- Russia's 10th consecutive match without defeat
- Luxembourg suffered its 5th consecutive defeat
- Luxembourg's 9th consecutive match without victory
Russia vs Luxembourg 1998 World Cup qualification match report| Date, kick-off time: | Wednesday, 30 April 1997, 19:00 (UTC+04:00) | | National teams, score: | - 3:0 | | Competition: | 1998 FIFA World Cup Qualification, Group 5 | | Referee: | John Rowbotham, Kirkcaldy / | | Attendance, venue: | 9 200, Dynamo Stadium, Moscow  | | Goals: | 1:0 (20') Valeriy Kechinov, 2:0 (55') Sergey Grishin, 3:0 (57') Igor Simutenkov |
| Managed by head coach Boris Ignatyev | | Player | Caps | Age | Club | | Sergey Ovchinnikov | 7 | 26 | FC Lokomotiv, Moscow | Vladislav Radimov  68' | 17 | 21 | Real Zaragoza, Zaragoza |  68' Denis Zubko | 1 | 22 | SC Rotor, Volgograd | Yuriy Kovtun 43'  | 19 | 27 | FC Dinamo, Moscow | | Aleksey Kosolapov | 4 | 26 | FC Lokomotiv, Moscow | | Omari Tetradze 26' | 33 | 27 | AS Roma SpA, Roma | | 26' Dmitriy Popov | 17 | 30 | SD Compostela, Santiago de Compostela | | Igor Chugaynov | 11 | 27 | FC Lokomotiv, Moscow | Viktor Onopko  | 52 | 27 | Real Oviedo, Oviedo | | Dmitriy Alenitchev | 6 | 24 | FC Spartak, Moscow | | Vladimir Beschastnykh 46' | 25 | 23 | Racing Santander, Santander | | 46' Sergey Grishin | 1 | 23 | FC Dinamo, Moscow | | Valeriy Kechinov | 5 | 22 | FC Spartak, Moscow | | Igor Simutenkov | 14 | 25 | AC Reggiana, Reggio nellEmilia |
| Managed by national coach Paul Philipp | | Player | Caps | Age | Club | | Paul Koch | 25 | 30 | CS Grevenmacher, Gréiwemaacher | | Jean-Pierre Vanek | 15 | 28 | FC Avenir Beggen, Lëtzebuerg | | Carlo Weis | 85 | 38 | FC Sporting Mertzig, Mäerzeg | Jeff Strasser 55'  | 19 | 22 | FC Metz, Metz | | Frank Deville | 14 | 26 | 1. FC Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken | | Jeff Saibene 89' | 35 | 28 | FC Aarau, Aarau | | 89' Paolo Amodio | 3 | 23 | AS La Jeunesse dEsch, Esch-Uelzecht | | Guy Hellers | 52 | 32 | R Standard de Liège, Liège | | Marc Birsens 82' | 39 | 30 | CS Grevenmacher, Gréiwemaacher | | Patrick Posing | 5 | 25 | FC Avenir Beggen, Lëtzebuerg | | Manuel Cardoni 73' | 21 | 24 | TSV Bayer 04, Leverkusen | | 73' Marc Lamborelle | 5 | 25 | AS La Jeunesse dEsch, Esch-Uelzecht | | Roby Langers 68' | 69 | 36 | F91, Diddeleng | | 68' Serge Thill | 8 | 28 | RSC Athus, Athus |
Match stats | National team | Players | Average caps | Average age | Clubs | Goals | Cautions | Expulsions | | Russia | 14 | 15.143 | 25.357 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | | Luxembourg | 14 | 28.214 | 28.812 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Russia vs Luxembourg post-match head-to-head | Russia matches Previous match: 1998 FIFA World Cup Qualification Cyprus vs Russia 1-1 Paralimni, Saturday 29 March 1997 Next match: 1998 FIFA World Cup Qualification Russia vs Israel 2-0 Moscow, Sunday 8 June 1997 Luxembourg matches Previous match: Next match: Top Russia scorers 1. Oleg Blokhin (1972 - 1986) - 42 goals
2. Oleh Protasov (1984 - 1991) - 28 goals
... Igor Simutenkov (1994 - 1997) - 8 goals
... Valeriy Kechinov (1995 - 1997) - 2 goals
... Sergey Grishin (1997) - 1 goal
(correct as of April 30, 1997) Brief match report Wed. 30 Apr 1997
Dynamo Stadium, Moscow
Russia 3-0 Luxembourg
Goals: Kechinov 20, Grishin 55, Simutenkov 57
Russia: Ovchinnikov, Radimov (Zubko 68), Kovtun, Kosolapov, Tetradze (Popov 26), Chugaynov, Onopko (c), Alenitchev, Beschastnykh (Grishin 46), Kechinov, Simutenkov. Managed by Ignatyev.
Booked: Kovtun 43.
Luxembourg: Koch, Vanek, Weis (c), Strasser, Deville, Saibene (Amodio 89), Hellers, Birsens, Posing, Cardoni (Lamborelle 73), Langers (Thill 68). Managed by Philipp.
Booked: Birsens 82. Sent off: Strasser 55.
Att: 9 200
Ref: Rowbotham (Scotland) |
