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Russia scored two goals at the Stade de France, but lost to the French team - 2:4

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Even the goals scored by Kokorin and Zhirkov were not enough for the Russian national team to avoid defeat in a friendly match with the hosts of Euro 2016. Zenit will again visit the Eagle's Nest Strongest rival in the last three years as a team France, world champion in 1998, two-time European champion. The last time the national team had such a decent opponent was in June 2013, when the Russian team played a qualifying match with Portugal, and a little earlier, in March of the same year, a “freight train” was held with the most titled team in the world, Pentacampeons, Brazilians. With all due respect to the Swedes, our main rivals in the previous selection, they can be considered solid middle peasants. Yes, and at the World Cup in Brazil two years ago, the Russians were in a group in which there were no grandees. However, even then we could not leave the "group of life". CSKA suffered another defeat in the Champions League, this time in Eindhoven. So, despite the friendly status of today's meeting, the Russian-French match at the Stade de France caused ...

Zenit lost to Benfica with a score of 1:2 and was left out of the Champions League

The Villas-Boas team, having shown a rather meaningful game, was close to victory in the second leg of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League, but the last ten minutes of the match turned into a disaster for the Petersburgers. The Moment of Truth for Zenit On the day of the second leg in St. Petersburg, many Russian-language sports media in their previews so electrified the situation that it seemed that in the evening at Petrovsky there would be a grandiose doomsday. No worse than the famous Lake Maracaibo, where the highest concentration of atmospheric electric charges in the world is observed. According to most observers, for Zenit, if not judgment day, then at least the moment of truth has come. Failure will negate everything that was gained by overwork and brilliant play at the autumn stage of the group round, and also let down a disappointing...