Moscow, Russia (My Sportsbook) - An injury-riddled Russian squad has only 18 healthy players available for Saturday's World Cup qualifying match against Luxembourg.

First-choice goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov, star striker Alexander Kerzhakov and midfielder Dmitri Khoklov were all unable to travel with the team for the game. The trio's status for Wednesday's match against Portugal is currently unknown.

Russia is in need of a positive result after a disappointing performance in Euro 2004 this past summer and a lackluster 1-1 draw in a qualifying match last month against Slovenia.

The complete Russian squad is:

GOALKEEPERS:

Sergei Ovchinnikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Viacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St. Petersburg)

DEFENDERS:

Vadim Evseev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Alexei Bugaev (Torpedo Moscow)

Dmitri Sennikov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Denis Kolodin (Krylia Sovetov)

Sergei Ignashevitch (CSKA Moscow)

Alexander Aniukov (Krylia Socetov)

MIDFIELDERS:

Alexei Smertin (Chelsea)

Eugeni Aldonin (CSKA Moscow)

Rolan Gusev (CSKA Moscow)

Marat Izmailov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Lubomir Kantonistov (Kuban Krasnodar)

Dmitri Alenichev (Spartak Moscow)

Andrei Kariaka (Krylia Sovetov)

Dmitri Khokhlov (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Denis Boyarintsev (Rubin Kazan)

FORWARDS:

Dmitri Sychev (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St. Petersburg)

Andrei Arshavin (Zenit St. Petersburg)

Dmitri Bulykin (Dinamo Moscow)

Dmitri Kirichenko (CSKA Moscow)