on tuesday and croatia will face england in moscow on wednesday and the host country russia have now but i ll go out of the competition but they enjoyed a remarkable drive all the way to the quarterfinals read they lost in a nail biter on saturday russia were ranked seventeenth when the world cup kicked off we spoke earlier with ali moody in moscow our correspondent about the surprise team of the tournament and their fans. hope the most in the end russian fans have no hope at the start of this autumn and they were built up and then of course cruelly dar so it s a difficult one for them but that hasn t stopped them from recognizing what an unlikely achievement this is for the russian teen russian fans turned out in the tens of thousands to welcome the team back to moscow here after their loss to croatia in sochi. i think there s a real recognition despite the disappointment that russia has massively over