The home ground was a major factor in that drubbing. Russia was very poor in passing in the whole game. In a neutral venue, this result would have been very different. Also, Russia's most attack was through 22 year Golovin and rest through long balls. KSA didnt do anything to contain him in whole match. I believe it was poor tactics from Saudi than huge gap in quality.
Russia was far from impressive but then they are not any formidable team either. But their finishing was clinical. Dzyuba, Cheryshev were amazing as a substitute.
Saudi Arabia was very poor in defense. You cant try to play attacking football as one of the weakest teams in the tournament. Marking was poor and so was the goalkeeper.
May be KSA should use Constantine technique of long ball once a while , they had way too many passes by 20min I was kinda hoping they would at least fire one or two crosses inside D
What I liked about Saudi player is they were so confident on ball n they could work those short passes so well
May be they overdid that
2-0 scoreline was justified last two goals were too good to stop
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What I liked about Saudi player is they were so confident on ball n they could work those short passes so well
May be they overdid that
2-0 scoreline was justified last two goals were too good to stop