Russia vs England Online Live Scores: Euro 2008 Qualifiers

England and Russia will face each other on 17 October in the qualifying round match of EURO 2008. The match set to take place in Russia. Both teams are now under pressure. Though England stands second in group E after Croatia, they could not yet ensure their entrance in EURO 2008. Russia stands third in group E with 18 points, just 2 points short to England having three matches at hand. So, the main battle in this group is now between England and Russia.

England has been playing tremendously well in the last few qualifying matches. England won their last four matches in qualifying round of EURO 2008 by 3-0. Last month they defeated Russia in the home match by 3-0. No doubt, England is now in good form and it would be hard for Russia to stop the inform England. The only worry of England is that some of their key players are out of the squad because of injury. Gary Neville, David Beckham, Carrick and Owen Hargreaves will miss the matches. England will play against Estonia on 13 October before the match against Russia. So, England has to play two matches in the next week.

However, England has some good news as well. Inform striker Michael Owen will be available for the next two matches despite his recent surgery. Frank Lampard is also expected to be back in the upcoming two matches. Captain John Terry and Steven Gerrard are also thought to be available for the next week matches of qualifying round of EURO 2007. So, it seems that the injury problems will not have huge impact on England ahead of the important matches.

On the other hand, Russia has been impressive from the very beginning of qualifying round of EURO 2008. Russia lost only one match yet playing nine matches in Group E. No doubt, they will try heart and soul to win the match over England at their home soil. Some of their key players including Aleksandr Kerzhakov and Andrey Arshavin are in prime form. Moreover, Russia will have home advantage in the coming match. So, England will face a strong challenge from Russia. For both England and Russia, there is no alternative of win the match as both teams have just three matches at hand. So, in order to ensure their ticket of EURO 2008, both Russia and England will try their level best to win all of the three matches. Russia will try to take revenge of their last month defeat to England in the upcoming matches.

Despite new environment and some injury problems, I think, England is favorite in the match. The recent performance of England must be inspired their players to play well. England players are now in good form and their confidence level is also very high. However, I guess, Russian fans will also be enough to make their players inspired to play their best against England.

I know that many of you will be happy to watch the match in your television set. However, some of you will not be that much fortunate. You may have your personal or professional works or the match time may not be well-suited for you. However, you can enjoy the online live scores of the match if you really do not get to watch the match live in your television set. I have arranged some website links from where you can get the online live score and updates of the Russia vs England match. The website linsk are given below: