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March 26 2011
Russia and Armenia fail to score in Yerevan
Russia has played out a 0-0 draw away in Armenia to stay top of Group
B in Euro 2012 qualifying.
- After surviving some early pressure from the hosts, Russia firmly
grabbed the initiative after 25 minutes, when one of the Armenian
defenders nearly found the back of his own net.
Dick Advocaat's men controlled the game and managed to win several
corners, with all of them being taken by captain Andrey Arshavin.
He once managed to find the head of defender Sergey Ignashevich, but
the ball went centimeters wide of Armenia's far post.
After the restart the hosts nearly caught Russia on the
counter-attack, but Yura Movsisyan failed to beat keeper Igor Akinfeev
from close range.
Arshavin and co created plenty of chances in the second half. Alan
Dzagoev, Roman Shirokov and Arshavin himself had good chances to open
the scoring, but lacked accuracy, leaving home goalie Roman Berezovsky
without any serious work to do, so the game ended 0-0.
The point taken in Yerevan maintains their lead in the qualifying
group. They now have 10 points after 5 games, with Armenia behind,
having 8 points.
Slovakia and Ireland, who face Andorra and Macedonia respectively
later tonight, each have seven points.
http://rt.com/sport/football/armenia-russia-draw-euro2012/
From: A. Papazian
March 26 2011
Russia and Armenia fail to score in Yerevan
Russia has played out a 0-0 draw away in Armenia to stay top of Group
B in Euro 2012 qualifying.
- After surviving some early pressure from the hosts, Russia firmly
grabbed the initiative after 25 minutes, when one of the Armenian
defenders nearly found the back of his own net.
Dick Advocaat's men controlled the game and managed to win several
corners, with all of them being taken by captain Andrey Arshavin.
He once managed to find the head of defender Sergey Ignashevich, but
the ball went centimeters wide of Armenia's far post.
After the restart the hosts nearly caught Russia on the
counter-attack, but Yura Movsisyan failed to beat keeper Igor Akinfeev
from close range.
Arshavin and co created plenty of chances in the second half. Alan
Dzagoev, Roman Shirokov and Arshavin himself had good chances to open
the scoring, but lacked accuracy, leaving home goalie Roman Berezovsky
without any serious work to do, so the game ended 0-0.
The point taken in Yerevan maintains their lead in the qualifying
group. They now have 10 points after 5 games, with Armenia behind,
having 8 points.
Slovakia and Ireland, who face Andorra and Macedonia respectively
later tonight, each have seven points.
http://rt.com/sport/football/armenia-russia-draw-euro2012/
From: A. Papazian