Russia takes on the visitors Ivory Coast at "Krasnodar Stadium" in the friendly match. The game will be played on Friday, March 24th.
Russia shows weak results and poor football after Stanislav Cherchesov's appointing as the head coach of the Russian national football team. In five recent games Russia recorded two wins against Ghana and Romania with the same 1:0 score, 0:0 draw vs. Turkey and two loses 3:4 vs. Costa-Rica and 1:2 vs. Qatar. These are inconsistent results by all means. Before the upcoming match Cherchesov relies on Spartak Moscow's football players by calling-up to the national team six football players from Spartak Moscow, five football players from CSKA Moscow alongside with four football players from FK Rostov and Krasnodar each plus few players from another teams. The squad is quite predictable, probably except for Bucharov's presence who has been already dismissed from big football whereas he shows brilliant football in 2017.
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The Ivory Coast has failed at the Africa Cup of Nations having not progressed from the group. The Ivory Coast ended its 14-game unbeaten run by the loss to Morocco and was knocked out from the Africa Cup of Nations. This failure should make the Ivory Coast stronger as it has very solid squad and it doesn't like to lose. The team will tend to win, especially, in its first match after the disappointing performance at the Africa Cup of Nations where it seemed to be among favourites.
Russians and Africans met only once recording 1:1 draw on the 15th of August 2012. I believe that there is no favourite in the forthcoming match which can end in favour of any team. Thus, I pick a win of the Ivory Coast with the Asian handicap as the outcome of the clash.
Prediction for the match: Ivory Coast to win with +1.0 Asian handicap.
