Kasaev Substitute Fayzulin in the National Team of Russia

There is a substitution in the National Team of Russia players list for the preparation and participation in EURO 2016 Qualifying Matches against Moldova (9 October, Chisinau, 21:45 Moscow time) and Montenegro (12 October, Moscow, 19:00 Moscow time) – instead of Zenit midfield Victor Fayzulin  Alan Kasaev was invited to the National Team from Lokomotiv Moscow.

In total there are 24 players in this players list.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St.Petersburg), Artem Rebrov (Spartak Mocsow).

Defenders: Alexey Berezutskiy, Vasily Berezutskiy, Sergey Ignashevich (all – CSKA Moscow), Yury Zhirkov (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Oleg Kuzmin (Rubin Kazan), Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St.Petersburg).

Midfield: Denis Glushakov, Roman Shirokov (both – Spartak Moscow), Igor Denisov, Alexey Ionov (both – Dynamo Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Alan Kasaev, Alexander Samedov, Dmitry Tarasov (all - Lokomotiv), Pavel Mamaev (Krasnodar), Oleg Shatov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Denis Cheryshev (Real Madrid, Spain).

Forwards: Artem Dzyuba (Zenit St.Petersburg), Alexander Kokorin (Dynamo Moscow), Fedor Smolov (Krasnodar).

The players of Leonid Slutskiy will start preparation for the matches on Monday, 5 October.