An own goal by Egypt, Ahmed Fathy gave the host country, Russia to dominate the game that destabilized the Egyptians at the 47th minutes. It was a bad start for the Egyptians.
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Zobnin fires a poor shot at goal but it took a huge deflection of Fathy, putting it into the bottom right-hand corner.
Cheryshev found the back of the net of Egypt 59th minutes to give Russia two goals lead.
Fernandes brilliantly makes room on the right to cut a ball back into the middle, where Cheryshev slots home his third goal in two games.
Russia have turned on the style and Dzyuba gets his second goal of the tournament!
The striker excellently takes a ball from Kutepov down inside the area, cutting past Gabr and giving El-Shenawy no chance with his finish.
Egypt cut the deficit! Salah makes no mistake with his finish, firing past Akinfeev from the spot. The Liverpool star gets his World Cup goal!
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Line-ups
Russia XI: Yuri Zhirkov, Igor Akinfeev, Sergei Ignashevich, Aleksandr Samedov, Artem Dzyuba, Mario Fernandes, Yuri Gazinskiy, Denis Cheryshev, Ilya Kutepov, Roman Zobnin, Aleksandr Golovin
Subs: Fedor Kudryashov, Vladimir Granat, Fedor Smolov, Vladimir Gabulov, Igor Smolnikov, Aleksandr Erokhin, Andrey Semenov, Andrey Lunev, Daler Kuzyaev, Aleksey Miranchuk, Anton Miranchuk
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Egypt XI: Ahmed Fathy, Abdallah El Said, Mohamed Shafy, Mohamed El-Shenawy, Tarek Hamed, Ahmed Hegazi, Ali Gabr, Mohamed Salah, Marwan Mohsen, Mohamed Elneny, Trézéguet
Subs: Sherif Ekramy, Essam El Hadary, Ahmed El Mohamady, Shikabala, Sam Morsy, Ayman Ashraf, Saad Samir, Omar Gaber, Kahraba, Mahmoud Hamdi El Wensh, Ramadan Sobhi, Amr Warda
Related： EgyptRussiaAhmed FathyA. DzyubaSalahD. Cheryshev
RESULTS FOR TODAY
EGYPT 2 POLAND 1
RUSSIA 3 EGYPT 1
JAPAN 2 COLUMBIA 1
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