Ravil Sabitov about the upcoming match between Russia and Venezuela: There may not be proper playfulness
Soviet and Russian footballer, European champion and winner of the Cup of Russia, authoritative specialist Ravil Rufailovich Sabitov in an exclusive comment "MK-Sport" shared his expectations from the upcoming match of the Russian national team against the national team of Venezuela.
Recall that on November 12, the Russian team in Tashkent defeated the team of Uzbekistan with a score of 3: 2, losing during the meeting with a score of 0: 2. In the next match, Valery Karpin’s wards will play against the Venezuelan national team in Krasnodar on November 17.
Read also the opinion of Ravil Sabitov about the match with Uzbekistan and changes in the game of Alexei Batrakov.
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Ravil Rufailovich, what do you expect from the match between the Russian team and the Venezuelan team?
- You know, at the moment I look at football through the eyes of head coach Valery Georgievich Karpin. This is due to the fact that the task is to see a large number of players and be as prepared as possible by the time we are allowed to play in European football. I want the team to be competitive at this point. There may also be a situation that everyone is talking about out loud – that the players we can play today will not be relevant after a while. Therefore, in principle, he makes the right decision in this regard to view the maximum number of players.
Therefore, we can say that the game may develop in such a way that, perhaps, there will not be the kind of playfulness that, for example, those teams with whom we played. Yes, we are stronger than them in terms of skill, and we beat them with individual skill. But sometimes in terms of play and play, some teams that played against us look a little better than us. This is what we can face in the match against Venezuela – that we will not have the proper playback. As it was in the match against Uzbekistan. As you can see, we didn’t play so well.
