Russia and the Czech Republic will face in Group A Euro 2012 as the second game after the opening match between Poland and Greece. This games kickoff on Friday, 8 June 2012 8.45 PM Poland Time.Russia consist of talented squad that played very well in the qualifying round where they won seven of 10 games. This Good records tried to maintained by Dick Advocaat, he hopes his players can show good performance against Czech republic.
Russian squad For Euro 2012 :
1 GK Igor Akinfeev
13 GK Anton Shunin
16 GK Vyacheslav Malafeev
2 DF Aleksandr Anyukov
3 DF Roman Sharonov
4 DF Sergei Ignashevich
5 DF Yuri Zhirkov
12 DF Aleksei Berezutskiy
15 DF Dmitri Kombarov
19 DF Vladimir Granat
21 DF Kirill Nababkin
6 MF Roman Shirokov
7 MF Igor Denisov
8 MF Konstantin Zyryanov
9 MF Marat Izmailov
17 MF Alan Dzagoev
22 MF Denis Glushakov
23 MF Igor Semshov
10 FW Andrei Arshavin (c)
11 FW Aleksandr Kerzhakov
14 FW Roman Pavlyuchenko
18 FW Aleksandr Kokorin
20 FW Pavel Pogrebnyak
On the other side, Czech Republic through to main round of Euro 2012 via the playoffs after just being in second place under Spain. They beat Montenegro 3-0 in the aggregate in two-leg encounter. Russia favored to win this games since in their the last five meetings they have never lost against Czech, posted 3 wins and 2 draw. Roman Pavlyuchenko and Andrei Arshavin became the mainstay of russia, while Thomas Rosicky as captain of the Czech Rep. is expected to motivate his colleagues to play well.
Czech Republic squad For Euro 2012 :
1 GK Petr Cech
16 GK Jan Lastuvka
23 GK Jaroslav Drobny
2 DF Theodor Gebre Selassie
3 DF Michal Kadlec
4 DF Marek Suchy
5 DF Roman Hubník
6 DF Tomas Sivok
8 DF David Limbersky
12 DF Frantisek Rajtoral
9 MF Jan Rezek
10 MF Tomáš Rosicky
11 MF Milan Petrzela
13 MF Jaroslav Plasil
14 MF Vaclav Pilar
17 MF Tomas Hubschman
18 MF Daniel Kolar
19 MF Petr Jiracek
22 MF Vladimir Darida
7 FW Tomas Necid
15 FW Milan Baros
20 FW Tomas Pekhart
21 FW David Lafata