As the FUR website informs, on Thursday, 6 October the Russian U19 team (players born in or after 1998) played their opener at the mini-tournament of the UEFA European U19 Championship 2017 qualifying round in Belgium. Our team headed by Mikhail Galaktionov played in a draw against Finland – 1:1.

Russia – Finland 1:1 (0:0)

Goals: Lappalainen, 58 (0:1). Makhatadze, 88 (1:1).

Russia: Maximenko, Lapshov, Kalugin (Prudnikov, 73), Galanin (Khosonov, 68), Lomovitskiy, Makhatadze (c), Chalov, Oblyakov, Terekhov (Kuchaev, 64), Lelyukhin, Lysov.

Finland: Keto, А. Mäenpää, Halme, Varmanen, Lappalainen (Alanko, 70), Kairinen (c), Källman (Atakayi, 80), Soisalo, N. Mäenpää, Lindqvist, Mohamed.

Caution: Halme, 85.

Referees: Sebastian Colţescu (Romania), Radu Ghinguleac (Romania), Ruben Wyns (Belgium).

6 October. Belgium. KVV Thes Sport stadium. Tessenderlo . Attendance 100.

On 8 October Russia will play against Kazakhstan. On the same day Finland will face Belgium. The last match day will take place on 11 October.