18 of June. Team Russia played a draw with the national team of South Korea in the match of group tournament of the world Cup.
The meeting was held at the stadium "arena Pantanal" in Cuiaba (state of Mato Grosso), the Meeting ended with the score 1:1.
The starting lineup of the Russian team comes as no surprise. Fabio Capello (head coach of the Russian team) decided not to experiment with either the composition or tactics of the team (a team was a 4-3-3). Incidentally, Capello June 18, celebrating his birthday, he turns 68 years.
About 4-5 thousand people came to support the Russian national team. South Korean fans were so much more. The remainder of the audience – Brazilians who came to the match in the yellow shirt of his national football team. Also the match was attended by numerous tourists. As a result the match was attended by about 38 thousand spectators, empty seats almost were not. The atmosphere was friendly and festive.
The match
The first half the Russian team spent possessing the ball more often rivals, the South Korean team relied more on lightning counterattacks. Been especially active striker son Heung-Min, who tried to amaze gate of Akinfeeva three times. However, no attempt was crowned with success.
The Russian team attacked mainly through the flanks. The most dangerous moment of the first half, the Russian team was able to create a shot by Sergei Ignashevich in the 31st minute with a penalty kick. However, goalkeeper Jung sung-Ryong managed to parry the blow. The South Koreans responded with a powerful kick Koo Cha-Cheol from 20 yards, the ball hitting the leg however, went to the corner.
The South Koreans played hard. So tough that in half an hour managed to catch two yellow cards. "Outstanding" were: Ki sung-Yong and son Heung-Min.
In General, the Russian players in the first half in the midfield was clearly lost to the South Koreans. In the second half to win the "middle" of the Russian team also failed. South Korean players constantly disturb the net with strikes from distance.
On 59 minutes, Capello decided to replace instead of Shatov on the field there was Alan Dzagoev. However, this did not improve the quality of the transmission team. In the 70th minute, the Russian team missed a counterattack, which ended with a powerful blow If the heads of Ho. Akinfeev tried to parry the ball, but failed, he flew into the gate of the Russian team.
In the 71st minute on the field there was Alexander Kerzhakov, who replaced Yuri Zhirkov. In the 74th minute, the Russian team has carried out multi-pass combination, which resulted in the ball hit to Kerzhakovu. With the first blow, the striker could not score, however, the second touch he managed and the ball hit the net.
Kerzhakov scored this goal, repeated the record of Vladimir Beschastnyh by the number of goals scored for the Russian national team the forward "Zenith" has scored 26 goals.
After the restoration of the balance in the account, the Russian team perked up a bit and created some more the dangerous moments, but none of them resulted in a goal. The score remained 1:1.
The best player on the results of the match son Heung-Min.
On 22 of June Russian national team will meet with Belgium at maracanã stadium (Rio de Janeiro). The national team of South Korea will meet Algeria in Porto Alegre.
