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World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone 2022 - Round 5 - Group H

Neo GSP - Strovolos - Cyprus

September 04, 2021

Cyprus

0 - 2

Russia

Aleksandr ErokhinAssist by Fedor Smolov

55'

Rifat ZhemaletdinovAssist by Fedor Smolov

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6' - Goal Aleksandr Erokhin

45' - Yellow card Kostakis Artymatas45

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46' - Substitution Denis Cheryshevis substituted by Rifat Zhemaletdinov

55' - Goal Rifat Zhemaletdinov

59' - Yellow card Fedor Smolov

61' - Substitution Nikolas Panayiotouis substituted by Andreas Avraam photo Marinos Tzionis

61' - Substitution Ioannis Pittasis substituted by Marinos Tzionis61

64' - Substitution Aleksey Miranchukis substituted by Zelimkhan Bakaev

67' - Substitution Aleksandr Golovinis substituted by Daler Kuzyaev

72' - Substitution Kostakis Artymatasis substituted by Charalampos Kyriakou photo Marios Elia

72' - Substitution Fotios Papoulisis substituted by Marios Elia72

74' - Yellow card Aleksandr Erokhin

75' - Substitution Fedor Smolovis substituted by Konstantin Tyukavin

77' - Substitution Paris Psaltisis substituted by Panayiotis Zachariou77

90' - Yellow card Fanos Katelaris90

93' - Yellow card Rifat Zhemaletdinov

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Cyprus

0 - 2

Russia

Cyprus Russia

Team line-ups

Cyprus

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

17Loizou

Loizos Loizou

Cyprus

B.date18/07/2003

Age18 years

positionRight Winger

15Papoulis72

Fotios Papoulis

Cyprus

B.date22/01/1985

Age36 years

H1m75

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

23Pittas61

Ioannis Pittas

Cyprus

B.date10/07/1996

Age25 years

H1m80

positionLeft Winger

4N. Ioannou

Nicolas Ioannou

Cyprus

B.date10/11/1995

Age25 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

18Artymatas7245

Kostakis Artymatas

Cyprus

B.date15/04/1993

Age28 years

H1m84

positionCentre Midfield

20Kastanos

Grigoris Kastanos

Cyprus

B.date30/01/1998

Age23 years

H1m79

positionCentre Midfield

16Psaltis77

Paris Psaltis

Cyprus

B.date12/11/1996

Age24 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

2Karo

Andreas Karo

Cyprus

B.date09/09/1996

Age24 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

5Katelaris90

Fanos Katelaris

Cyprus

B.date26/08/1996

Age25 years

H1m86

positionDefensive Midfielder

13Panayiotou61

Nikolas Panayiotou

Cyprus

B.date12/05/2000

Age21 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

22Michael

Neophytos Michael

Cyprus

B.date16/12/1993

Age27 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
22	G	Neophytos Michael		27	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Nikolas Panayiotou	61	21	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Nicolas Ioannou		25	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Andreas Karo		24	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Paris Psaltis	77	24	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Fanos Katelaris	90	25	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Kostakis Artymatas	7245	28	51	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Grigoris Kastanos		23	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Fotios Papoulis	72	36	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Ioannis Pittas	61	25	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Loizos Loizou		18	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

25.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Russia

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

6Cheryshev46

Denis Cheryshev

Russia

B.date26/12/1990

Age30 years

H1m80

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

9Smolov7559

Fedor Smolov

Russia

B.date09/02/1990

Age31 years

H1m86

positionCentre forward

15Miranchuk64

Aleksey Miranchuk

Russia

B.date17/10/1995

Age25 years

H1m77

positionOffensive Midfielder

17Golovin67

Aleksandr Golovin

Russia

B.date30/05/1996

Age25 years

H1m80

positionBox-to-box midfielder

8Barinov

Dmitriy Barinov

Russia

B.date11/09/1996

Age24 years

H1m79

positionDefensive Midfielder

21Erokhin674

Aleksandr Erokhin

Russia

B.date13/10/1989

Age31 years

H1m92

positionCentre Midfield

13Samoshnikov

Ilia Samoshnikov

Russia

B.date14/11/1997

Age23 years

H1m77

positionLeft full-back

14Jikia

Georgiy Jikia

Russia

B.date21/11/1993

Age27 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

3Diveev

Igor Diveev

Russia

B.date27/09/1999

Age21 years

H1m93

positionCentral defender

4Karavaev

Vyacheslav Karavaev

Russia

B.date20/05/1995

Age26 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

1Guilherme

Guilherme

Russia

B.date12/12/1985

Age35 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Guilherme		35	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Igor Diveev		21	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Georgiy Jikia		27	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Vyacheslav Karavaev		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Ilia Samoshnikov		23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Dmitriy Barinov		24	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Aleksandr Golovin	67	25	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Aleksandr Erokhin	674	31	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	F	Denis Cheryshev	46	30	33	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	F	Aleksey Miranchuk	64	25	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Fedor Smolov	7559	31	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Konstantinos Panayi		26
12	G	Demetris Demetriou		22
6	D	Alexander Gogic		27
3	D	Marios Antoniadis		31
8	M	Charalampos Kyriakou	72	26	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Andreas Avraam	61	34	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Demetris Christofi		32
14	M	Michalis Ioannou		21
21	F	Marinos Tzionis	61	20	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Marios Elia	72	25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Panayiotis Zachariou	77	25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Onisiforos Roushias		29

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
16	G	Andrey Lunev		29
12	G	Yuriy Dyupin		33
5	D	Maxim Osipenko		27
23	M	Daler Kuzyaev	67	28	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Zelimkhan Bakaev	64	25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Roman Zobnin		27
20	M	Arsen Zakharyan		18
18	M	Aleksey Sutormin		27
2	M	Maxim Mukhin		19
19	F	Rifat Zhemaletdinov	554693	24	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	F	Konstantin Tyukavin	75	19	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Anton Zabolotnyi		30

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Grigoris Kastanos

Charalampos Kyriakou

OUT

Fanos Katelaris

Konstantinos Sotiriou

OUT

Nikolas Panayiotou

Demetris Christofi

OUT

Loizos Loizou

Marios Antoniadis

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Aleksandr Erokhin

Daler Kuzyaev

OUT

Denis Cheryshev

Aleksey Ionov

OUT

Ilia Samoshnikov

Mário Fernandes

OUT

Fedor Smolov

Arsen Zakharyan

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Nikos Kostenoglou

Success rate in this team:

14 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

40 %

Kostenoglou vs Russia

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 04, 2021

Kostenoglou vs Karpin

0 victory

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 04, 2021

Manager

Age

Match num

Valeriy Karpin

Success rate in this team:

50 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Karpin vs Cyprus

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 04, 2021

Karpin vs Kostenoglou

1 victory

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 04, 2021

Referee

Alejandro José Hernández Hernández

0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Cyprus1 match	General total	Russia1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Cyprus1 match	Season total	Russia1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on September 04, 2021					Latest figure on September 04, 2021

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Key figures

Cyprus keeps its 3 matches without scoring any goal vs Russia running (since 12/02/2003). It's a record streak. The first of history

It's the first time Rifat Zhemaletdinov scores 1 goal in World Cup Qualifying - Europe Zone

Cyprus keeps its 3 matches with at least one goal conceded vs Russia at home running (since 29/03/1997). It's a record streak. The first of history

Read the next 14 key stats

General ranking

-1	2	Croatia	10 pts	5 rd
+1	3	Slovenia	7 pts	5 rd
-1	4	Slovakia	6 pts	5 rd
	5	Malta	4 pts	5 rd
	6	Cyprus	4 pts	5 rd

General ranking

+1	1	Russia	10 pts	5 rd
-1	2	Croatia	10 pts	5 rd
+1	3	Slovenia	7 pts	5 rd
-1	4	Slovakia	6 pts	5 rd
	5	Malta	4 pts	5 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LCyprus 0-2 Montenegro05/09/2020

LCyprus 0-1 Azerbaijan08/09/2020

LCyprus 1-2 Czech Republic07/10/2020

VCyprus 2-1 Luxembourg14/11/2020

DCyprus 0-0 Slovakia24/03/2021

VCyprus 1-0 Slovenia30/03/2021

Overall

DCyprus 0-0 Slovakia24/03/2021

LCroatia 1-0 Cyprus27/03/2021

VCyprus 1-0 Slovenia30/03/2021

LHungary 1-0 Cyprus04/06/2021

LUkraine 4-0 Cyprus07/06/2021

LMalta 3-0 Cyprus01/09/2021

Current form

Away

LTurkey 3-2 Russia15/11/2020

LSerbia 5-0 Russia18/11/2020

VMalta 1-3 Russia24/03/2021

LSlovakia 2-1 Russia30/03/2021

DPoland 1-1 Russia01/06/2021

LRussia 1-4 Denmark21/06/2021

Overall

DPoland 1-1 Russia01/06/2021

VRussia 1-0 Bulgaria05/06/2021

LBelgium 3-0 Russia12/06/2021

VFinland 0-1 Russia16/06/2021

LRussia 1-4 Denmark21/06/2021

DRussia 0-0 Croatia01/09/2021

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	3
Unbeaten streak	3	0
Winless streak	0	3
Drawless streak	1	5
Scoring streak	1	0
Goalless streak	0	3
Conceding streak	0	3
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	3	2
Drawless streak	1	0
Scoring streak	4	0
Goalless streak	0	1
Conceding streak	6	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

6	General ranking (Competition total)	2
5	General ranking (Home / Away)	1

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

4	Number of games (Competition total)	4
2	Number of games (Home / Away)	2
1	Victories (Competition total)	2
1	Victories (Home / Away)	1
1	Draws (Competition total)	1
1	Draws (Home / Away)	0
2	Losses (Competition total)	1
0	Losses (Home / Away)	1

Goals

1	Goals scored (Competition total)	6
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	4
4	Goals conceded (Competition total)	4
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	3
0.25	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.5
0.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	2
1	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.5

Betting aid

1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	3
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	2
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	1
2	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	1
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	3
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	2
0-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-1 (1 times)

Bookings

4	Yellow cards (Competition total)	8
2	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	3
1	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Ioannis Pittas	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	3 goals	Artem Dzyuba
Ioannis Pittas	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Mário Fernandes
Fotios Papoulis	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	2 assists	Daler Kuzyaev
Fotios Papoulis	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Artem Dzyuba
Ioannis Pittas	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	3 goals, 1 assist during the last 4 matches	Artem Dzyuba

Historical head to head

Home

3 matches

0 v

1 d

2 l

1 gf

7 ga

Away

2 matches

0 v

0 d

2 l

0 gf

5 ga

Total

5 matches

0 v

1 d

4 l

1 gf

12 ga

Historical head to head

Home

2 matches

2 v

0 d

0 l

5 gf

0 ga

Away

3 matches

2 v

1 d

0 l

7 gf

1 ga

Total

5 matches

4 v

1 d

0 l

12 gf

1 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 0	October 13, 2019
Away	5 - 0	October 13, 2019

Latest head to head

October 13, 2019 - Eliminatoires Euro 2020

Cyprus

0 - 5

Russia

June 11, 2019 - Eliminatoires Euro 2020

Russia

1 - 0

Cyprus

February 12, 2003 - Cyprus Tournament 2003

Cyprus

0 - 1

Russia

March 29, 1997 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1998

Cyprus

1 - 1

Russia

September 01, 1996 - Eliminatoires Coupe du Monde - Zone Europe 1998

Russia

4 - 0

Cyprus

Best historical scorers against Russia

Sinisa Gogic

1 goal

1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/09/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Cyprus

Yuriy Nikiforov	2 goals	1996 - 1996
Denis Cheryshev	2 goals	2019 - 2019
Igor Kolyvanov	1 goal	1996 - 1996
Igor Simutenkov	1 goal	1997 - 1997
Artem Dzyuba	1 goal	2019 - 2019
Dmitriy Khokhlov	1 goal	2003 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/09/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Russia

Georgios Theodotou	3 matches	1996 - 2003
Nicos Timotheou	2 matches	1996 - 1997
Renato Margaça	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Konstantinos Laifis	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Ioannis Kousoulos	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Costas Malekkos	2 matches	1996 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 01/09/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Cyprus

Viktor Onopko	3 matches	1996 - 2003
Fedor Kudryashov	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Magomed Ozdoev	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Aleksandr Golovin	2 matches	2019 - 2019
Valeriy Karpin	2 matches	1997 - 2003
Georgiy Jikia	2 matches	2019 - 2019