the final whistle in the opening of the twenty eighteen fifo world cup just sounded fantastic start for those rushing saudi arabia five nil to claim all report. from across the globe in force in moscow reveling in the festive atmosphere r.t. is in the thick of the action as the world turns its attention to international football's biggest event back stadiums and fans. are on the pitch and the play is the biggest country on the planet and all special studios in the hope cities will come to all of you. up twenty.

plus one of the best minds in the game manchester united manager joe c. gives us his take on tomorrow's match between spain portugal. a very warm welcome from the new center in moscow this thursday june the fourth think you can get up to speed on global development in r t dot com though the greatest event anglo both sport house finally become the twenty eighteen world cup here in russia the entire planet is expected to watch the tournament over the next month t marty is ready to bring you every moment that matters so let's go live now to our world cup hates queue overlooking central moscow and find out what

happened on match day one. lynn. lynn. well russia had a magical start here in moscow they knew why i decided to make me feel the final the actual back the opening match and i went he said i'll take the right thank you michael take that one again yeah. we talked about this and how after the saudi team was in the press. and done that. and we also talked about the score that they should go and get four and five and they think that i mean they left it late it was three nil into the ninetieth minute and then this court threw it in the three minutes i was so it was added on but it was a fair result and it's really it's fantastic for for the for the championships that

it started. and also for fun for the championship and shown to russia. now an atmosphere around it that's a little bit of trust in the team because that's a comprehensive world cup winning show on the atmosphere again i can fail anything on the streets here is that people stand just celebrating let's say from some of the fans not. the eat . the economy was. ok we're just looking at some of the coach so he's one of the space going to probably this might as well to say. ok i think we can go.

we've got saying to show. of course there are three more but we can talk about nice day let's talk about the first one i think or stills of it but we saw it didn't make it was a great headed for an early on after twelve minutes it was and. it was a period of the game where we could see that the saudis really had trouble defending and russia took great actors i want to play jordan and the cross came in and all the saudis defendants were looking at the ball and then in the back post with two russian free one of them. we got pictures not video so this is the first college you mentioned that rice was in the far post it's not that classic cars on this this is a i really enjoyed disco cherish if you came in instead of the injured. and he really took his turn he scored two goals that was the first one the chip over the defender and then he put it in some corner was class but the second goal

in the same kind of area went past one of the saudi defend this and with this outside food just coated up in the top corner made it for neil. and we're thinking at that time that's it that's going to be the end result but then the plan in between his goals is well we had a march in super he came with a small of a great sense of finishing my studies when i. talk about small often. at half time the only thing he had gone right for him was one small very easy pass everything else hit it wasn't great and it continued in the second half so he got shafted chewed it and i think honestly think that it was it was it was first touch and it was ahead of taxes he strained but it changed the game for russia that he came on because russia then became a little bit more direct in their in their approach of the game and i think now the manager he has got

a positive selection problem because what is going to. for the next game the players he put on all three of them came on and made a really great impression so let's see how he does but let the russians now enjoy the five nil ok and we should also mention it ended good free kick there. again another classy finish it was a very good finish but again that's a given nit picking you can always find mistakes and and the saudi defense saw that the wall was in the right position and one of them talked out of the way could have head of the ball away and left the goalkeeper you know was stranded you know five there is is probably the fair. result and it should it gives a correct picture of what kind of a game the opening match of these world cups was and you know russia they've set the tone yeah sure everybody else to go out there and squash but all the fans think of next i wonder what will they be expecting when i rushed to egypt next was a let's go to some of the fans now and the fans in the center of moscow i think

he's down there with i'm imagining quite some celebrations you saw. in the game and also in the final whistle. one of the. first simply the most significant. game to. look. at least.

they didn't want nothing to do with i mean i think just i think i really i mean you look. at the atlas and you go it does look like you couldn't get a ticket for the guy being in that found zone was that the next best thing. at least in their sleep because they didn't have a feeling like you know. like here in the stadium i'm feeling any mystic. pizza in the statements. were just. cheering me up. and. you're like you're.

just. like oh thank you he got out he goes down there down at the fan zone in central moscow plenty of celebrations to come i'm sure during the course of the places when i joined again by using marino the match united manager he's back with us off the watching that game what a start for russia jos yeah it was good but. before the match was speaking about. the russians to be so pessimistic and i don't think you have you you don't have a reason to be super optimistic. be happy with victory would score well knows that the rules can be important in case for example you finish with the same number of points let's see it. but not not to be optimistic because i was sold the disappointed me i watched. against germany i know

it was a friendly but against seven to develop better than than today which passes their game don't you like then as a manager which areas would you like to see them improve you know i think that's the reality of their football probably the reality of their championship the majority of the players they play in the three riyad clubs and probably that's that's a level i cannot say i know that some of the players that went to spain we do objective to play some matches in the didn't even in lower level a club so probably this is their level but i think the russians they did they did fine because they used their strength they were compact defensively they tried to find some weaknesses this for a couple of balls in the first half and then game over is was just to control what about the the manager's work the substitutions that he made and i was forced to

just means chaco if caught in you. and he put a cherry share five and then he can't score two goals and super came on the score two goals and that's that's always a great feeling for us manners as when you make a change and and that works but i always say that when we do it we do it for good. sometimes doesn't work sometimes it does but today i think even forty years on self-confidence for his own self-esteem probably for his credibility amongst the for the russian fans that's the best thing that can happen to to the manager i think it changed the team in relation to the match i watch. in austria he played beads with the back four ricci's normal against a team like like like saudi. i think was playing quite well but when you come out the fact that goal of in. go to a more central position i think it helped the team the team become better golovin

is a playmaker is a pick that gives the dynamic of the two. then he said sheriff is is a fast boy on on the wing more a winner than ten dollars in a stretch the game more than golovin so i think the change worked perfectly and then zuber physically is very very strong but do you think he's giving himself a better selection proppant or a challenge for the next game a smaller force he was not in text dunn exist in this game he didn't play well and now it with zucker came in on and i would change the game a little bit in the way they played but it was more effective for soup is a striker is what you call old fashion a striker is good in is good in the box i would see if rush is going to be dominant like they were today and the control i think he can be effective what i don't see in zoom way is when russia has to play against better teams and probably the striker will be further from the first goal in the areas i don't see as do what we

did not for the i nor the words of all of the late today when he still sort of keep faith in him and hope that he's he's picking up his game the whole we managers reality like i used to say in the good sense of the world sometimes about a bit of a strange animal sometimes we see a seems that other people doesn't see and other people see things that we don't see and sometimes we really believe in some players that we don't believe in others and . i really believe that that's just as of a trust well off i think you can hold the ball i think technically is not the bads is not a bad player at all so probably not because of one match specially against a team like saudi that's just as obvious what a change is why do you think his confidence faded slightly today a small of a front because he had you were saying that you seem to play one good short pass today i think he was doing today do you think you know it's again it's the expectations and it's pressure so obviously he's a he's a he's

a big man in this team he system. player and they just didn't have what it takes to be a star player star players must go out in my opinion and have a very high minimum level and for me he was a disappointment today he had one pass in the first half which is a for your past yeah success yeah i agree i agree but i think the managers will go more in the direction of what we did as a team we did it as a team we were in control since the beginning we've got a great result we change the expectations we change the negativity around the team probably juber use full of confidence now but i wouldn't be surprised if you keep small of in the team and can do with these and be shown in the positive feeling i have you on the bench you can come and you can change the game so i don't think he's going to is going to change much what i think he has really to think is that he's better than ten soldi and why he's better than egypt so so what about the

fanciful defensively i felt that of course he didn't have any problems i think in nashville which was clever in the way where you control well the position of the line he didn't feel that there were to fret so we didn't brought that team to back . i think he has to do that when you plays against governor when he plays against what is because in nashville and all the defensive players there are not really fast even mario and all marty for many many years. marty's is a better we. then the defensive fullback zuckoff is a little bit of the same so you few want to keep the back four it has to drop the line a little bit back to play against salah to play against cover to play against wireless and again the saw the players that were not full strength experimented and the last four or five games with three of the five in the back for the back. do you think he

he's convinced. i saw the performance today which former formation he would play i think more of the four of the five is more the position of the block. these voices there were not a threat. they had some some skill they had some good football in short spaces but they were not aggressive they were not physical they didn't have the power to attack even the space. is super fast. if you think against your will when he plays against us and i think at least at least against against russia as you cover and swat is they're fast they're clever the way that that the space behind defenders the distances between defender so i think russia has to drop the block a little a little bit more in the way where you're not sure which feels more comfortable ok well i think we can see the three last goals that we scored this afternoon we did

see the first so you so let's hope we can motion pictures cammy of those last three goals. joe is a good finish that was overcoming almost an almost i think it was his only source his first thoughts and convinced of that. and this this call i love this call to see our side for top four and you know he didn't start the game and as soon as he came on. and this free kick this is what i'm talking about. but cherish it for soon as he came out he was he was he was just a test to prove to the manager that it was a wrong decision not to play him i thought he was he was by a long way he was the best player on the pitch and scoring two goals and the intent that he showed he wanted a really really wanted to do world today. and i think his father he must be very very proud he is far from a player as well we had the pleasure of of his company when we visited it nice to know. and i know he must be very problematic he played so well he would be your

pick for man of the match. i think the most influential player was was going to be in he was in control he was he was the one that i believe had more purges in the ball. basically all. the organized football they played the best thing for them is to be to be on the bench and to come in and to score two goals and all of. both great actions eldad between both but i think. dennis was was really good he made a good so good impact to change the direction of the football the world play a more objective more vertical drop goal of into the best positions where he feels more comfortable saw let me also. defend my side of the match chatters off. because you have as you may see made the right changes and it says it is really sad so much stick in the russian press so much that tomorrow is going to

be all different and we should like the manager in india how important or how big a blow to to russia do you think that is i think he's creative. probably like a little bit of discipline on the pitch probably outside the pitch to he could be a much better played in years he could be for sure a much better player when they come on and i play against seymour and i was like twenty i was in intense we play here in champions league you was really a good prospect i think you didn't develop enough. i don't think he's a player for ninety minutes i don't think he is a play to play every match in the world cup but he is one player less. than they have in the play with qualities that they don't have a lot so i think they will miss him yes and for me from what i saw from the stands probably you even feel better than me watching on on television i think is a real string he had no egos at all we saw the we saw the replay and he's running

and he pulls up and you know exactly what's hadn't seen. so you know i don't see it on his face when he went and i don't sell your soul takes over if you don't know this but it takes about six weeks to recover from a hamstring injury and the world cup is not six weeks long so i don't think this if it is a hamstring i don't think there's a chance that he would play ok all right we'll talk more about the match in a second of course the world cup wouldn't be complete without a beautiful opening ceremony but it robbie williams performed a string of hits too including let me entertain you in brazil legend also now there was also there having another look at the goal so you are that good. they let a child take an opening kick say one pass the ball to world cup mascot and here's what president vladimir putin said when he welcomed everybody at the ceremony. but you don't wait for him out just think without exaggeration there are billions of us devoted fans and regardless of where we live and what traditions we follow football

brings us together in one single team. how we oughta manage to grab a word say with the thief present president today gianni infantino he was pretty enthusiastic about the tournament and what's ahead over the next two weeks. caught up with. the whole world cup would be the best ever i'm sure when i see it and then to see as and. when i see how russia is prepared to our moscow strip for this game how everyone is looking forward to that. i am convinced enjoy every second of it supports your team for. all the pitch the sights but the motivation certainly there. was the opening game then today russia winning at five nearly against the saudis we can now turn our attention to what is perhaps the pick of the first round ties because portugal play spain down in sochi that's kicking off tomorrow we've got the perfect man to talk about it so you have a way because you've got a portugal fan enjoys

a marine ac what are your thoughts on about. m.r.i. scan. a close run thing he's got the edge he thinks. i wouldn't be surprised with any result at all i think portugal can go and win against spain as in spain of course they can win again portugal and the draw will be more than a normal result i think they are. two very good teams spain probably a better team than us. solutions but us towards. portugal is quite a solid team i think better than the team that one day you will see more talented young players in the team. so i think probably the group phase one of the best matches that we can become sure and it's going to say of course portugal have run out. here but spain are so much. and are seeing. one singles ronaldo in real madrid another thing is wrong although in the

portuguese national team there are two different teams present me with sets real madrid is a better team we don't have more regional test on the cross we don't have. a muscle and kind of help to to attack and to produce as much as they do we don't have. a nine or a fake nine like been so much to play together with swede cristiana so i think. that avatar is because it is a different one but he is the leader of the national team as i was saying. our team is quiets quite solid quite comfortable players with a good personality players. we would self-esteem not afraid to play against anyone so i think portugal can can do good so they are also players when those how you win the tournament. and they are finding european champions have that gives them or give them a step to. use to say that status ensurance they don't win matches. titles

but helps a little bit that self-esteem and confidence and i think the portuguese team has that that's not what about all this this sharp object. certainly appeared yesterday in the spring camp with the sacking of the take. we call a power play i think it is a little bit of a power play from from the new president. how is that going to affect the players do you think. honestly i don't think will affect the players too much. seeing. players of that level that come to the world cup this think about about. make history do something incredible for their country for their career for their story i think. they will give as much as they can does not always the manager i don't think that's the point i think the point is it's a sad scene for

a manager that's. good with a very good qualification period and was preparing the team also for a dream for it for himself and probably because of something that could be done in a different we penned in by every handed ice and by everyone if he's through our work time know that. the president of the football association know about the decision of of julian to go to your madrid no a couple of minutes before the official statement of real madrid i think the process was was totally wrong because for example last year enough to sack him enough just to create this situation which is going to go on and on and on. i don't know if to say i can say for example that two years ago and trying to quantify was they telling manager in the euros everybody knew that in the end of the euros he

was going to chelsea everything. found it absolutely normal until you give us past two years on the country and when it was over he moved to chelsea and everything was was fine so i think it was just about about the process the way the ways things the way things happened but for me is the law protecting that place for another year or years is a clever guy is an experienced man not as a manager but you know as simple will you be able to have the same voice in the dressing room and and keep sort of the development of the team that the particular people he started with a evidence that i was you saw if you go back i think we different players different generations but spain today is the spain of lawyers are going is when they want to unify the first time and then come the basket and then a second generation of players and now will send generation of players and is basically the same football these basically the same process what they're doing in

the use level where finally you have awards and look at their goal was in in their in their football association everything is connected in the same in the same direction of the same football they play i don't think will be a huge draw for them but i think the match tomorrow probably. to keep sings calm i think they need that they need the positive is what i've been making a case for yesterday and even today that you know the players have the quality they can play the game ninety minutes no problem but because this is a story that's going to stay for every day all the way throughout the world cup they're going to be so second that that might get in a later stage have an effect on the players. i think a good thing to be tomorrow kills everything at the field tomorrow. everything we are speaking about it can create a difficult situation for them but the group phase i think doesn't matter the

result a moral they're going to to do. so they're going to have like a couple of weeks to. digest the situation and to be ready for the call by saying spain we gather all we'd like to thank you always a becomes obsolete can't wait for can i see mr truro that's ok i think waiting for and then obviously then my plate for the next show plenty to look forward to three games tomorrow guys thanks for being told we've got to clear off now after one of the better work because that program continues but thanks for watching it i'm robyn williams started this but let me and it's i need i think it is night time to pass and i.

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