KAZAN’. Russia tops Slovakia 1-0 after M. Skriniar scored an own goal 24min. It was vastly superior in terms of ball possession (74%).
The match was played at the Kazan’ Arena stadium in Kazan’ on Friday and it started at 6:45 pm local time. The referee was Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz who had the assistance of Pau Cebrián Devis and Roberto Díaz Pérez Del Palomar. The 4th official was José Luis Munuera Montero. The weather was clear. The temperature was quite cold at 0.3 degrees Celsius or 32.61 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 72%.
Match Statistics
Slovakia was in firm control of the ball 74% while Russia was struggling with a 26% ball possession.
Slovakia was more aggressive with 64 dangerous attacks and 27 shots of which 5 were on target. Still, Russia found a way to find the solution to win this contest.
Russia shot 9 times, 3 on target, 6 off target. On the other side, Slovakia shot 27 times, 5 on target, 22 off target.
Cards
Russia received 1 yellow card (D. Barinov). On the other side, Slovakia received 2 yellow cards (J. Kucka and P. Hrosovsky).
Match Timeline
Standings
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Group I
Group J
After this match, Russia will have 16 points like Croatia to stay in the 2nd place. On the opposite side, Slovakia will stay with 9 points to stay in the 4th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the WC Qualification Europe, Russia will play away with Slovenia on the 11th of October with a 2-1 head to head record in favor of Russia (0 draws).
Slovakia will play away agasint Croatia on the 11th of October with a 4-0 head to head stats in favor of Croatia (1 draw).
Russia – Formation
Russia started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).
The manager Valeriy Karpin decided to play with the following team: Matvey Safonov
, Aleksei Sutormin , Igor Diveev , Georgiy Dzhikiya , Sergey Terekhov , Daler Kuzyaev , Dmitriy Barinov , Aleksandr Erokhin , Zelimkhan Bakaev , Fedor Smolov and Arsen Zakharyan .The home team had on the bench: Yuri Dyupin, Rifat Zhemaletdinov
, Dmitri Chistyakov , Fedor Kudryashov , Ilzat Akhmetov, Daniil Fomin , Daniil Glebov, Maksim Osipenko, Arsen Adamov, Guilherme Marinato, Gamid Agalarov and Anton Zabolotnyi .Substitutions
Russia made 5 changes: A. Zakharian for A. Zabolotnyi (46′), F. Smolov for D. Fomin (46′), A. Erokhin for D. Chistyakov (63′), Z. Bakaev for R. Zhemaletdinov (73′) and S. Terekhov for F. Kudryashov (80′).
Best player: Matvey Safonov
The player that probably impressed the most for Russia was the goalkeeper: Matvey Safonov. His rating is 8.10. He performed 5 saves.
Slovakia – Formation
Slovakia started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
On the opposite side, Stefan Tarkovic played with: Marek Rodák
, Peter Pekarík , Ľubomír Šatka , Milan Škriniar , Dávid Hancko , Juraj Kucka , Marek Hamšík , Ivan Schranz , Ondrej Duda , Lukáš Haraslín and Róbert Boženík .They had on the bench: David Strelec
, Vernon De Marco, Matúš Bero, Ladislav Almási , Tomáš Hubočan, Patrik Hrošovský , Dominik Greif, Tomáš Suslov , Martin Koscelník, Erik Jirka, Dušan Kuciak and Albert Rusnák .Substitutions
Slovakia made 5 changes: J. Kucka for P. Hrosovsky (64′), R. Bozenik for D. Strelec (64′), O. Duda for A. Rusnak (64′), L. Haraslin for L. Almasi (80′) and P. Pekarik for T. Suslov (81′).
Best player: Marek Hamšík
The player that probably impressed the most for Slovakia was Marek Hamšík.
His rating is
with 123 passes (88% accurate) and 7 key passes. He performed 15 crosses.Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the WC Qualification Europe.
- Liechtenstein – North Macedonia – 0-4
- Iceland – Armenia – 1-1
- Germany – Romania – 2-1
- Russia – Slovakia – 1-0
- Malta – Slovenia – 0-4
- Cyprus – Croatia – 0-3
- Turkey – Norway – 1-1
- Gibraltar – Montenegro – 0-3
- Latvia – Netherlands – 0-1
- Estonia – Belarus – 2-0
- Czech Republic – Wales – 2-2