The Russian students’ national futsal team, thanks to the victory over the Czech team (6-2), is in the semi-finals of the World Students’ Championship in Kazakhstan.

The most dangerous moment of the starting segment of the meeting occurs at the gates of Nikolay Balashov. The kick of the Czech David Cherniy goes to one bar, and then rebounds to the other. The goal attack of our team happens in the 10^th minute. Andrey Ponkratov breaks through the whole pitch, escaping the defenders, tightly sends the ball into the net. Two minutes later David Drozd gets a chance to restore the equality, but at the distance of a couple of meters kicks above the gate.

Russian players try to open the defense of the rivals through “set-pieces” – the Czechs provide us with this opportunity all the time, having five fouls to the end, but the goal happens only at the end of the last minute of the half. Andrey Sokolom scores with a low kick to the gate of Yanechka.

The second half of the game was even richer in moments. After the exchange of dangerous moments, on the 27^th minute Sergey Orlov scored, followed by Ponkratov who met a cross through an out combination, and Artem Niyazov on the 29^th minute makes the difference really large, scoring under the crossbar.

The Czechs answer a minute later with Mazar’s goal, and the next ball of the Russian national team would occur on the 35^th minute. After, Denisov scores a penalty but on the 38^th minute Pavel Drozd will upset our goalkeeper Albert Tsayder who just entered the pitch.

The remaining time the team of Sergey Skorovich attacked actively, but they couldn’t increase the advantage any more.

The students’ team of Russia celebrates the victory (6-2) and passes to the semi-final of the World Championship in Kazakhstan!

Russian Futsal Association