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Russia's national team managed to win 3-1 over the Egyptian national team in the 2018 World Cup Group A preliminary match at the St Petersburg Stadium on Tuesday (19/06/2018) or Wednesday morning GMT.
The Russian goal was scored through Ahmed Fathi's own goal in the 47th minute, Denis Cheryshev (59 '), and Artem Dzyuba (62'). While the Egyptian goal was scored by Mohamed Salah through a penalty execution (73 ').
Russia will automatically qualify if Saudi Arabia fail to win over Uruguay in Wednesday's game (20/06/2018). Only, with a margin of 7 goals, mathematically step Russia escape will not be unstoppable.
Although small, Egypt can still hope. They expect Saudi Arabia to win over Uruguay to open a chance the three teams have two points in the final standings of Group A.
The first round of the game was occupied by Egypt, but only Russia even get one right kick into the goal.
Russia had a chance in the 5th minute. The mistakes that the Egyptian defender made were not able to put to good use by Aleksndr Golovin.
In the 14th minute, turn Egypt to get a chance through a corner kick. However, many times the Russian defense managed to thwart the efforts of Salah et al score.
Trezeguet had threatened the Russian goal through a kick from outside the penalty box in the 15th minute. Only, the ball is still too wide of the goalkeeper guarded by Igor Akinfeev.
Russia as the host of this World Cup did not want to lose. In the 17th minute, Denis Cheryshev did a direct kick but the ball was still wide over Mohamed El Shenawi's goal.
Mohamed Salah got a golden opportunity in the 41st minute. Only, no goals are created within the first 45 minutes.
Two minutes after the second-half kick-off, Egyptian defender Ahmed Fathi made a mistake by changing the direction of the Russian player's kick so Mohamed El Shenawi failed to catch the wild ball. Score 1-0.
Denis Cheryshev managed to increase the advantage of Russia in the 59th minute through a cross made by Mario Fernandes.
Not enough with two goals, Russia again added advantage through individual action Artem Dzyuba (62 '). Score to 3-0 for Russia's lead.
Ten minutes later, Egypt managed to overcome the backwardness through the execution of Mohamed Salah's penalty. The score changed to 3-1 with Russia's advantage.
Composition of players match between Russia against Egypt:
Russia: 1-Igor Akinfeev; 2-Mario Fernandes, 3-Ilya Kutepov, 4-Sergei Ignashevich, 18-Yuri Zhirkov, 11- Roman Zobnin, 8-Yuri Gazinskiy, 7-Daler Kuzyaev, 17-Aleksandr Golovin, 6-Denis Cheryshev, 10-Fedor Smolov
Coach: Stanislav Cherchesov
Egypt: 23-Mohamed El Shenawi; 13-Mohamed Abdel-Shafy, 2-Ali Gabr, 6-Ahmed Hegazy, 7-Ahmed Fathi; 21-Trezeguet, 17-Mohamed Elneny, 8-Tarek Hamed, 19-Abdalla El Said; 9-Marwan Mohsen, 10 -Mohamed Salah
Coach: Hector Cuper
Referee: Enrique Caceres (Paraguay)
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