World Cup's premiere stress leads us to...

Russia as the organizer, had the 'privilege' of the direcet participation to World Cup's finals without going through the qualification matches. But this has often been bad for the teams since for at least two years they are playing only friendly games that can't compare to the expectations of a World Cup final match.  So, the only idea we can get from Russia is through their friendly games at this time. They didn't have a good performance at first but they made a progress as the World Cup's start was on the way. It's actually a fact that Stanislav Cherchesov chose difficult opponents for his team so as to be well prepared. The most famous players in Russian's team are Igor Akinfeev, Yuri Zhirkov and Alan Dzagoev. 

On the other hand Saudi Arabia are the outsider of the league for most people. We had the chance to watch them in the preparation game against our National team and actually it was a quite sympathetic performance. 

Russia will play with the stress of being the favorite and that even a single mistake may be devastating. I am expecting for a careful performance from Russia since the lack of rhythm will play an important role at the start of the game. Saudi Arabia will play defensively. Everything shows that at the premiere of this World Cup we will stay under 2.5.