Russia vs S/Arabia - Host Russia Whip Saudi Arabia 5-0 In Opening Match
It’s all over – Russia have thrashed a fairly abject Saudi Arabia side by five goals in the opening game of Russia 2018. In a match low on quality, most of the goals were a bit special. It’s a great start for the hosts, whose supporters were fearing the worst going into this game. Russia get three points on the board and lead group A.
Is a fantastic goal from Aleksandr Golovin! The Russian midfielder scores with a sublime free-kick, curling the ball around the Saudi wall and wide of the post, only for it to curl back inside and beyond the reach of Al-Mayouf from about 25 yards. That is a wonderful strike!
Cheryshev scores his second ever international goal and they’ve both come in the same game. His first was sublime, showing great close control. His second was also a beauty, sending the ball high past Al-Mayouf with the outside of his left boot from the left side of the penalty area. A tip of the hat also to Artem Dzyuba, who teed him up.
Denis Cheryshev scores the goal of the night, floating the ball into the top corner with an insoucient swish of his left boot from the edge of the Saudi penalty area.
Aleksandr Golovin gets the first yellow card of the game and it’s for a fairly innocuous foul on Al-Faraj. Two bookings amounts to a suspension in this tournament and disciplinary slates are wiped clean ahead of the quarter-finals.
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