Russia gave a dazzling display against Sweden in Innsbruck Wednesday night, winning 2-0 to secure a place in the last eight of the European soccer championships.
Russia gave their best performance of the championship with Roman Pavlyuchenko and Andrei Arshavin, who was playing for the first time in the tournament after a two-game suspension, both scoring to set up a quarterfinal match with the Netherlands in Basel on June 21.
Dutch coach Guus Hiddink said after the match that he was proud of the Russi
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an team: "I am proud of them. If you saw the performance tonight and how they tried to get the first goal as soon as possible, it was incredible. The only criticism... is that we didn't score enough."
Hiddink said he was looking forward to Saturday's match against the Netherlands and said it would be "a special one because I know the players and their coach."
