How many goals did Dzyuba score for the national team? Dzyuba entered the top ten top scorers in the history of the Russian championships. Personal life of Artem Dzyuba

Born on August 22, 1988 in Moscow. His father, a Ukrainian by nationality, served in the police, his mother worked as a salesperson in a grocery store near the Shchelkovskaya metro station. According to unconfirmed reports, it was there that Artem’s parents met. At first they lived in a communal apartment, after which they purchased their own home.

Artem Dzyuba in childhood. Photo: uznayvse.ru

The future forward of the Russian national team became interested in football in early childhood. At the age of eight, he was taken to the Spartak academy - the coaches saw great potential in the third-grader.

"Spartacus"

In 2005, on the recommendation of coach Evgeny Sidorov, Dzyuba was transferred to the adult team and taken to the Spartak reserve team. The newcomer showed himself well, and very soon he was sent to the red-white team. His debut match is a meeting between Spartak and Yekaterinburg Ural.

Artem Dzyuba, 2007. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

In his first season with the red-and-white team, Dzyuba scored five goals in 27 matches—for which he was awarded the status of “top scorer.” Spartak took second place in the national championship.

In 2009, there was a scandal in the footballer’s career - the player Vladimir Bystrov lost a large amount of money - about 23 thousand rubles - during a competition in Austria. Later, the money was found in Dzyuba’s personal belongings. Artem himself stated that he was framed. Largely because of this incident, the player was transferred to the Tom football club.

"Tom"

In the new team, Dzyuba predictably became the main striker - he scored ten goals during the season and eventually returned to Spartak.

"Spartak" 2.0

In the 2011/2012 season, Artem scored one of three goals in the most important match with the Swiss Basel (score 3:2 in favor of Spartak). In 2012, he received the captain's armband. For the first time in his new status, Dzyuba entered the field of the Petrovsky Stadium in St. Petersburg for a game with Zenit. The match ended with a victory for Spartak with a score of 3:2. That same year, Muscovites got a chance to play in the Champions League.

Artem Dzyuba, 2011. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

In the 2012/2013 season, Dziuba lost his position on the field to a newcomer from Nigeria, Emmanuel Emenike. And when the team’s head coach changed, Artem became a regular on the bench.

"Rostov"

In May 2013, Dzyuba scored his first two goals for the Rostov football club, where he moved on loan. In July, he scored a hat-trick in the match with Tom and again became the top scorer of the championship. As part of Rostov, Artem received his first trophy - the Russian Cup. At the end of the season he returned to Spartak, but not for long.

"Zenith"

In the fall of 2014, Dziuba’s contract with the Moscow club expired, and the footballer did not renew it. In 2015, Muscovites received 3.3 million euros, and Artem joined Zenit St. Petersburg.

In September 2015, as part of the blue-white-blue team, Dzyuba scored a goal against Spartak. The score on the scoreboard was equal, but the striker did not celebrate it - out of respect for his former, but still home team. In total, number 22 scored ten goals during the season.

Artem Dzyuba, 2016. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

On April 9, 2016, in a match with Perm Amkar, Artem Dzyuba scored his hundredth goal. In 2017, he became the 44th captain in the Russian history of the Zenit club - this was a statement made by the blue-white-blue head coach Mircea Lucescu before the start of training in Spain. In November, number 22 played his 100th match for Zenit, playing against Tosno.

On June 1, 2017, Roberto Mancini was appointed head coach of Zenit. The Italian was never able to find a common language with Dzyuba, and already in 2018 the forward was loaned until the end of the season to Arsenal Tula.

Arsenal (Tula)

After the transfer, the footballer’s statistics changed for the better - he played and scored goals at Arsenal. In April 2018, in an extremely important match with Zenit, it was Dzyuba who brought his new team a draw - in the 89th minute he equalized the score and, celebrating the goal, ran up to Mancini, turned his back and pointed his finger at his name on the jersey.

True, for the opportunity to take the field against the St. Petersburg team, Artem had to pay about ten million rubles - the rights to the player still belonged to Zenit, and, according to the terms of the agreement, Dzyuba, who was on loan, could play against the blue-white-blue only for money.

Russian team

In 2009, Artem Dzyuba took to the field for the first time as part of the country's youth team - scoring four goals in nine matches. In 2011, the player was included in the starting lineup, but only for a few matches. In 2014 - another invitation to the qualifying match for Euro 2016. Dzyuba scored his first goal for Russia in a game with the Liechtenstein team.

In September 2015, Dzyuba sent the ball into the goal of the Swedish team, bringing victory to the Russian team. A couple of days later, in a game with Liechtenstein, he performs the so-called “poker” - he scores four goals in a match - this achievement earned the Zenit player the title of the second player in the history of domestic football (USSR and Russia) to score more than three goals in a game as part of the national team. In the fall of 2015, in a game against Moldova, Dziuba scored the eighth goal in the tournament, setting a record for the number of goals in one cycle.

Artem Dzyuba, 2014. Photo: www.globallookpress.com

At the 2018 World Cup, in the first match against the Saudi Arabian national team, Dzyuba entered the field in the 70th minute and almost immediately scored a goal against the opponent, increasing the score to 3:0. In a game with a team from Egypt, the forward sent the ball into the goal in the 59th minute - Russia won with a score of 3:1. In the 1/8 finals, he scored the most important goal - this goal allowed our team to take the match to a penalty shootout and reach the quarterfinals.

At the end of the tournament, Artem Dzyuba and Denis Cheryshev were among the 11 players who made a breakthrough at the tournament - at the 2018 World Cup, the forward scored three goals and gave two assists. Without exaggeration, we can say that Artem Dzyuba was command symbol .

Personal life

Artem Dzyuba met his future wife Christina in Nizhny Novgorod. The girl was a fourth-year student at one of the local universities. Just a month after they met, the couple legalized their relationship; in 2013, their son Nikita was born.

Artem Dzyuba with his wife. Photo: uznayvse.ru

In March 2015, a video appeared in the Russian media in which the football player meets with TV presenter Maria Orzul. This almost destroyed the family, but the football player still managed to save the marriage. On February 26, 2016, Artem became a father for the second time - his son Maxim was born.

As Dzyuba himself says, in his free time from training, he plays video games, reads, and runs Instagram - in July 2018, he thanked his subscribers - their number reached a million. And this is not just like that - the striker of Zenit and the Russian national team is considered the highest paid player in the country - according to unofficial data, Dzyuba’s salary is 3.6 million euros per year, and his transfer value is seven million euros.

Artyom Dzyuba is a famous football player, forward of FC Zenit and the Russian national team. The current hope of Russian football began his football career with the Spartak club.

Family and childhood of Artem Dzyuba

In 1988, the future forward of the Russian national football team was born in one of the houses in Moscow. Artyom’s parents, due to the nature of their activities, had nothing to do with football. Father, Sergei, a Ukrainian by nationality, served in law enforcement agencies, Artem’s mother worked as a salesperson in a grocery store at the time she met her husband. At first the family lived in a communal apartment, then purchased their own home. In 1992, a new addition appeared to the family - a daughter, Olga, was born.

Artyom was fond of football from early childhood. At the age of 8, the child was already enrolled in the Spartak Academy. The coaches saw great potential in the boy, and Alexander Yartsev paid special attention to the young talent. It was with Alexander’s patronage that Artem Dzyuba’s sports career began.

The formation of football player Artem Dzyuba. FC "Spartak"

In 2005, Dzyuba moved to the reserve team of the “adult” team. Soon after his confident demonstration of talent, Artyom was allowed to train with the main team.

A year later, the athlete made his debut in the main team of Spartak, when the football club met with the Yekaterinburg team Ural in the match for the Russian Cup.

The young footballer officially joined the main team of FC Spartak in 2007, and in his first season he managed to score 5 goals in 27 matches, for which Dzyuba was awarded the status of “best scorer of the season.” “Spartak” took second place in the domestic championship, respectively, Artem Dzyuba became the silver medalist of the competition.

In 2009, during the team’s stay in Austria, Vladimir Bystrov, a club player, lost a large sum (23 thousand rubles), which was later found in Dziuba’s possession. Artyom reacted categorically: he didn’t take the money, he was set up.

In connection with the incident, Artyom was transferred to the Tom team, where he quickly gained the authority of his teammates and fans of the club. The young guy became the main striker, scoring 10 goals during the season. After the end of the season and demonstrating excellent results, Dzyuba returned to Spartak.

The 2011/2012 season was very successful for Dziuba’s career. He scored 1 of 3 goals in the match with the Swiss Basel (score 3:2 in favor of Spartak). In 2012, the forward was awarded the honor of wearing the captain's armband. The first match (away match with Zenit on May 6, 2012) under the new powers ended in a victory for Spartak with a score of 3:2.

All Artem Dzyuba's goals for Spartak

However, the football player's career soon began to decline. The footballer had to give way to a new player, Emmanuel Emenike, and when the head coach changed to Valery Karpin in November 2012, Dzyuba became a regular on the bench.

Further career of Artem Dzyuba. FC Zenit

In July 2013, Dzyuba moved to FC Rostov on loan, where in the first “battle” against Terek he scored two goals and led the team to victory. In the next match with Tom, whom he knew well, Artyom scored a hat-trick. As part of the Rostov team, the young football player was awarded a “silver” place at the Russian Championship with 17 goals, losing to Seydou Doumbia from CSKA. As part of Rostov, Dzyuba also won his first prize - the Russian Cup.

After a successful season, Artyom returned to Spartak. In the fall of 2014, the contract with the Moscow club ended, and Artyom refused to renew it because he received a more favorable offer from FC Zenit. The amount of the proposed contract reached €3.3 million, and in the summer of 2015 Artyom joined the legendary St. Petersburg team.

Artem Dzyuba about the reasons for moving to Zenit

In the first game against Dynamo (July 19, 2015), Dzyuba earned a penalty, converted by Hulk. Artem Dzyuba scored his first goal for Zenit during the match against Ural.

On September 26, 2015, Spartak and Zenit entered into a confrontation at the Moscow Otkritie Arena. In the 87th minute of the match, Zenit striker Artem Dzyuba, with the help of Oleg Shatov, equalized the score - 2:2, but out of respect for his former teammates did not celebrate the achievement.

During his first season as part of FC Zenit, Dziuba broke the Champions League record for the number of goals scored by Russians in one season: 6 goals, the last of which was a goal against FC Gent (the previous record belonged to Roman Shirokov).

Artem Dzyuba in the Russian national team

Since 2009, Dzyuba played for the country's youth team, scoring 4 goals in 9 matches. In 2011, the player was included in the second squad of the Russian national team, but in the fall he was accepted into the main team.

“Evening Urgant”: Dzyuba, Cheryshev and Slutsky demonstrate the new team uniform

Then a break followed, and only in September 2014 the young athlete took part in the national team as part of the qualifying match for the Euro 2016 Cup. His first goal was scored into the Liechtenstein team's net.

In September 2015, Dzyuba brilliantly scored against the Swedes, bringing victory to the Russian team. And a couple of days later, in a game with Liechtenstein, Dzyuba scored the so-called “poker” - 4 goals per match. This earned him the title of the second player in the history of domestic football (USSR and Russia) to score more than 3 goals per game (the first was Oleg Salenko with 5 goals in the match with the Cameroon national team).

Artyom was considered a promising young player who performed well both for Zenit and as part of the Russian national team. In the fall of 2015, in a game against Moldova, he scored the eighth goal in the tournament, setting a record for the number of goals scored in one cycle.

April 9, 2016 is a memorable date in the professional career of Artem Dzyuba. In the match with Amkar Perm he scored his 100th goal.

In the second game against the Egyptian national team, Dzyuba scored a goal in the 59th minute. The Russian team won with a score of 3:1. The footballer also scored a goal from the penalty spot during the match between Russia and Spain in the 1/8 finals.

The Arsenal forward scored his 88th goal in the RFPL. Who can he overtake in the list of top scorers in the near future?

Number of goals: 88 During his long career, Titov scored the same number of goals as Dzyuba, but we will still put him above Artyom. Firstly, Yegor still did not play as a forward. Secondly, Titov had significantly fewer goals from the penalty spot during his career than Dziuba. It's funny that both players started scoring goals in Spartak Moscow. Titov scored 87 out of 88 goals for the red and white team, leaving the last one to Khimki near Moscow.

Number of goals: 98 Igor Semshov is one of Dzyuba’s coaches at Arsenal Tula, but most fans associate him with Moscow clubs. During the Torpedo era in the Premier League, Igor was the undisputed leader and captain of the Muscovites; in their lineup, he scored more than half of all his goals (54). Then there was an equally long performance for Dynamo with a short break in St. Petersburg. I wonder if Artyom will be able to beat his coach’s result in the remaining eight matches? So far it looks like a sick fantasy, but it accelerates well.

Another Spartak hero from the list - Andrei Tikhonov - has changed many clubs. In addition to the RFPL, he had several foreign tours - in Israel and Kazakhstan, but this did not stop him from becoming one of the main scorers of Russian football. Tikhonov scored 68 goals for his native Spartak. Then he managed to get Khimki into the Premier League, and then became a hero of Samara fans, playing for the local Wings. Now he is coaching the Volga team, and next season there is every chance of seeing his club in the Russian top league.

Number of goals: 92 “Hey, Semak, let’s score,” army fans still remember the footballer. Semak played seriously for four Russian clubs, but the statistics at CSKA are especially impressive - 68 goals in 282 matches. That stage ended with a move to PSG, after which Semak never returned to his home club. But Semak already had a decent career: he became the champion of Russia several times, and took bronze at Euro 2008 in the national team. Now Semak is coaching Ufa, with which he is seventh in the RFPL, and in a few years he intends to head PSG. Well, at least that's what he plans.

Number of goals: 104 Hiddink called this forward a “sleeping giant,” but Pavlyuchenko certainly did not sleep on the field. Well, or I didn’t always sleep. Having ended up in the Moscow Spartak in the early 2000s, Roman scored 69 goals over several years. Then there was Euro 2008, after which he went to score goals on British soil. Returning to Russia, the forward found himself at Lokomotiv, but after a couple of seasons he left the club due to failed negotiations on a new contract.

After visiting clubs of a lower rank, Pavlyuchenko began this season in the second division with Moscow Ararat, with whom he very quickly terminated his contract under very strange circumstances. But the end to his career has not yet been set: Pavlyuchenko is the only one on the list, besides Dziuba, who can still improve his result.

Number of goals: 120 Record holder of the Russian Championship for the number of seasons in the Russian Championship: in his career there were as many as 20. The graduate of Rostov football has long been the standard of the “classic ten” in our football. He played at Loko for more than 10 seasons and became one of the main football players in the history of the railroad. Last season, the club gave him a farewell match in the Russian Championship: Loskov really wanted everything to be for real. Now the “king of free kicks” is trying to pass on his knowledge to the current Loko players. And, looking at some of the standards of Manu Fernandes and the Miranchuk brothers, you understand what he can do.

Number of goals: 130 Kirichenko almost never played for top Russian clubs (only CSKA can be considered this). However, this did not stop him from becoming the top scorer of the RFPL twice. “Rostov”, “Moscow”, “Saturn”: the footballer never found his team, wandering from club to club. But he scored consistently in each of them. So much so that he broke into the top three scorers of the Russian championships! More recently, Kirichenko helped Rostov create a football boom in the city, helping Berdyev on the coaching staff. Everything was going towards the fact that he would become his replacement as the main one, but some ridiculous story happened that led to Kirichenko leaving the club. According to myths, he did not contact the Rostov management on the right day. Well, we are waiting for Kirichenko at another club; he looked very solid on the coaching bench.

Number of goals: 139 Undoubtedly the main Russian striker of recent years only retired last season. It's hard to believe, but Kerzhakov was only four goals short of becoming the highest scoring player in the history of the Russian championships. It so happened that the forward found himself out of work at his beloved Zenit, and the upcoming record did not become a reason for him to leave his native St. Petersburg. Kerzhakov remained in the club system, remaining second on the list. Be that as it may, Alexander still became the top scorer in the history of Russian football - in terms of the total number of goals in all tournaments (233). And at the same time the best scorer in the history of Zenit and the Russian national team.

Number of goals: 143 A true legend of Volgograd football: do you remember many players who scored more than 100 goals for the provincial club? Veretennikov’s case is truly unique for Russian football, which makes it all the more pleasant to see him among the top scorers to this day. Just think about it, Veretennikov scored 141 of 143 goals for Rotor Volgograd. After that period, Oleg spent more than 10 more seasons as a football player, but never returned to the top level. Rotor did not return to it either. Oleg ended his career in the same Volgograd - in the amateur league. But the status of the king of the Russian Premier League still remains with him: no one simply could score more than him!

Number of goals: 88

Over the course of his long career, Titov scored as many goals as Dzyuba did, but we will still put him above Artyom. Firstly, Yegor still did not play as a forward. Secondly, Titov had significantly fewer goals from the penalty spot during his career than Dziuba. It's funny that both players started scoring goals in Spartak Moscow. Titov scored 87 out of 88 goals for the red and white team, leaving the last one to Khimki near Moscow.

Dzyuba's first goal, two deletions, two missed penalties. How is this in general?

Repent if you didn’t include the match between Amkar and Arsenal on Friday afternoon.

7-8th place: ,

Number of goals: 98

Igor Semshov is one of Dzyuba’s coaches at Arsenal Tula, but most fans associate him with Moscow clubs. During the Torpedo era in the Premier League, Igor was the undisputed leader and captain of the Muscovites; in their lineup, he scored more than half of all his goals (54). Then there was an equally long performance for Dynamo with a short break in St. Petersburg. I wonder if Artyom will be able to beat his coach’s result in the remaining eight matches? So far it looks like a sick fantasy, but it accelerates well.

Another Spartak hero from the list, Andrei Tikhonov, has changed many clubs. In addition to the RFPL, he had several foreign tours - to Israel and Kazakhstan, but this did not stop him from becoming one of the main scorers of Russian football. Tikhonov scored 68 goals for his native Spartak. Then he managed to get Khimki into the Premier League, and then became a hero of Samara fans, playing for the local Wings. Now he is coaching the Volga team, and next season there is every chance of seeing his club in the Russian top league.

6th place:

Number of goals: 102

“Hey, Semak, let’s score,” army fans still remember the footballer. Semak played seriously for four Russian clubs, but the statistics at CSKA are especially impressive - 68 goals in 282 matches. That stage ended with a move to PSG, after which Semak never returned to his home club. But Semak already had a decent career: he became the champion of Russia several times, and took bronze at Euro 2008 in the national team. Now Semak is coaching Ufa, with which he is seventh in the RFPL, and in a few years he intends to head PSG. Well, at least that's what he plans.

5th place:

Number of goals: 104

Hiddink called this forward a “sleeping giant,” but Pavlyuchenko certainly did not sleep on the field. Well, or I didn’t always sleep. Having ended up in the Moscow Spartak in the early 2000s, Roman scored 69 goals over several years. Then there was Euro 2008, after which he went to score goals on British soil. Returning to Russia, the forward found himself at Lokomotiv, but after a couple of seasons he left the club due to failed negotiations on a new contract.

4th place:

Number of goals: 120

The record holder of the Russian Championship for the number of seasons in the Russian Championship: in his career there were as many as 20. The graduate of Rostov football has long been the standard of the “classic ten” in our football. He played at Loko for more than 10 seasons and became one of the main football players in the history of the railroad. Last season, the club gave him a farewell match in the Russian Championship: Loskov really wanted everything to be for real. Now the “king of free kicks” is trying to pass on his knowledge to the current Loko players. And, looking at some of the standards of Manu Fernandes and the Miranchuk brothers, you understand what he can do.

3rd place:

Number of goals: 130

Kirichenko almost never played for top Russian clubs (only CSKA can be considered this). However, this did not stop him from becoming the top scorer of the RFPL twice. “Rostov”, “Moscow”, “Saturn”: the footballer never found his team, wandering from club to club. But he scored consistently in each of them. So much so that he broke into the top three scorers of the Russian championships! More recently, Kirichenko helped Rostov create a football boom in the city, helping Berdyev on the coaching staff. Everything was going towards the fact that he would become his replacement as the main one, but some ridiculous story happened that led to Kirichenko leaving the club. According to myths, he did not contact the Rostov management on the right day. Well, we are waiting for Kirichenko at another club; he looked very solid on the coaching bench.

2nd place:

Number of goals: 139

Undoubtedly, the main Russian striker of recent years only retired last season. It's hard to believe, but Kerzhakov was only four goals short of becoming the highest scoring player in the history of the Russian championships. It so happened that the forward found himself out of work at his beloved Zenit, and the upcoming record did not become a reason for him to leave his native St. Petersburg. Kerzhakov remained in the club system, remaining second on the list. Be that as it may, Alexander still became the top scorer in the history of Russian football - in terms of the total number of goals in all tournaments (233). And at the same time the best scorer in the history of Zenit and the Russian national team.

1st place:

Number of goals: 143

A true legend of Volgograd football: do you remember many players who scored more than 100 goals for the provincial club? Veretennikov’s case is truly unique for Russian football, which makes it all the more pleasant to see him among the top scorers to this day. Just think about it, Veretennikov scored 141 of 143 goals for Rotor Volgograd. After that period, Oleg spent more than 10 more seasons as a football player, but never returned to the top level. Rotor did not return to it either. Oleg ended his career in the same Volgograd - in the amateur league. But the status of the king of the Russian Premier League still remains with him: no one simply could score more than him!

Artem Dzyuba scored two goals in two matches for the Russian national team at the World Cup. Artem Dzyuba is the best player of the national team according to InStat Football statistics in the match with Egypt. Artem Dzyuba inspires the national team players with incendiary speeches and says that there are 23 brothers on the team. Artem Dzyuba... Now no one will remember that at the beginning of the year, when there was nothing left before the World Cup, the forward was “written off” from football, once again. And again he managed to rise up and more than loudly declare himself - now in front of fans around the world.

Drifts of Udelnaya as another “verdict”

In January, when the Zenit players returned from vacation, it turned out that Roberto Mancini did not need Artem Dzyuba at all. The Italian coach had rarely put him in the starting lineup before (in 15 matches he was mostly a substitute), and then he completely refused to take him to the training camp in the UAE. Artem trained at the Zenit base in Udelnaya, littered with snowdrifts, together with Oleg Shatov (another "outcast") and young players of Zenit-2, whom Konstantin Zyryanov began to train. The future of the striker, whom fans again began to disapprove of, recalling his Spartak past, was painted in gloomy colors: either exile to a farm club with the same salary, or another loan. But who will take a player who needs to be paid a lot and who has scored one goal in the first part of the season? Miodrag Bozovic, who had already coached Dzyuba in Rostov, where he was forced to go on loan from Spartak in 2013, came to the rescue. There, Dzyuba scored 17 goals and almost became the top scorer of the Russian championship, losing the championship only to the army player Seydou Doumbia. And most importantly, he won his first trophy (Russian Cup). Before this, the forward’s career already included a loan spell at Tom, where he also performed well under the leadership of Valery Nepomniachtchi (14 goals). Dziuba is always ready for difficulties. And another reincarnation took place at Arsenal. If at Zenit Artem sat on the bench, not feeling trust from Mancini, then at Arsenal he scored six goals against his opponents in ten matches, and even took away the victory from the blue-white-blues in the match held in Tula (3:3 ). For the 10 million rubles that the Tula residents paid Zenit so that Dzyuba could take the field.

So what's the result? Stanislav Cherchesov included the forward in the application of the national team, which was to compete at the home World Cup. And this despite the fact that in the last year he counted more on Anton Zabolotny from Zenit (but he didn’t score against Mancini at all), and Dzyuba did not take part in the Confederations Cup, having dropped out of the team either due to injury or whether because of a conflict with the coach, and even showed Cherchesov his mustache on Instagram. Salamych, known for his toughness, compromised, deciding that the forward, who pulled himself out of the swamp by his hair once again in his career, would definitely benefit the team. Moreover, there was no one to score (Alexander Kokorin, with whom Dzyuba showed Cherchesov a mustache, was injured).

Best in wrestling and in the line of fire

Dzyuba, who appreciated the coach’s gesture, made his “first move” even before the Russian team began performing at the tournament. He gave a “fiery” interview, asking journalists not to stir up passions due to unsuccessful results in friendly matches (seven games without a win), but to judge the team based on the results of the main tournament. And when it began, he did everything to ensure that these judgments were exclusively laudatory in nature - including towards himself.

A career in which his fate often hung in the balance taught Artem to value every chance. Coming on as a substitute (70th minute) in the opening match of the World Cup with Saudi Arabia, he scored with his first touch- at the suggestion of Alexander Golovin. In a signature manner: opening up for a pass and outplaying the defender in the air. In that game, Artem also helped Denis Cheryshev to distinguish himself, played well in the play-by-play and, one might say, crushed the tired Saudis, which was what was required of him. In any case, after Dzyuba’s goal (the third in a row), they stopped resisting.

But Artem’s performance in the game with Egypt, in which Cherchesov decided to release him in the starting lineup (regardless of how Fedor Smolov played against Arabia, and he played poorly - this was simply the tactical plan): according to InStat Football, Dzyuba He entered into martial arts 55 times and won 24 of them, showing the best result at the World Championship among all players. In total, the 29-year-old forward has 93 TTDs, 56 of them successful. He especially excelled in constructive passes (23 out of 28, almost all of them were accurate, except those forward), aerial combat (16 wins out of 28), even successful dribbles happened - two out of three, which is not always typical for him. But most importantly, Artem provided the depth of the Russian team’s attack when it was necessary to quickly move the ball forward, taking into account the opponent’s pressure on the goal, so that the defending players could catch their breath, constrained the actions of the defenders, clung to the ball and played the classic “post”, following Cherchesov’s tactical instructions. Of the three goals of the Russian national team, Dzyuba is credited with one, which he scored in the 62nd minute from a long pass from Ilya Kutepov, spending all three touches on everything - the level of a top forward. But the first ball, which flew into the Pharaohs’ goal from the foot of their captain Ahmed Fathi, was half the merit of Artem, who forced the guard to make a mistake. The moment became a turning point.

To be continued?

After the game, Dzyuba said that “23 brothers” play in the Russian national team, and the players themselves are happy people who have dreamed of such a development of events since childhood. Well, he finished off that the impudent thought appeared - to take first place in the group. Although now she doesn't seem impudent. Even taking into account the fact that she was voiced by Dzyuba.

It is clear that the most frantic forward of our football will not need another loan and he will start the new season in the Zenit jersey, with which he is contracted. Moreover, Sergei Semak has already made it clear: he is waiting for Dzyuba. I wonder what statistics the rebel, who has more than once gotten out of such crisis situations where another would have broken down, forcing those around him to change their opinion of himself to the opposite, will produce in the upcoming season. But it’s too early to talk about this, since Dziuba did not say his last word at the World Championships.

Both in the literal sense and in terms of goals, let’s hope.

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