Friday, June 8, 2018

World Cup Diary-part 12-June 8th, 2018 (T minus 6 days)


Diary:



Team News:

-West Ham United’s Argentina striker Manuel Lanzini will miss the World Cup after an injury in training. (Source BBC Football Online)
-Former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton has stated that Jordan Pickford should be England’s starting goalkeeper at the World Cup. (Source Reuters UK Online)

-Zlatan Ibrahimovic has blamed the Swedish media fro his exclusion from the Sweden’s World Cup squad. (Source Sky Sports Online)
-Australia Manager, the Dutchman Bart van Marwijk, has been paying himself for his support staff.  (Source AS.com Online)

-Ilkay Gundogan was booed during Germany’s friendly with Saudi Arabia. This was due to his controversial photo op with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.  (Source BBC Football online)

-Mexico Manager Juan Carlos Osorio has played down the latest scandal involving players and prostitutes, by saying the players had earned “time for themselves”.  (Source L’Equipe Online)


Friday, June 8, 2018:

Preparatory matches:

Lithuania 0-Iran 1 (Karim Ansarifard 88)
Venue: Moscow-Otkrytiye Arena, Russia
Attendance:
Referee: Aleksei Eskov (Russia)
Lithuania: 12-Tomas Svedkauskas, 3-Justinas Janusevskis, 15-Algis Jankauskas (5-Rolandas Baravykas 46’), 20-Valdemar Borovskij, 8-Egidijus Vaitkunas (4-Tomas Mikuckis 46’), 21-Justas Lasickas, 17-Mantas Kuklys, 7-Arturas Zulpa, 9-Karolis Laukzemis (2-Simonas Urbys 60’), 25-Ernestas Veliulis (11-Vykintas Slivka 60’); 19-Modestas Vorobjovas (6-Povilas Leimonas 46’)

Coach:
Booked: Karolis Laukzemis
Other Substitutes: 10-Darvydas Sernas, 18-Arvydas Novikovas, 2-Edvinas Girdvainis, 13-Simonas Paulius, 14-Ovidijus Verbickas, 16-Fedor Chernykh, 1-Dziugas Bartkus, 23-Ignas Plukas
Team Captain: Mantas Kuklys
Official Kit Supplier/Designer:
Uniform Colors: ?? Shirts, ?? Shorts, ?? Socks

Iran: 1-Alireza Beiranvand, 8-Morteza Pouraliganji, 4-Rouzbeh Cheshmi, 9-Omid Ebrahimi, 5-Milad Mohammadi, 23-Ramin Rezaeian, 3-Ehsan Hajsafi, 7-Masoud Shojaei, 17-Mehdi Taromi, 18-Alireza Jahanbakhsh, 20-Sardar Azmoun (10-Karim Ansarifard, 46’)
Note: Other sources show 16- Reza Ghoochannejhad replacing Saradr Azmoun in the 90+1 minute. But Karim Ansarifard had to have entered since he scored the winning goal.

Coach: Carlos Queiroz (Portugal)
Other Substitutes: 16-Reza Ghoochannejhad, 19-Majid Hosseini, 6-Saeid Ezatolahi, 13-Mohammad Khanzadeh, 11-Vahid Amiri, 2-Mehdi Torabi, 14-Saman Ghoddos, 12-Rashid Mazaheri, 22-Amir Abedzadeh.
Team Captain:
Official Kit Supplier/Designer:
Uniform Colors: ?? Shirts, ?? Shorts, ?? Socks


Croatia 2-Senegal 1 (Ivan Perisic 63, Andrej Kramaric 78 / Ismaila Sarr 48)
Venue: Osijek –Stadion Gradski Vrt
Attendance:
Referee: Adam Farkas (Hungary)
Croatia:  23-Danijel Subasic (12-Lovre Kalinic, 67); 21-Domagoj Vida, 6-Dejan Lovren (13-Tin Jedvaj, 46), 5-Vedran Corluka, 3-Ivan Strinic;7- Ivan Rakitic (8-Mateo Kovacic, 65), 19-Milan Badelj (9-Andrej Kramaric, 46); 18-Ante Rebic (11-Marcelo Brozovic, 61), 10-Luka Modric, 4-Ivan Perisic; 17-Marco Mandzukic (16-Nikola Kalinic, 46)

Coach: Zlatko Dalic
Booked: Mateo Kovacic 86
Other Substitutes: 22-Josip Pivaric, 1-Dominik Livakovic, 20-Marko Pjaca, 14-Filip Bradaric, 15-Duje Caleta-Car
Team Captain: Luka Modric,
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Nike
Uniform Colors: Black Shirts, Black Shorts, Red Socks

Senegal: 1-Abdoulaye Diallo; 21-Lamine Gassama, 3-Kalidou Koulibaly (4-Kara Mbodji, 82), 6-Salif Sane, 12-Youssouf Sabaly; 13-Alfred Ndiaye (17-Badou Ndiaye, 75), 5-Idrissa Gana Gueye (11-Cheikh Ndoye, 86); 18-Ismaila Sarr (9-Mame Biram Diouf, .74), 10-Sadio Mané, 19-M’Baye Niang (20-Keita Baldé, 65); 15-Diafra Sakho (7-Moussa Sow, 86)

Coach: Aliou Cisse
Booked: Kalidou Koulibaly 35, Diafra Sakho 61, Alfred N'Daye 66, Salif Sane 67, Sadio Mané 67
Other Substitutes: 16-Khadim N’Diaye, 2-Saliou Ciss, 8-Cheikhou Kouyaté, 23-Alfred Gomis 14-Moussa Konaté, 22-Moussa Wagué
Team Captain:
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Puma
Uniform Colors: White Shirts, White Shorts, White Socks




Switzerland 2-Japan 0 (Rictrado Rodriguez 42 pen, Haris Seferovic 82)
Venue: Lugano Stadio di Cornaredo
Attendance:
Referee: Amaury Delerue (France).
Switzerland:  21-Roman Burki, 2-Stephan Lichtsteiner, 22-Fabian Schar, 5-Manuel Akanji (4-Nico Elvedi 46), 13-Ricardo Rodríguez (3-Francois Moubandje 73), 11-Valon Behrami, 10-Granit Xhaka, 23-Xherdan Shaqiri (19-Josip Drmic 83), 8-Remo Freuler (15-Blerim Dzemaili 64), 7-Breel Embolo (14-Steven Zuber 64) , 18-Mario Gavranovic (9-Haris Seferovic 64)

Coach: Vladimir Petkovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Booked: Valon Behrami 13
Other Substitutes: 20-Johan Djourou, 16-Geslon Fernandes, 1-Yann Sommer, 6-Michael Lang, 12-Yvon Mvogo, 17-Denis Zakaria
Team Captain: Stephan Lichtsteiner
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Puma
Uniform Colors: Red Shirts, Red Shorts, Red Socks

Japan: 1-Eij Kawashima, 22-Maya Yoshida, 17-Makoto Hasebe, 20-Tomoaki Makino, 21-Gotoku Sakai (19-Hiroki Sakai 56), 18-Ryota Oshima (7-Gaku Shibasaki, m.70), 8-Genki Haraguchi, 5-Yuto Nagatomo, 4-Keisuke Honda (10-Shinji Kagawa 76), 11-Takashi Usami (14-Takashi Inui 55), 15-Kuya Osako (13-Yoshinori Muto 40)

Coach: Akira Nishino
Booked: Gaku Shibasaki 73, Makoto Hasebe 78
Other Substitutes: 9-Shinji Okazaki, 12-Masaaki Higashiguchi, 6-Wataru Endo, 16-Hotaru Yamaguchi, 3-Gen Shoji, 23-Kosuke Nakamura, 2-Naomichi Ueda
Team Captain:
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform Colors: Navy Blue Shirts, Navy Blue Shorts, Navy Blue Socks
  


Germany 2-Saudi Arabia 1 (Timo Werner 8, Omar Hawsawi (own goal) 43 / Taisir Al-Jassim 84)
Venue: Leverkusen-BayArena
Attendance: 30, 210
Referee: Slavko Vincic (Slovenia)
Germany:  1-Manuel Neuer (22-Marc-André ter Stegen 46), 5-Mats Hummels, 17-Jérôme Boateng (15-Niklas Süle 46), 3-Jonas Hector, 18-Joshua Kimmich (4-Matthias Ginter 81), 11-Marco Reus (21-Ilkay Gündogan 57), 8-Toni Kroos, 6-Sami Khedira, 9-Timo Werner (23-Mario Gomez 63), 7-Julian Draxler, 13-Thomas Müller (20-Julian Brandt 74)

Coach: Joachim Low
Other Substitutes: 10-Mesut Özil, 19-Sebastian Rudy, 12-Kevin Trapp, 2-Marvin Plattenhardt, 16-Antonio Rüdiger, 14-Leon Goretzka.
Team Captain: Sami Khedira
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform Colors: White Shirts, Black Shorts, White Socks

Saudi Arabia: 1-Abdullah Al-Muaiouf, 5-Omar Othman, 3-Osama Hawsawi (26-Ali Al-Bulayhi 82), 14-Abdullah Otayf (16-Hussain Al-Moqahwi 75), 2-Mansour Al-Harbi (6-Mohammed Al-Burayki 46), 13-Yasir Al-Shahrani, 7-Salman Al-Faraj (15-Abdullah Al-Khaibari 90+1), 17-Taiseer Al-Jassam, 29-Salem Al-Dawsari (9-Hatan Bahbir 88), 8-Yahia Al-Shehri, 19-Fahad Al-Muwallad (10-Mohammed Al-Sahlawi 62)

Coach: Juan Antonio Pizzi (Spain)
Booked: Hussain Al-Mogahwi 89
Other Substitutes: 23-Motaz Hawsawi, 21-Yasser Al-Mosailem, 20-Muhannad Asiri, 11-Abdulmalek Al-Khaibri, 22-Mohammed Al-Owais, 12-Mohamed Kanno.
Team Captain: Taiseer Al-Jassam
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Nike
Uniform Colors: Green Shirts, Green Shorts, Green Socks
Note:
1-Manuel Neuer saved a penalty kick by Mohammed Al-Sahlawi in the 84th  minute, Taiseer Al-Jassam scored from the rebound.




Poland 2-Chile 2 (Robert Lewandowski 30, Piotr Zielinski 34 / Diego Valdes 38, Miiko Albornoz 56)
Venue: Poznań -Inea Stadion
Attendance: 41,216
Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni (Italy)
Poland:  1. Wojciech Szczęsny (22. Łukasz Fabiański 46) - 20. Łukasz Piszczek (4. Thiago Cionek 46), 5. Jan Bednarek, 2. Michał Pazdan, 13. Maciej Rybus (18. Bartosz Bereszyński 82) - 16. Jakub Błaszczykowski, 10. Grzegorz Krychowiak, 8. Karol Linetty (7. Arkadiusz Milik 46), 19. Piotr Zieliński, 11. Kamil Grosicki (6. Jacek Góralski 67) - 9. Robert Lewandowski (14. Łukasz Teodorczyk 74)

Coach: Adam Nawalka
Other Substitutes: 12-Bartosz Bialkowski, 17-Slawomir Peszko, 15-Kamil Glik, 3-Artur Jedtzejczyk, 23-Dawid Kownacki, 21-Rafal Kurzawa
Team Captain: Robert Lewandowski
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Nike
Uniform Colors: White Shirts, Red Shorts, White Socks

Chile: 12. Gabriel Arias - 5. Paulo Díaz (4. Francisco Sierralta 87), 3. Enzo Roco, 6. Guillermo Maripán, 26. Sebastián Vegas (2. Miiko Albornoz 35) - 18. Ángelo Sagal (24. José Bizama 82), 27. Jimmy Martínez (15. Ángelo Araos 68), 21. Lorenzo Reyes, 10. Diego Valdés, 7. Júnior Fernandes - 9. Nicolás Castillo (25. Cristián Cuevas 87)

Coach: Reinaldo Rueda
Booked: Sebastián Vegas 26, Angelo Araos 86
Other Substitutes: 8-Pablo Manuel Galdames, 1-Cristopher Toselli, 14-Martin Rodriguez, 16-Igor Lichnovsky, 22-Angelo Henriquez, 11-Felipe Mora, 23-Gonzalo Collao, 20-Benjamin Kuscevic, 19-Victor Davila
Team Captain:
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Nike
Uniform Colors: Red Shirts, White Shorts, Blue Socks
 


Note: In bold, teams participating in the World Cup





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