MOSCOW: Hosts Russia beat Spain 4-Three on penalties on Sunday to advance to the World Cup quarter-finals the place they'll face either Denmark or Croatia.
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Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev saved Koke's and Iago Aspas' spot kicks of their first ever penalty shootout to ship the hosts via following a 1-1 draw over 120 mins.
Spain, who have never crushed a host at World Cups or Euros, went forward after 12 mins when 38-year-old Sergei Ignashevich bundled into Spain captain Sergio Ramos at the some distance put up, knocking a free kick in with his heel for the 10th own objective of the event.
The 2010 world champions controlled the sport with their slick passing but did little extra, failing to create some other scoring probability in the first half.
Russia looked equally toothless up entrance, with Aleksandr Golovin's curled effort their most effective noteworthy opportunity till Gerard Pique's handball gave them a chance to level with a penalty in the 42nd minute.
Forward Artem Dzyuba buried it for his third objective of the event, sending Spain keeper David de Gea the wrong option to equalise and awaken the subdued 78,000 crowd in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
The game lacked tempo and pace even after the ruin with each groups wary not concede too much space and the Russians enjoying without an out-and-out striker after the substitution of Dzyuba.
Despite 75 p.c possession, Spain's famed tiki-taka passing game hardly ever carried them into the field they usually needed to wait till the 85th minute to check Akinfeev with a low pressure from change Andres Iniesta.
Having long run out of steam and with a number of gamers cramping, Russia were lowered to desperately defending in overtime as Spain, who played more than 4 instances the choice of passes their fighters did, nonetheless struggled to slice open the Russian defence.
Akinfeev got here to the rescue once more to disclaim Rodrigo after his high-quality sprint in the second one half of overtime ahead of becoming a national hero through saving the 2 spot kicks to ship the hosts past the former world champions.
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Russia keeper Igor Akinfeev saved Koke's and Iago Aspas' spot kicks of their first ever penalty shootout to ship the hosts via following a 1-1 draw over 120 mins.
Spain, who have never crushed a host at World Cups or Euros, went forward after 12 mins when 38-year-old Sergei Ignashevich bundled into Spain captain Sergio Ramos at the some distance put up, knocking a free kick in with his heel for the 10th own objective of the event.
The 2010 world champions controlled the sport with their slick passing but did little extra, failing to create some other scoring probability in the first half.
Russia looked equally toothless up entrance, with Aleksandr Golovin's curled effort their most effective noteworthy opportunity till Gerard Pique's handball gave them a chance to level with a penalty in the 42nd minute.
Forward Artem Dzyuba buried it for his third objective of the event, sending Spain keeper David de Gea the wrong option to equalise and awaken the subdued 78,000 crowd in Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
The game lacked tempo and pace even after the ruin with each groups wary not concede too much space and the Russians enjoying without an out-and-out striker after the substitution of Dzyuba.
Despite 75 p.c possession, Spain's famed tiki-taka passing game hardly ever carried them into the field they usually needed to wait till the 85th minute to check Akinfeev with a low pressure from change Andres Iniesta.
Having long run out of steam and with a number of gamers cramping, Russia were lowered to desperately defending in overtime as Spain, who played more than 4 instances the choice of passes their fighters did, nonetheless struggled to slice open the Russian defence.
Akinfeev got here to the rescue once more to disclaim Rodrigo after his high-quality sprint in the second one half of overtime ahead of becoming a national hero through saving the 2 spot kicks to ship the hosts past the former world champions.
Russia beat Spain 4-3 on penalties to reach quarter-finals
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July 02, 2018
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