If you remember my Russia-Germany preview, you knew this was coming.
Over at Russian Football Now, I examine tomorrow’s Leg 1 of the Russia-Slovenia UEFA World Cup playoff. The article is long, self-indulgent, and tedious, but it does outline a way that Slovenia can make it to South Africa.
Here’s a hint:
If Slovenia does have a decisive advantage in attacking Russian’s back left and Guus Hiddink doesn’t offset that by starting Yanbaev (and Denis Kolodin, who we’ll talk about later), it would behoove Kek to sit on that advantage. Try other ways to attack, bunker-in and just try to stay close after the first leg, but whatever you do don’t immediately show Hiddink that Russia has a fatal flaw.
While I wrote the article, I imagined I was talking to a room of renegade space pilots from deserted agrarian planets.
You can read the rest of the preview at Russian Football Now.
