Midfielder of the Russian national football team Danil Glebov expressed hope that there will be less negativity from fans around the national team.

The Russian national team will play a friendly match with Cuba on November 20 in Volgograd, the start of the match is scheduled for 19:30 (Moscow time).

“It’s like this in my head: it doesn’t matter who we play with.” There must be a mood. I understand that after Cameroon everyone was happy, after Kenya they were ready to devour each of us. The motivation is that if, God forbid, we don’t beat Kenya, there will be a lot of negativity against the team and the coach. I don’t want to read or hear this. We need positivity, for this we need victory.

It is clear that these are friendly matches, but when going to Kenya, you need to think not about the level of Kenya, but about yourself and play your own football. You have to beat these teams so as not to hear bad things about yourself. It is clear that if they won, they would say that they beat some buns, but overall I would like there to be less negativity around the team.

— Do you follow what they say and write?

“It happens that I watch the news and hear what they’re saying on TV,” RB Sport quotes Glebov as saying.