England national team are set to face Russia on their Euro 2016 opener this weekend and head coach, Roy Hodgson is looking confident with the quality his team have. Despite having quite a lot of young players who haven't have much experience in major international tournament, Hodgson is not worried that Three Lions players will be experiencing any stage fright.

Disappointing news arrived for Dynamo Moscow's midfielder, Igor Denisov as his dream of participating in this year's Euro with his national side, Russia, vanished. Denisov picked up an injury during Russia's latest friendly fixture against Serbia last Sunday, which ended in a 1-1 draw.

Russia finally gave up on Fabio Capello in July 2015 when in danger of missing out on France. CSKA Moscow's Leonid Slutsky took over and his 4-2-3-1 – and man-management – suited the players much better.

Russia national team head coach, Leonid Slutski has already picked his final 23 man squad for upcoming Euro 2016 and there were some famous names that didn't make the cut. Among several absentees, the names who might surprised many football enthusiasts are Yuri Zhirkov along with Aleksandr Kerzhakov.

After much speculation regarding his future, Fabio Capello finally get a clarity about it as his contract as Russia national team head coach has ended by mutual consent. This conclusion has been predicted to happen since quite a while as many people in the country were not satisfied with Russia's recent results under Capello's reign.

Recent controversial bribing scandal that struck FIFA, leading to several high ranks staff being arrested along with Sepp Blatter's resignation apparently doesn't give much concern for Russia regarding their status as World Cup 2018 host.

Russia's ambition in grabbing all three points from their latest Euro 2016 qualifier fixture were halted as they only picked up a point against Moldova. Playing at home, Russia were determined in snatching all three points, but it was far from an easy task as their opponent were resilient on that tie.

Sweden failed to pick up all three points from their latest Euro 2016 qualifier match after being held at home by Russia. Drawing their opening game against Austria, Sweden were keen on redeeming themselves in front of their home crowd.

Russia got their Euro 2016 qualifier flying as they grabbed a convincing home victory over lowly Liechtenstein side on Monday. The home side immediately set themselves on an attacking mode as they are keen on grabbing an early goal.

Algeria made their way into the knock out stages of World Cup 2014 for the first time in their history despite only grabbing a point from their final group match against Russia. Both teams are chasing for a win on that last Group H tie and it was actually Russia that had a brighter start as they got themselves in front after Aleksandr Kokorin scored on six minutes.

Belgium making their way into the knock out stages of World Cup 2014 after picking up their second win in group H, by defeating Russia this weekend. After grabbing a late victory over Algeria on their opening fixture, Belgium were keen on snatching another three points on Sunday.

Russia and Korea failed to grab three points on their World Cup 2014 opening fixture as both teams shared a point on their battle. Knowing that the group favorite Belgium had already won their match, both Rusia and Korea were pushing hard in search for victory.