Russia, the host, is a selection that I do not like at all for the resources it has. It has some players of certain entity like Dzagoev, Golovin, Smolov, Akinfeev, Cheryshev, Erokhin or Miranchuk but it is a team that has shown almost nothing of level. In the Confederations we saw it with a very low level and was eliminated in groups surpassed by Portugal and Mexico, getting to win New Zealand.
Selection trained by Juan Antonio Pizzi who returns to the World Cup since his last participation in 2006. I saw that he played a great game against Germany in the last friendly and hurt the reigning world champion with several players that I liked and I informed myself a little more of the selection. In that game he could see how he took advantage of the spaces with fast players like Al Muwallad and the players of the right wing that surprised me a lot like Al Shehri and Al Shahrani. Highlight his star, striker Al Sahlawi who along with Lewandowski and Ahmed Khalil has been the top scorer of the qualifiers with 16 goals so I think he would seek it continuously mediating centers.
As for corners, there are 3 that we need to take out. In the classification phase has exceeded most of the time, but there are higher than most so it is not so significant. Taking the last matches as a reference, they had 2 against Germany, 3 against Peru, 1 against Italy, 6 against Belgium or 3 against Ukraine; data not bad for our interests.