Russia 23-Man World Cup 2018 Squad & Possible Starting Lineups

Russia National Coach: Stanislav Cherchesov

Stanislav Cherchesov became russian national team coach after abysmal 2016 Euro championship and he has kind of steady the ship however Russia has yet to play any competitive football since Euro 2016 since they automatically qualified for the world cup. So how big a impact Cherchesov has made over Russian national team is yet to be seen.

Possible Starting Lineup: 

Unlike the previous few major tournaments, this is the weakest squad at least on paper and although they should have enough about them to get out of the group stages its hard to see Russia going past first knockout stage. Cherchesov has made several high profile changes specially at the back bringing in Viktor Vasin (CSKA),  Fedor Kudryashov (Rubin Kazan), Georgi Dzhikiya (Spartak Moscow) in what will be three man defense.

In midfield Igor Denisov is unlikely to be part of the squad after falling out with national team coach while Alan Dzagoev is the stand out start in this Russian side with couple of quality goal scorers in Fyodor Smolov and Aleksandr Kokorin spearheading the attack.

Russia Schedule of World Cup 2018:

Fifa world cup 2018 hosts drawn in group A. Where they play the first match of the world cup against (Saudi Arabia). The other two opponents that later face are (Egypt and Uruguay).

1. Russia vs Saudi Arabia– 14 June 2018
2. Russia vs Egypt– 19 June 2018
3. Uruguay vs Russia – 25 June 2018

Russia 23 Men Squad: No announcement yet made by the Russian football federation about the players selection. But as far as sources confirmed that Russia team squad will announced in between (10-15 May).

	PLAYER	CLUB	AGE	POSITION
1	Igor Akinfeev	CSKA Moscow	31	GK
2	Vladimir Gabulov	Brugge	34	GK
3	Andrey Lunyov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	26	GK
4	Yuri Zhirkov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	34	Defender
6	Dmitri Kombarov	Spartak Moscow	31	Defender
7	Igor Smolnikov	Zenit Saint Petersburg	29	Defender
8	Vladislav Ignatyev	Lokomotiv Moscow	31	Defender
9	Konstantin Rausch	Fenerbahçe	30	Defender
10	Ilya Kutepov	Spartak Moscow	24	Defender
11	Viktor Vasin	CSKA Moscow	29	Defender
12	Georgi Dzhikiya	Spartak Moscow	24	Defender
13	Magomed Ozdoyev	Zenit Saint Petersburg	25	Midfielder
14	Dmitri Tarasov	Lokomotiv Moscow	30	Midfielder
15	Denis Glushakov	Spartak Moscow	31	Midfielder
16	Alan Dzagoev	CSKA Moscow	27	Midfielder
17	Aleksandr Samedov	Spartak Moscow	33	Midfielder
18	Aleksandr Golovin	CSKA Moscow	21	Midfielder
19	Aleksandr Yerokhin	West Ham United	28	Midfielder
20	Aleksandr Kokorin	Zenit Saint Petersburg	26	Forward
21	Fyodor Smolov	Krasnodar	28	Forward
22	Aleksei Miranchuk	Lokomotiv Moscow	22	Forward
23	Artem Dzyuba	Arsenal Tula	29	Forward