Russia
Line-up
- 1I. Akinfeev
- 4S. Ignashevich
- 3I. Kutepov
- 2Mário Fernandes
- 11R. Zobnin
- 8Yury Gazinskiy
- 17A. Golovin
- 19A. Samedov
- 13F. Kudryashov
- 7Kuzyaev, Daler
- 10F. Smolov
- 18Y. Zhirkov
- 6D. Cheryshev
- 22A. Dzyuba
Subs
- 20V. Gabulov
- 12A. Lunev
- 14V. Granat
- 5Andrey Semenov
- 23I. Smolnikov
- 21A. Erokhin
- 15Aleksey Miranchuk
- 16A. Miranchuk
Egypt
Line-up
- 23El Shenawy, Mohamed
- 13Abdelshafy, Mohamed
- 6Ahmed Hegazy
- 2Ali Gabr
- 7Ahmed Fathy
- 8Hamed, Tarek
- 19Abdalla El Said
- 10Mohamed Salah
- 14Ramadan Sobhi
- 22Amr Warda
- 11Kahraba Mahmoud
- 17Mohamed Elneny
- 21Trezeguet
- 9Mohsen, Marwan
Subs
- 16Sherif Ekramy
- 1Essam El Hadary
- 12Ashraf, Ayman
- 3Ahmed El Mohamady
- 4Gaber, Omar
- 15Hamdi, Mahmoud
- 20Saad Samir
- 18Shikabala
- 5Sam Morsy
Nope, after yesterday's results I don't want to believe in top teams anymore. Let's rely on underdogs or teams which are not favorites. Apparently, this WC has a lot of surprises for us, at least we can see that trend at that moment. So Russia have won their first game on WC, smashed Saudi Arabia 5:0. I'm not going to say that they played magically, but in terms of organization and performance of some players they were good enough. Egypt have lost to Uruguay at the end of the match, but looked very solid plus Mo Salah will feature in this match. But how good is he right now, that's a question to think about. I think that this will be an under 2.5 game and i'll risk and bet on a win of Russia. Your thoughts?