Fabio Capello has refused to speak about England exit ahead of first Russia game

Fabio Capello declined to comment on his England exit ahead of his first competitive game as Russia boss, saying only that his departure was to do with 'respect'.

"They have players who play in the Premier League, in England and in Scotland," he said. "I know the players, it is my job and I need to know. But I do not speak about individual players. "I prefer to speak about the team, I don't single them out. "In my mind I always try to look forward, to achieve. I hope the next result will be really, really good. "Our team is a good team, in the Euros we played some games really well and I want to see the same spirit and style. "If we play at that level, the result will be okay."

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Capello made the bold decision to leave out Andrei Arshavin, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Pavel Pogrebnyak from his 24-man squad and has already lost one of only three strikers - Artem Dzyuba - to injury. Nevertheless, he does not plan to add cover up front. He added: "I picked 24 players and I have two forwards... after the game we will decide if someone has an injury and maybe I will select new players."