Confederations Cup: Host Russia exits quietly
- by Soccer America , Jun 26, 2017
SEMIFINALS, SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, June 28
Portugal-Chile, FS1, Telemundo, 2 pm ET
Thursday, June 29
Germany-Mexico, FS2, Telemundo, 2 pm ET
GROUP A, RESULTS:
Saturday, June 17
Russia 2 (own goal 31, Smolov 69) New Zealand 0. Att.: 50,251.
Sunday, June 18
Portugal 2 (Quaresma 34, Cedric 86) Mexico 2 (Hernandez 42, Moreno 90+1). Att.: 34,372.
Wednesday, June 21
Mexico 2 (Jimenez 54, Peralta 72) New Zealand 1 (Wood 42). Att.: 25,000.
Russia 0 Portugal 1 (Cristiano Ronaldo 8). Att.: 42,759.
Saturday, June 24
Russia 1 (Samedov 25) Mexico 2 (Araujo 30, Lozano 52). Att.: 41,585.
Portugal 4 (Cristiano Ronaldo pen. 33, Bernardo Silva 37, Andre Silva 80, Nani 90+1) New Zealand 0. Att.: 56,290.
Standings: Portugal (7-2), Mexico (6-4) 7 points; Russia 3; New Zealand 0.
GROUP B, RESULTS:
Sunday, June 18
Chile 2 (Vidal 81, Vargas 90+1) Cameroon 0. Att.: 33,492.
Monday, June 19
Germany 3 (Stindl 5, Drexler pen. 44, Goretzka 48) Australia 2 (Rogic 41, Juric 56). Att.: 23,000.
Thursday, June 22
Cameroon 1 (Anguissa 45+1) Australia 1 (Milligan pen. 60).
Germany 1 (Stindl 41) Chile 1 (Sanchez 41).
June 25 in Sochi
Chile 1 (Rodriguez 67) Australia 1 (Troisi 42). Att.: 33,639.
Germany 3 (Demirbay 48, Werner 66, 81) Cameroon 1 (Aboubakar 78). Att.: 30,230.
Standings: Germany 7 points; Chile 5; Australia 2; Cameroon 1.
It is of concern - not so much for the Russian loss "story" or should it be called a "journalistic teaser" extensively used by the Soccer america writers, and by this I mean, many times I've thought they'd be writing a well meaning-balanced story about the game, instead we wet three to five, maybe narrow lines in the column inches. I suppose the SA gurus will say that it is due to time constraints, space, lack of corroborating info, etc. that forces them to provide such scant not even "historical" info for us to read....