Advocaat announces squad for Iran friendly

The list comprises 20 players with no new names in it.

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA) and Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit)

Defenders: Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit), Aleksey Berezutsky, Vasily Berezutsky, Sergey Ignashevich (all from CSKA), Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Midfielders: Vladimir Bystrov, Igor Denisov, Konstantin Zyryanov, Roman Shirokov (all from Zenit), Diniar Bilyaletdinov (Everton, England), Pavel Mamaev, Alan Dzagoev (both from CSKA), Dmitry Torbinsky (Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Semshov (Dynamo Moscow)

Forwards: Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal, England), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (Zenit), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Tottenham, England), Pavel Pogrebnyak (Stuttgart, Germany).

Among the team’s leaders only Yury Zhirkov will be absent. The Chelsea midfielder is now recovering from injury.