
MOSCOW, Jan 24 the team of Poland on the eve of the play-off match of the 2022 World Cup qualification, believes the striker of the Russians and Dynamo Moscow Fyodor Smolov. This position is currently vacant. According to Polish media reports, Sousa's successor may be Ukrainian specialist Andriy Shevchenko, who left the post of coach of the Italian club Genoa in January. «They will support us, and we will be able to get a ticket to the World Cup. We also discussed this with Seba Szymanski. They are understandably worried, nervous. And it's not quite normal that in such a situation their national team does not have a head coach. But, by and large account, this is not our problem. It plays into our hands. We will try to take advantage of this,» the Dynamo media service quoted Smolov as saying. As part of the 2022 World Cup play-offs, the Russian team will meet with the Polish team. The game will take place on March 24 in Moscow. In case of victory, Valery Karpin's wards will reach the final of the mini-tournament, where the best team of the Sweden-Czech Republic pair will become their opponent.

