"Many will give a chance to prove themselves": Lovchev on the upcoming matches of the Russian national team and Cherchesov's experiments

"We spat for a long time from the game of our national team, and today it looks worthy"

- In the next seven days, the Russian national team, in addition to the League of Nations matches with Turkey and Hungary, will have a friendly game with Sweden.

Does this kind of work make sense given the busy schedule at the club level?

- I don't see anything wrong with that, because many national teams will play three matches.

First, when people come to a national team, their psychological state changes dramatically.

Yesterday they fought each other, and today they meet as old friends.

And special loads in training work are definitely not expected.

- Should we expect experiments from Stanislav Cherchesov at least in a control game?

- I am sure that many people will be given a chance to prove themselves, including those who have just begun to be invited.

The main players such as Artyom Dziuba in a meeting with Sweden can be released for half time so that they remember their game connections.

We've been spitting on our team for so long, and today it looks decent.

- That is, the appearance on the field of Alexander Sobolev and Alexander Zhirov will not be a surprise?

- I can't say anything about the latter, but we'll probably see Sobolev.

- In September, the Russian national team players looked fresher than their rivals due to the fact that they had been playing since the end of June practically without a break.

Do you get the impression that a month later the players of the domestic teams began to get tired?

- If we consider the performance in European competitions, what teams are we talking about?

"Dynamo"?

There are not very many national team players there.

It's just that the team's play was not very bright.

But at the same time, fatigue did not prevent the blue and white from winning a victory over Krasnodar, which continues to play in European competitions.

So much depends not on physics at all, but on emotions.

In the national team, their shortage is definitely not expected.

People play for their country.

This is a completely different caliber.

At stake is not a meeting with Ufa, but the most important matches of the League of Nations.

A kind of love for football always flares up here.

And most importantly, the stands will be 30% full, which is already a lot.

- Isn't this decision by UEFA premature, given the growth of positive tests for coronavirus in Russia?

- All countries have already passed a certain stage and know what needs to be done in this situation.

For example, this year I have been to all Spartak home games.

There, stewards ask people to put on masks.

In the end, we learned how to manage this process.

For example, a lot of people came to the game of the red-and-whites with Zenit, but we have not heard anything about the coronavirus patients.

I don't think it will come to the suspension of the season.

"If Akinfeev wants to return to the national team, he must be taken"

- On the eve of the next matches, questions arise on all lines of the national team.

In particular, goalkeepers do not always act reliably.

- It is necessary to start with the fact that the national team is led by a former goalkeeper, who knows very well what condition his players are in.

After Igor Akinfeev left, Andrey Lunev became the first number, but then Cherchesov made a bet on Marinato Guilherme, and he played decently.

And in September Anton Shunin got a place in the base and also looked reliable.

We look at how they play at the club level, but the head coach of the national team does not choose according to this principle.

Again, he sees the state of the people who came to the training camp, and chooses the best one.

And there is no number one in the national team today.

We are accustomed to the fact that for many years it was Akinfeev, and everyone else was behind him.

- How do you feel about the talk that Igor should return to the national team?

- Only Akinfeev himself can make such a decision, missing the team.

But he also said that he did not give so much time as the national team even to his family.

However, if he wants to return, Igor must be taken.

Of course, this is a good level goalkeeper.

- Do you agree that Matvey Safonov has long deserved at least a call to the national team?

“Together with Alexander Maksimenko, they are undoubtedly our future.

But now they are solving other important problems together with the youth.

Nothing wrong with that.

Their time will come very soon, already in the next qualifying round.

By the way, now everyone is talking about Guilherme's mistakes, but remember what a curious goal Safonov missed from Lokomotiv last year.

Much has already been said about Maksimenko's blots in the derby with CSKA.

- The team has problems in the center of defense.

In your opinion, will Andrei Semyonov, after the mistakes made in the September matches with Serbia and Hungary, retain his place in the squad?

- Name a person who can replace him.

Now Ilya Kutepov has been called, but he has played only two matches in the current RPL season.

Although the situation with Dzhikia will probably leave almost no choice for Cherchesov, but if Georgy were in the ranks, the coaching staff would not break his duet with Andrei.

Still, coaches look at the condition of the players and draw conclusions.

It does not happen that a person played well one meeting - and he is immediately included in the basis.

- Did Kutepov's challenge surprise you?

- I often criticized Ilya for playing at Spartak, because a lot of goals were scored from under him.

But Kutepov played the match against Rubin at an excellent level, although he had been waiting for a chance on the bench for a long time.

- Is returning to the national team able to help the player regain self-confidence?

- Sure.

Cherchesov's coaching staff noted his game and thus decided to support the defender.

But it is not at all a fact that in the next meetings of the national team he will enter the field.

In the same way, they supported Daler Kuzyaev, who was left without a club.

Understand that in Russia there are not so many players of at least some level ...

Cherchesov keeps them in mind and demonstrates that he follows everyone.

Well, Kutepov played very well at the home world championship.

Why is it necessary to put an end to it?

- How would you rate the challenge of Alexander Zhirov from the German Sandhausen?

Does the fact that a footballer from the Bundesliga II is invited to the national team indicates that the personnel situation in the country is getting worse?

- It says only one thing - the coaches look after all the guys.

So in due time Roman Neustädter and Konstantin Rausch were attracted to the national team.

They are not the most outstanding performers and have not played for the strongest German teams.

But Cherchesov's headquarters demonstrates that it is ready to give a chance to everyone who has the right to play for the national team.

And Stanislav Salamovich behaves as with Kutepov and Kuzyaev, with everyone.

- But Zhirov's challenge itself does not indicate that there is a problem with the central defenders in the country?

- And remember how Fabio Capello called 19-year-old Nikita Chernov to the national team, who at that time did not play a single match at the senior level.

As a result, he even made his debut in the game with Austria.

Everyone wondered where this guy came from.

We really have a problem with central defenders.

Is Semyonov an outstanding football player?

This is not Albert Shesternev or Sergei Ignashevich.

The same can be said about Kutepov.

But there are no others!

Here Cherchesov calls Zhirov from the second German division.

But the level of this tournament is higher than our FNL.

- The media have even discussed the possible naturalization of Samuel Gigot.

How do you feel about this?

- We see that similar processes are taking place all over the world.

What can we say, even if a football country like Spain gave a passport to the Brazilian Diego Costa?

Today life does not divide states, but unites them.

The same Ari and Joaozinho received Russian citizenship.

If they were younger, they would have played for the national team a hundred percent.

And we are not discussing the place of Mario Fernandez in the national team.

"In Russia, people get into the national team half-trained"

- In September, in the absence of Alexei Miranchuk, Anton Miranchuk and Zelimkhan Bakaev alternately took on the role of a football player constructing the team's attacking play.

Which one looks preferable?

- It all depends on who will be in the best condition at the moment.

Bakaev is not playing very well now.

On the other hand, in the match with Serbia, he entered the field and earned a decisive penalty, although he did not look his best before being called up to the national team.

Playing for the national team always gives additional emotions.

- Kuzyaev also received a call to the national team, who is still without a club.

How can he, in the absence of playing practice, remain in an acceptable form?

- Today, during matches, you can make five castlings, that is, change half of the team.

Physical condition has nothing to do with it.

Daler is quite capable of spending one half.

Any football player, without training, runs off calmly for 45 minutes.

- The same applies to Denis Cheryshev, who took part in only one match of Valencia this season.

Wouldn't it have been better to let him solve club issues, especially since there are rumors that he will move to another team?

- Cheryshev is the undisputed football player of the national team.

He plays in a strong European championship, and this is a completely different football, much faster.

And coming to the national team, he becomes a noticeable figure in it.

He scores the balls, and not someone else.

So there is nothing wrong with that.

Recovered - come.

Let Cheryshev enter the field for the half, but Denis is a good, useful player.

- Nikolay Komlichenko was called into the attack line instead of the injured Fyodor Smolov.

Did the Dynamo forward deserve such an honor, considering that he scored only one goal this season, and in the last game with Krasnodar he remained in reserve at all?

- And here again we have to say that we have no other attackers.

Whom to call?

Fyodor Chalov lost a lot at CSKA.

Ivan Ignatiev in Rubin is the same.

Magomed-Shapi Suleimanov is in reserve at Krasnodar.

Whoever can be collected.

- Who do you think will be the first reserve for Artyom Dziuba, Sobolev or Komlichenko?

- Hard to say.

Komlichenko has already been tried, Sobolev has not yet.

As I said, in the match with Sweden, he may be given a chance.

But, for sure, Dziuba will play all the games on the field.

Yes, you will not particularly "bribe" him.

Fatigue?

This is the national team, and there is nothing higher than it.

- Discussing the composition of the national team, we come to the conclusion that in almost all positions it is experiencing a shortage of personnel.

What is the reason for this?

- Let's just see where our players come from.

Zhirov with Sobolev - Barnaul.

Fedor Kudryashov - Irkutsk region.

Alexander Golovin - Kaltan.

Yuri Gazinsky - Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

And further down the list ... It is depressing that the players for the national team are trained there, and not in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

And this is not a reproach to provincial cities where there is no football.

And in Moscow and St. Petersburg people, having borrowed money, stopped preparing players.

I remember how one of Spartak's coaches told me that Vladimir Granat was not doing well.

In response, I asked: "Do you know where he is from?"

From Ulan-Ude!

Name at least one other player from there.

Garnet made his way to the top, played for Spartak and Dynamo, but his school is bad.

And the good ones, where the outstanding masters in the past would have worked, are not there.

So it turns out with us that people get into the teams of masters and the national team half-trained.