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FIFA World Cup 2018; Russia vs Egypt: Hosts dominate again, Russia beat Egypt 3-1

By FnF Desk | PUBLISHED: 20, Jun 2018, 12:10 pm IST | UPDATED: 22, Jun 2018, 10:52 am IST

FIFA World Cup 2018; Russia vs Egypt: Hosts dominate again, Russia beat Egypt 3-1 Saint Petersburg: World Cup host Russia are virtually in the round of 16 after registering their second successive win in the tournament. Russia outclassed Mohamed Salah's Egypt 3-1 in their second Group A match to consolidate their top position at the points table. All the four goals came in the second half, after the two sides played out a goalless first half.

90' - Four minutes added as stoppage time

90' - Amr Warda shot it wide of the Russian goal from the top of the box

89' - Corner for Russia. Egypt cleared it comfortably

88' - Salah miscued it wide of the Russian goal from top of the box. Final chance of the match for the Liverpool star?

86' - Substitution! Yuri Zhirkov is replaced by Fedor Kudryashov for Russia

84' - Yellow Card! Russian substitute Fedor Smolov is booked

82' - Substitution! Marwan Mohsen is replaced by Kahraba for Egypt

81' - Aleksandr Golovin got a good chance inside the Egypt box, he took too long to decide his mind - to shoot or not. Chance missed after a good move

79' - Substitution! Artem Dzyuba is replaced by Fedor Smolov for Russia. Both the goalscorers are off the field now for the hosts

74' - Substitution! First change for Russia. Denis Cheryshev is replaced by Daler Kuzyaev

73' - GOAL! Salah converted the penalty to pull one back for Egypt

Comeback-man Mohamed Salah scored as he hammered high into the net.

72' - PENALTY! Salah was brought down. VAR used and the decision stayed. It's a penalty for Egypt.

70' - Abdallah El Said's long ranger went well over the Russian goal

68' - Substitution! Another change for Egypt. Trezeguet is replaced by Ramadan Sobhi

64' - Substitution! Mohamed Elneny is replaced by Amr Warda for Egypt

62' - GOAL! Artem Dzyuba made it 3-0 for Russia

What a goal! Dzyuba chest down the ball at the edge of the area, turned and shot a thunderous strike into the net.

59' - GOAL! Denis Cheryshev doubled the lead for Russia

A brilliant team goal by the Russians. The move from the right flank was collected by Fernandes and nicely pull back in front of the Egypt goal. Cheryshev cleared himself from the markers and shot it low into the net from close range

57' - Yellow Card! Egypt's Trezeguet got the first booking of the night

56' - Another Salah's left-foot attempt, this time a deflection gave Egypt a corner. And the delivery found no takers and the ball went pass the Russian goal untouched.

55' - Back-to-back corners for Russia. But it was easily cleared by the Egyptians

53' - Another Russian attack from the left flank. It resulted in a corner for the hosts.

47' - GOAL! Own goal gave Russia the lead

UNLUCKY! The ball deflected from Ahmed Fathy's knee into the goal. Believe it or not, it's the fifth own goal of the tournament so far. In the last edition of the FIFA World Cup, a total of only five own goals were scored. And the record is six own goals during 1998 World Cup. Some stats.

Second half begins...Who will break the deadlock - Russia or Egypt?

HT - It's goalless at the half-time break in St Petersburg

45' - No stoppage time added in the first half

42' - First clear chance for Salah, he turned around to beat his marker and shot with his left-foot from top of the Russian box. The strike went just wide of goal though. Good effort.

41' - Artem Dzyuba head it over the Egypt crossbar.

37' - Denis Cheryshev's tantalising cross-in from the left flank found no takers inside the Egypt box

34' - Timely clearance from Yuri Zhirkov. Salah was lurking just behind him. Nothing substantial came off the resultant Egypt corner

31' - Russia have dominated the proceedings so far. Egypt losing the ball quite easily in the middle

28' - Another Russian attack from the left flank. Aleksandr Golovin's cross-in for Artem Dzyuba was cleared out by Egypt defender

26' - Egypt defender head it out of his own goalkeeper's hand. It could have cost them dearly, but somehow Mohamed El-Shenawy hold on with the ball during the second cross-in from Russia.

23' - Yuri Gazinskiy's cross-in from the left flank was little high for the jumping Artem Dzyuba in front of Egypt goal

19' - Denis Cheryshev effort from the distance went over the Egypt crossbar

16' - WIDE! Trezeguet tried to curl an effort into the right-hand corner of Akinfeev's net but it's just wide off the mark.

14' - Corner for Egypt, first of the match for them. Mohsen's header from the edge of the six-yard box was deflected. Another corner for Egypt.

8' - Free-kick for Russia. It ended with another corner for the Russians, which they took short but nothing came of it.

7' - Egypt's Elneny gave the ball away sloppily, and Golovin dragged his shot wide of Egypt goal from 20 yards.

5' - Corner for Russia. Short corner taken and the final header from veteran defender Sergei Ignashevich was straight to Egypt goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shenawy

2' - Early chance for Russia, Denis Cheryshev's through ball was just ahead of his team-mate Artem Dzyuba

Here we go... KICK-OFF TIME

*Time for National Anthems*

Starting line-ups

Russia: Igor Akinfeev; Mario Fernandes, Ilya Kutepov, Sergei Ignashevich, Yuri Zhirkov; Yuri Gazinskiy, Roman Zobnin; Aleksandr Samedov, Aleksandr Golovin, Denis Cheryshev; Artem Dzyuba.

Egypt: Mohamed El-Shenawy; Ahmed Fathy, Ali Gabr, Ahmed Hegazi, Mohamed Shafy; Mohamed Elneny, Tarek Hamed; Mohamed Salah, Abdallah El Said, Trezeguet; Marwan Mohsen.

Egypt's talismanic striker Mohamed Salah was named in their starting line-up for their second World Cup Group A match against Russia in St Petersburg on Tuesday. Salah missed Egypt's 0-1 defeat by Uruguay in their first game and replaces Amr Warda in the only change made by coach Hector Cuper.

Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov made two changes to the team that thrashed Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the opening game of the tournament, with winger Denis Cheryshev, who scored twice in that match, replacing injured midfielder Alan Dzagoev. Forward Artem Dzyuba, who scored a minute after coming on from the bench in the second half, is the other change and starts in place of striker Fyodor Smolov.
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