Spain — Russia on World Cup 2018. Match Highlights.

Spanish national team was a stern favorite of the match, and everyone agreed on the opinion that the Spain will get the ticket to the quarterfinals. Experience, class of performers, teamwork, the psychology of the winners and the status of the favorite, all spoke of the advantage of the team of guests. However, Russian players in the pre-match interviews persevered that they could perform a miracle.

No time to start the first half, as Igor Akinfeev already had to take the ball out of the net of his goal — on the 12th minute, after a free kick, the ball treacherously jumped from Sergei Ignashevich and flew straight into the net.

1:0

At the 36th minute Dzyuba won the fight with Ramos, made a pass to Golovin, who gave to Zobnin and got the ball back, struck the goal. The first dangerous moment for De Gea.

The 41st minute. After filing a corner at the Spanish goal, the ball hit the arm of Gerard Pique. The referee of the meeting Björn Koipers undoubtedly pointed to the mark, and Artem Dzuba, who defeated De Gea without any problems, took the 11-meter strike.

1:1

The scoreboard did not change anymore, and in the locker rooms teams left with a draw.

From the very beginning of the second half and up to the end of extra time the game was held according to one scenario: the Spaniards controlled the ball, tried to open a massive Russian defense, which literally played for retreat. Nevertheless, you can not blame Stanislav Cherchesov’s team for the chosen strategy, because in a duel against technical Spaniards this was almost the only chance to win.

As a result, the wards of Stanislav Cherchesov throughout the whole match showed patience, fighting off Spanish attacks, for which they were rewarded in a series of post-match penalties, which ended with a score of 3:4 in their favor. The main hero of this series was Igor Akinfeev, who beat off 11-meter performed by Koke and Iago Aspas. For two saves from penalty kicks CSKA goalkeeper was awarded with the title of the player of the match.

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