Goodbye Euro! Russian national team goes home after defeat by Danes

Taking into account the difference between goals scored and conceded, the Russians ended up in the last, fourth place in the group and therefore goes home among other Euro losers.

Despite the strong statements of the Danes on the eve of the game that they would tear Russia like a hot water bottle, the hosts were in no hurry for most of the first half. Although the fans were counting on a hurricane start, which would be no worse than in the game with Belgium. It seems that the especially disappointed began to vent their anger at the goalkeeper Matvei Safonov - plastic glasses with beer flew in his direction.

Passing across the field and back, the goalkeeper guaranteed the Danish national team 70% possession of the ball, but there were almost no shots on Safonov's goal, and not a single one at all dangerous. And it's hard to say whether our players were reliably blocking the approaches to their own penalty area, or whether this slow pace of the Danes was a tactical move to lull the vigilance and slowly exhaust the opponent. Against this background, the long-range strike of the 20-year-old defender of the Danes Mikel Damsgaard did not seem to have flown into the goal. But miraculously, having made a "candle" behind Safonov's back, the ball ended up in the net. The Russian goalkeeper just followed him with a sad look.

Sampdoria player Damsgaard thus became the youngest in Danish history, who managed to score a goal in official matches. What can not be said about the Russians - in a similar situation, twice in the first half, Golovin shot wide of the gate.

At the beginning of the second half, Russia conceded an even more illogical, if not absurd goal. Zobnin's feed to Safronov turned into a shot from Yusuf Poulsen, who ran out, whom Zobnin simply did not see.

After 5 minutes, it became known that Belgium scored a goal for the Finns and this automatically raised Denmark to second place in the group.

However, a minute later Sobolev earns a penalty and Dziuba implements it confidently and clearly. And after another half a minute in the game between the Belgians and the Finns, Lukaku's goal was canceled after watching on the VAR. Football fate turned to our face and gave us a chance to turn the match in our favor, but in the 75th minute the stadium again applauded the second, now legitimate goal of Belgium - and Denmark again climbed to second place.

As if anticipating victory, the Danes rushed to the assault. Safonov helped out at least three times, but Andreas Christensen's cannon shot in the 80th minute made the score 3-1. And at the same time Belgium scores the second goal to the Finns.

A couple of minutes later, the unsuccessful attack of the Russian national team ran into an opponent's scoring attack - 4-1!

By the way, typical statistics. In small Denmark with a population of 5 million 800 thousand people about 300 thousand people play football! It has been the most popular sport since the late 19th century. Which has recently received a powerful development in the form of children's and youth football. And how many children play football in Russia with a population of 145 million? We answer: the same 300 thousand! At the same time, the quality of fields and coaches is much lower here ...

And in the company of the losers of Euro 2020, in addition to Russia, today there are also Turks and the national team of North Macedonia. Against the background of their three-time defeats, our team has a wave of victory over Finland with a score of 1-0. With the total difference between goals scored and conceded 2-7.

So whether it is worth going with such baggage, coach and footballers next year to the World Cup in Qatar is a big question.