"Russian football is not moving forward. We would be defeated again in the European Cup," - ex-Russian national footballer

Former Russian national team player Aleksandr Mostovoi assessed the level of his country's football.

"We now have only Golovin playing at a decent European level for the whole country. In the past you could name several names, but with each generation there are fewer and fewer good players.

Russian football is not moving forward. If our clubs were playing in European cups now, we would be defeated there again. Just like in the last few years. We just don't play there now, so nobody says that the level has dropped," RB Sport quoted Mostovoy as saying.