As Russia played at EURO 2012

The final part of Championship of Europe on football of 2012 began in Warsaw on 8 June and will end on 1 July in Kiev. However, the Russian team was eliminated from the tournament on June 16. The history of its participation in the championship started on the very first day, the first Russians with the poles scored his flight, having to spend only three matches of the group stage of the competition.

His performance at Euro 2012, our team started in Wroclaw, where her game with the Czech team, was personally present in almost 41 thousand spectators. They were not disappointed - at the stadium "meyski," on this day five goals were scored, four of them conducted by our team. Goals were scored by Alan Dzagoev (twice), Roman Shirokov and Roman Pavlyuchenko. It is a comfortable two-goal advantage at the Russians got to the middle of the first half, but shortly after the beginning of the second the Czech Republic (Vaclav Pilar reduced the deficit. Our national coach dick Advocaat at the 73rd minute of the game was replaced by striker Alexander Kerzhakov to his colleague on the field of play. Six minutes after that first Dzagoev and Pavlyuchenko then finished the advantage of the national team of Russia over Czech Republic to score 4:1.

The second game our players performed four days later at the Warsaw National stadium, where their opponents were the team owners. In this game, Alan Dzagoev scored a great goal following a free kick by the captain of the Russian national team Andrey Arshavin. It happened eight minutes before the end of the first half, and twelve minutes after the start of the second Jakub błaszczykowski not less beautifully sent a ball in gate of Vyacheslav Malafeeva. In the 70th minute, the Attorney was again replaced Kerzhakov, Pavlyuchenko, but, unlike the previous game, this did not yield any result as the replacement in 10 minutes on Dzagoev, Marat Izmailov. The meeting ended with a draw 1:1.

The third game of the Russians was held at the same venue which again was filled with nearly 56 thousand spectators. Last contender of our national team in this championship was the national team of Greece. The only goal of the match was scored by Greek Giorgos Karagounis, when it was added to the first half of the meeting time. This time the Lawyer spent the usual replacement for Pavlyuchenko Kerzhakov much earlier, during a break in the meeting. However, neither this substitution nor the output of another striker, Pavel Pogrebnyak, is midfielder Denis Glushakov, no appearance on the field is defender anyukova another player group attack Izmailov - did not change the outcome of the match. The Russians lost with the score 0:1 and was eliminated from the tournament, finishing in A third place.