Hiddink's dream is over
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The Russian forward looks set to stay in St Petersburg
Spain reached the European Championship final for the first time in 24 years on Thursday with a convincing 3-0 win over Russia to set up a meeting with Germany. Xavi scored at a rainswept Ernst Happel Stadium to give Spain a deserved 1-0 lead after 50 minutes and substitute Daniel Guiza made no mistake when he beat the offside trap to make it 2-0 after 73 minutes. [+]
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| Current Squad | |
| G1 Igor Akinfeev | M14 Roman Shirokov |
| G12 Vladimir Gabulov | M7 Dmitri Torbinsky |
| G16 Vyacheslav Malafeev | M3 Renat Yanbaev |
| D22 Aleksandr Aniukov | M18 Yuri Zhirkov |
| D5 Alexei Berezutsky | M17 Konstantin Zyryanov |
| D2 Vasili Berezutsky | F6 Roman Adamov |
| D4 Sergei Ignashevich | F10 Andrei Arshavin |
| D8 Denis Kolodin | F13 Oleg Ivanov |
| M15 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov | F19 Roman Pavlyuchenko |
| M23 Vladimir Bystrov | F9 Ivan Saenko |
| M11 Sergei Semak | F21 Dmitri Sychev |
| M20 Igor Semshov | |
| · Complete Squad | |
Columns and Features
A new hope for Russian generation
With pride restored under Guus Hiddink, Russia will look to spring a few surprises. Dale Johnson writes. [+]
Russia Picture Gallery
The best pictures from Russia's dramatic route to Euro 2008 as they finally look to make a mark on the tournament. [+]
| Latest Fixtures/Results | |||
| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | Competition |
| Sat 6/21 | A - Netherlands | W 1-3 | European Championship |
| Thu 6/26 | H- Spain | L 0-3 | European Championship | · Complete Team Fixtures/Results |
| 2008 Tables: European Championship | ||||||
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GD | Pts |
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| Russia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Sweden | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | -1 | 3 |
| Greece | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | -4 | 0 |
| · Complete Tables | ||||||
| 2008 Leaders: Euro 2012 | |||||
| PLAYER | Goals | ||||
| Roman Pavlyuchenko | 3 | ||||
| Andrei Arshavin | 2 | ||||
| Dmitri Torbinsky | 1 | ||||
| Konstantin Zyryanov | 1 | ||||
| PLAYER | Yellow Cards | ||||
| Dmitri Torbinsky | 2 | ||||
| Yuri Zhirkov | 2 | ||||
| Denis Kolodin | 2 | ||||
| Andrei Arshavin | 1 | ||||
| Sergei Semak | 1 | ||||
| Ivan Saenko | 1 | ||||
| · Complete Statistics | |||||
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