Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv), Roman Adamov (FK Moscow), Ivan Saenko (Nuremberg)
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