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Russia vs Argentina Prediction & Betting tips
As a host, Russia has not had to go through a qualification series, so it is especially appropriate for practice matches to ensure that Russia is a good figure during the World Cup in its own country. On Saturday, Argentina will be able to make it difficult for the World Cup.
Russia :
Due to the fact that Russia is hosted automatically for the World Cup, Stansilav Cherchesov’s equipments only work out practice matches. This is happening with varying degrees of success. Every now and then there are good results, such as a 3-3 draw against Belgium or a 4-2 victory in South Korea, but the Russians have also been attacked by enough sepers. Thus, Qatar, Costa Rica and Cote d’Ivoire were lost.
Last June, Russia completed the tournament round the Confederation Cup, hosted by the host of the upcoming World Cup, the ruling world champion and the champions of the six continents. Russia was classified in a group with Portugal, Mexico and New Zealand. The opening match against low-fly New Zealand was still won, but by defeat against Portugal and Mexico, the tournament for the Russians was already over after the group phase.
After that coach Cherchesov has keyed and changed his team, but he has not yet found the ideal eleven. However, the arsenal of Russian football players from which he can put is also not about quality. Moreover, the accrual of young Russian talents is very limited. For example, for the practice match against Russia, only six of the 23 players under the age of 25, of whom only half have a base at his club. Actually, only Aleksandr Golovin is a talented player who has a great future for himself.
Practically the entire Russian selection is active in our country, most of them at CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow and Zenith St. Petersburg. Only the Russians Roman Neustädter (Fenerbahçe) and Konstantin Rausch (FC Köln) raised abroad are also active abroad.
With the available selection, the survival of the group phase in their own country will already be a very good achievement. Saturday is a good test case to see how the Russians stand up against an opponent with much more quality standing.
Argentina:
For a long time it appeared that the football world should be doing the upcoming world championship without Argentina. Prior to the final round of the qualifying series, the Argentinians were on a sixth pitch, a place that would mean turning off at the end of the ride.
The last game in and against Ecuador had to be won to avoid elimination. It came to a halt: despite the fact that the Argentineans came back after one minute after a hit by former Vitesse player Renato Ibarra, Chilean coach Jorge Sampaoli’s team managed to bend the score. Anyone else than Lionel Messi took his team at hand: with an untouched hat trick he launched his country to Russia.
The qualification and the final third place do not bother the Argentine’s difficult campaign. For example, eighteen matches were scored only nineteen times. Also, Peru (0-0), Venezuela (1-1), Paraguay (0-1) and Ecuador (0-2) did not win teams, which are certainly not stronger than the average World Cup participant. Similarly, it was matched against the trap of Venezuela and even lost from Bolivia.
So there is still enough work at the shop for Sampaoli coach. The question will be how to manage the surplus of world tops in the forefront. Superstar Lionel Messi is the undisputed leader, but he also has Sergio Aguëro, Gonzalo Higuaín, Paolo Dybala, Angel Di Maria and Mauro Icardi. For the match against Russia, Icardi and Higuain are even out of selection.
Lucas Biglio, Marcos Acuna and Javier Pastore are not included in injury.
Russia vs Argentina head to head matches
12.08.09 FI Russia Argentina 2 : 3