MARIBOR, November 19 (RIA Novosti) - Guus...
as it looked as if Guus Hiddink"s men were getting back into the game, Valter Birsa crossed, and Zlatko Dedic pounced to steer the ball past Akinfeev in the 43rd minute.Hiddink made two changes at the break, bringing off Renat Yanbaev for Sergei Semak, whose absence in the starting line-up was believed to be due to a slight injury, and Alexander Kerzhakov coming on for Tottenham"s Roman Pavlyuchenko.
Russia began the second half in more active fashion, but their hopes of getting back into the match were dealt a blow when Kerzhakov was given a straight red card after being judged to have kicked out at keeper Samir Handanovic. The Dynamo Moscow player claimed he was going for a loose ball.
Stuttgart striker Pavel Pogrebnyak replaced Everton"s Diniyar Bilyaletdinov and was immediately in the thick of things, Handanovic getting down to save his powerful header in the 77th minute.
With time running out for the desperate Russians, Chelsea"s
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