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Russia world cup: Russia vs Saudi Arabia 5-0

At 23:00 on June 14, Beijing time (18:00 local time of Russia), the opening match of the 21st World Cup was held at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Group a host Russia won 5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia, making a good start and winning 7 consecutive games. Follow Xiaobian to get to know it.

Gazinsky's header opened the record, and zagoev left because of injury. Cherishev, who replaced him, expanded the score and became the first substitute in the World Cup history to score in the opening match. In the second half, Kuba, the high center, came out for 89 seconds and smashed his head. In the stoppage period, cherishev and Galois joined the next two cities, and Galois had two assists in the game.

The two teams with the lowest international ranking meet on a narrow road in the opening battle. Russia, three places lower than Saudi Arabia, has been unbeaten in seven consecutive games since October last year, and if it fails to beat Saudi Arabia in this battle, it will be the longest unbeaten match in the team's history. In the history of the world cup, the host never lost in the first match (15-6 draw), and only South Africa came out of the group match in 2010. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia ranked third in the group in three times of participating in the world cup. In the last five World Cups, it was unbeaten (2-3 loss), and only two wins were against African teams (6-1 win over Cameroon in 1994; 2-0 win over Tunisia in 2002). Due to too many injuries in the back defence, Igor natchevic, who had previously left the national team, came back and started, breaking Yassin's record (36 years old, 279 days) and becoming the oldest Russian player to appear in the world cup (38 years old, 335 days). Main striker Kokorin due to knee injury, Smolov as a single arrow.

Saudi Arabia lost to Italy, Peru and Germany in the warm-up game. In the last three world cups, Saudi Arabia did not reach the bottom of the group (2-7), with only two goals. The last win dates back to 1994's 1-0 win over Belgium. Muwarad is on the bench ahead of sahravi, who tied for the best striker in the qualifying with 16 goals. The two teams had only one encounter before and won 4-2 at home in October 1993.

Gazinsky's goal overlooks Casillas entering the stadium with the Hercules cup. After the brief opening ceremony, Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA president ivantino delivered speeches successively. After the opening, sahravi and semedov were blocked from getting shot in the forbidden area. Russia takes the lead in the 12th minute! Zobrin's right rib is jammed into the forbidden area, zagoev is shoved 12 meters in front of the door and destroyed by Omar hosavi to get out of the baseline, zobrin's left corner is ejected, Russia's ball continues to attack, golowin's left cross points, gazinsky in front of the door 6 meters into the lower left corner, 1-0. He became the sixth host player to score the first goal of a single world cup, after chabalala of South Africa in 2010. The first goal of this world cup is to score, the last time it goes back to the goal of Rahm in 2006.

Russia's World Cup debut

Gazinski celebrates the goal as zagoev passes straight to the right of the penalty area, and Mario Fernandez crosses it. Smorov pushes and hits Omar hosavi 10 meters in front of the door, and muaev saves the ball. But Mario Middleton Fernandez is offside. Saudi Arabia hit back, shahrani left cross, kujepov and sahravi scramble for the landing point out of the bottom line.

Russia's injury happened unfortunately. Zagoev pulled his left thigh muscle when he came back for defence, and cherishev came on as a substitute. Saudi Arabia intercepted the other side's header to break through, Jassim knocked horizontally, and dosari played high 24 meters in front of the door. In a free kick from Faraj's right side, shahrani headed 11 meters ahead of the goal. Smorov counterattacks and passes straight, and Golovin breaks into the right side of the penalty area, falls to the ground in the defense of Osama hosavi. Argentine referee Pitana signals that the match will continue.

Russia's 43rd minute to expand the score! Golovin high speed into the right side of the penalty area back to do, zobrin in the middle of the ball, cherishev penalty area left foot buckled two defenders, in front of the door 6 meters left foot push shot hanging near the corner into the net, 2-0. It was his first goal for the national team and the first substitute goal in the history of the opening World Cup. He also became the fifth substitute to score in the first half of the world cup after dugary in 1998, Cambiasso and Materazzi in 2006 and Samaris in 2014. It took Russia only 43 minutes to catch up with the previous World Cup goals (2 goals).

In the first half of the year, Russia scored twice, while Saudi Arabia did not. In the second half, semedov shot from the outside of the box out of the upper left corner. Saudi Arabia missed the opportunity in the 56th minute. Blake made a low pass on the right side. Jassim scored in front of him and sahravi didn't touch the ball. Jassim's free kick on the left was passed, and Faraj's header was deflected 11 meters away from the goal.

In the first 60 minutes, Saudi Arabia's possession rate reached 62.4%, which was higher than that of any world cup. Both teams have made adjustments, with striker muwarad replacing otev and kujayev replacing semedov. Cherishev made a breakthrough pass, then inserted the ball in front of him and got it by muayuf. Golowin's passing, zobrin's strafing into the right side of the penalty area caused muaiuf to leave, but no teammate made up the shot.

In the 71st minute, Mario and middot Fernandez threw a right-hand throw into the foul ball. In the arc pass of Golovin, Zuba drove his head hammer into the lower right corner 6 meters in front of the door, 3-0. He scored in 89 seconds, the fastest substitute goal in the world cup after Poland's jevlakov scored 64 seconds against the United States in 2002. He is also the second player to score in the birthplace (Moscow) of this century's World Cup after Rahm scored in Munich in 2006. Russia scored three goals in a single World Cup since its 6-1 win over Cameroon in 1994. Saudi Arabia has been the team with the most goals (14 goals) scored by opponents in the same period of the World Cup since its debut in 1994.

Bachbury replaced Sheikh. The shot from the outside of dosari was slightly off the right post. Zolbrin's header was deflected from the right corner of the free kick from golowin's right side. Asili replaced sahravi. In the first minute of mending time, chouba's left rib header returned, cherishev broke into the forbidden area 14 meters away from the gate and curled the ball on the back of his left foot into the far corner, 4-0! In the fourth minute of mending time, Golovin slightly relied on the right side to enter the near corner of the free kick from the gate, 5-0! He became the first player in the history of the World Cup who had one goal and two assists in the opening match. Russia won the second largest victory of the host country in the history of the world cup after Italy's 7-1 win over the United States in 1934.

Russia (4-2-3-1): 1-aginfiev / 2-mario & middot; Fernandez, 3-kudziev, 4-ignashevic, 18 Zhirkov / 8-gazinsky, 11 zobrin / 19 semedov (64 \'7-kujayev), 9-zagoev (24 \'6-chereshev), 17 Golovin / 10 smorov (70 \ '22-juba)

Saudi Arabia (4-5-1): 1-muaeuf / 6-blake, 3-osama-hosavi, 5-omar-hosavi, 13-shahrani / 8-sheikh (74 \'9-bakhabri), 14-otaev (64 \'19-muwarad), 7-faraj, 17-jasim, 18-dosari / 10-sahravi (85 \'20-sicily)