Russia aim to entertain against Slovenia

MARIBOR, Slovenia: Russia will stick to their crowd-pleasing style of attacking play when they take a narrow lead over Slovenia into Wednesday's World Cup playoff return leg, coach Guus Hiddink said.

The Dutchman, who has taken three teams to soccer's most prestigious tournament with his entertaining brand of football, said Russia would not suddenly become defensive just because Slovenia snatched an away goal in Saturday's 2-1 first leg.

"Since I've been here we always tried to play aggressive, attacking football that most fans love to watch," Hiddink said. "It would be against Russian nature to take a cautious, defensive approach. It doesn't mean that we would totally neglect our defense and just attack, attack, attack.