Sozin: I don’t believe that Russia will compete in the 2022 World Cup. We had one chance – it was missed today

Member of the RFU Ethics Committee Andrey Sozin spoke about the defeat of the Russian national team in the match of the 10th round of the qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup with the national team of Croatia.

“I don’t believe that Russia will compete in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Looking at the rivals at the joints, we can say one thing – there are no rivals that we can go through.

We had one chance – today. And today we missed it: we will not win out of two matches. Russia has not shown any game – how are we going to win? Russia has no game in attack “, – Sozin in an interview with the correspondent of” Championship “Maxim Pakhomov.

The match Croatia – Russia ended in a victory for the hosts with a score of 1: 0. Own goal was scored by the defender of the Russian national team Fyodor Kudryashov.

In 10 matches, the Russian national team scored 22 points and took second place in Group H. Croatia (23) – in first place in the group standings. The Croatian team won a direct ticket to the World Championship in Qatar. Russia will play in the play-offs for the right to qualify for the final of the tournament.