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Russia vs Saudi Arabia, Worldcup 2018 GROUP STAGE

FIFA World Cup · 2018
Russia
5 – 0
Full Time
Saudi Arabia
Thu 14 Jun 2018 · 15:00 UTC HT 45' · FT 45'
Aleksandr Golovin 88' Y
Y 90' Taiseer Al Jassim

Overview

Match Preview

Russia vs Saudi Arabia — Worldcup .

Match Details

  • Referee Hernan Maidana
  • Referee Juan Pablo Belatti
  • Referee Mauro Vigliano
  • Referee Nestor Pitana
  • Referee Emerson Augusto De Carvalho
  • Referee Daniele Orsato
  • Referee Massimiliano Irrati
  • Referee Sandro Ricci
  • Referee Carlos Astroza

Standings

# Team P Pts
1 Mexico 3 9
2 South Africa 3 4
3 South Korea 3 3
4 Czechia 3 1
5 Switzerland 3 7
6 Canada 3 4
7 Bosnia-Herzegovina 3 4
8 Qatar 3 1
9 Brazil 3 7
10 Morocco 3 7
11 Scotland 3 3
12 Haiti 3 0
13 United States 3 6
14 Australia 3 4
15 Paraguay 3 4
16 Turkey 3 3
17 Germany 3 6
18 Ivory Coast 3 6
19 Ecuador 3 4
20 Curacao 3 1
21 Netherlands 3 7
22 Japan 3 5
23 Sweden 3 4
24 Tunisia 3 0
25 Belgium 3 5
26 Egypt 3 5
27 Iran 3 3
28 New Zealand 3 1
29 Spain 3 7
30 Cape Verde Islands 3 3
31 Uruguay 3 2
32 Saudi Arabia 3 2
33 France 3 9
34 Norway 3 6
35 Senegal 3 3
36 Iraq 3 0
37 Argentina 3 9
38 Austria 3 4
39 Algeria 3 4
40 Jordan 3 0
41 Colombia 3 7
42 Portugal 3 5
43 Congo DR 3 4
44 Uzbekistan 3 0
45 England 3 7
46 Croatia 3 6
47 Ghana 3 4
48 Panama 3 0

Head-to-Head

1
Russia 1 games · Avg 5.0 goals Saudi Arabia
Last 5 meetings
2018-06-14 Russia 5–0 Saudi Arabia

Recent Form

Russia
DateOpponentH/A ScoreResult
14 Jun Saudi Arabia H 5–0 W
05 May Blyth Town FC H 1–1 D
28 Apr Germany A 2–1 W
21 Apr Italy H 1–1 D
14 Apr Hungary A 1–1 D
07 Apr Turkey A 0–0 D
Saudi Arabia
DateOpponentH/A ScoreResult
14 Jun Russia A 0–5 L
19 Aug MSV Duisburg H 0–2 L

Key Stats

0% Both Teams to Score
H2H (1 games)
100% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history
33% Clean Sheets
Saudi Arabia this season

Goal Timing (This Season)

Saudi Arabia
0-15
–/1
16-30
–/2
31-45
1/–
46-60
–/–
61-75
–/–
76+
–/1
■ Scored ■ Conceded

Events

Match Events

  • 0' Welcome to that hosts another battle between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
  • 5' Russia is showing some good football. However, Russia are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
  • 10' It looks surprising Saudi Arabia does not make any changes. Salem Al Dawsari has some obvious troubles when approaching to the goal.
  • 12' Yury Gazinskiy puts Russia on the lead.
  • 17' It looks like no one’s ball. Russia is used to counterattacking playing. None of the sides are ready to take the lead.
  • 22' Not even hints on scoring a goal over the last 22 minutes.
  • 24' Russia manager makes another effort to make the tables turned. Denis Cheryshev is hanging Alan Dzagoev on the field on 24 minute.
  • 29' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Fahad Al Muwallad made 9 appearances and scored 0 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
  • 34' While players are taking a pause, let’s have a look at their stats. The teams met 0 times this season with winning -% of all matches.
  • 39' looks like a favorite considering 0 games won in last 0 matches with its main striker scoring goals.
  • 43' GOAL! Denis Cheryshev scores on 43. Assisted by Roman Zobnin
  • 48' Both teams are passing the ball around with high level of urgency. Russia needs to do something about it to get closer to the goal.
  • 53' Although teams showed high tempo form the start, they seem to slow down a bit. Both sides really need to catch a fire. Otherwise, we have another goalless match.
  • 58' The referee is likely to let players tackle, as he already missed some meaty challenges during opening seconds. He is still to establish what should not be done by the players and what is acceptable on the pitch. It’s going to be a tough game for Aleksandr Samedov suffering a number of foals already.
  • 63' Russia seems to be on a short break. The game is mainly concentrated in the center. It’s high time they got back to action. Otherwise, it looks like a goalless game.
  • 64' It is a substitution in Russia team. Aleksandr Samedov is replaced by Daler Kuzyaev on 64 minute.
  • 69' Saudi Arabia started playing very sharply right from the kick off. However, it slowed down the tempo rapidly by 69.
  • 70' Russia manager makes another effort to make the tables turned. Artem Dzyuba is hanging Fedor Smolov on the field on 70 minute.
  • 71' Goal! Artem Dzyuba scores his 114 goal in 105 matches.
  • 74' The whistle greets Yahia Al Shehri as he departs to be replaced by Hattan Babhri.
  • 79' It’s high time Pizzi made some changes to put the his team’s game back to action.
  • 84' Muhannad Asiri has so much to prove this time. He replaces Mohammed Al Sahlawi on 84 minute.
  • 88' Russia player sees a Yellow card in front of him.
  • 90' Denis Cheryshev with the second goal in the match!
  • 90' It’s gonna be a Yellow card for Taiseer Al Jassim.
  • Time to leave. No sensation happened. Another win for Russia players.

Lineups

Russia Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

Coach Stanislav Cherchesov

Saudi Arabia Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

Coach Pizzi

Predictions

Prediction accuracy
4 / 4
2.86 Russia xG
Expected Goals
Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo
0.62 Saudi Arabia xG
I would bet for: Russia to win 75% + Over 2.5 goals 66%

Match Result

✓ Correct
Russia75% Draw16% Saudi Arabia9%
Actual: Russia win

Both Teams to Score

✓ Correct
Yes44% 0% No56%
Avg goals/match: 3.48
Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✓ O/U 2.5
Line Over Under
± 0.5 96%
4%
± 1.5 85%
15%
± 2.5 66%
34%
± 3.5 45%
55%
± 4.5 27%
73%

Double Chance

Russia or Draw
91%
Draw or Saudi Arabia
25%
Russia or Saudi Arabia
84%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct
Russia61% Draw33% Saudi Arabia6%
Actual: Russia win at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12
2 – 0
12.7%
3 – 0
11.7%
1 – 0
8.9%
4 – 0
8.3%
2 – 1
7.6%
3 – 1
7.2%
1 – 1
6%
4 – 1
5.2%
5 – 0
Actual
0 – 0
4.2%
5 – 1
3.1%
6 – 0
2.4%

Asian Handicap — Russia

Handicap Russia covers Push Saudi Arabia covers
-2.5 41% — 59%
-2 41% 22% 37%
-1.5 63% — 37%
-1 63% 19% 18%
-0.5 82% — 18%
+0.5 95% — 5%
+1 95% 4% 1%
+1.5 99% — 1%
+2 99% 1% 0%
+2.5 100% — 0%

Clean Sheet

Russia keeps clean sheet
54% ✓
Saudi Arabia keeps clean sheet
7% ✓

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.