Russia flexes muscles ahead of Euro 2008
Published 05 June, 2008, 09:15
Russian manager Guus Hiddink has been impressed by his charges manager in their last warm-up match before the European Championships. They beat Lithuania soundly 4-1 in Germany.
However, it was Lithuania, who first got on the scoreboard.
Mantas Savenas opened the scoring 24 minutes into the game, exploiting a dreadful mistake of Russia's defenders.
But nine minutes later Konstantin Zyryanov got an equaliser with a brilliant shot.
Straight after the break another Zenit striker Andrey Arshavin gave Russia a 2-1 lead.
Then Spartak Moscow’s Roman Pavlyuchenko scored Russia's third goal.
And with ten minutes to go, Pavlyuchenko’s teammate Vladimir Bystrov put the score beyond any doubt.
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