Karpin explained why Alexey Miranchuk will start the match against Cameroon on the bench

The head coach of the Russian national football team, Valery Karpin, said that the Italian Atalanta midfielder Alexei Miranchuk still lacks game tone.

The Russian team will play a friendly match with the Cameroon team on Thursday. The meeting will take place at the Dynamo stadium in Moscow and will begin at 19:00. Miranchuk will start the game on the bench.

— How many minutes is Miranchuk ready to take the field?

– I think that physically he is just ready for 60-70-80 minutes. Another thing is that there is not enough gaming tone. Even during the selection, when he arrived, it was clear that in the first game for the national team there was not enough tone, in the second game it was better.

— How do you see the team’s football? The three midfielders stand out as they are strong in destruction.

– So it seems. Initially, you need to catch up with the physically strong players of the Cameroon national team. Let’s call it this: “First the muscles on the field, and then maybe the fantasy guys.” Let’s see what comes of this.

— The most important principle by which you chose the starting lineup?

— We saw in the match with the Qatar team that physical condition decides a lot. While we had strength in the first half and while we felt good, a lot happened. Then we got hooked, the end of the first half was worse than the first 30 minutes,” Match TV quotes Karpin.

Watch the live broadcast of the match on the Match TV channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.

Friendly match. Russia – Cameroon