Russia coach Dick Advocaat said he considered Spain, Netherlands and Germany to be the clear favourites, adding he did not count Russia to be among them.
"One friendly victory even if it was a thrashing of Italy (3-0 last Friday) doesn't make us the Euro favourites," the Dutchman told a press conference.
"We should remain realists, it was just a warm-up game.
"It's good we scored three goals against Italy to boost our team's self-confidence but we still need to improve our defence to avoid serious problems in the group matches with the Czechs, Poland and Greece."
Advocaat added that despite the optimistic forecasts some of his players still had injury concerns and will be working on their individual programmes in the upcoming days.
Source: AFP
