Host Russia Stun World Cup 2018 Favourites Spain In Round Of 16 Match And Breaks Spanish Hearts
Host Russia Stun World Cup Favourites Spain In Round Of 16 And Breaks Spanish Hearts - World Cup 2018
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| Host Russia Stun World Cup Favourites Spain In Round Of 16 Match And Breaks Spanish Hearts (PC:Instagram) |
As being the group B winner Spain take on host Russia who are runners up from group A in Round of 16 match in Moscow on 1st july 2018. Spain side were looking for the easy win against Russia but the host were undone in this running world cup. They had more of the crowd support as the host. Spain were having some trouble due to huge crowd supporting Russia.
Spain were looking for 2nd world cup title in 8 years as they were winner of the competition in 2010 whereas Russia made it through to the knockout round for the first time in the history of the world cup. With huge mass of Crowd Russia had advantage over Spain whereas Spain were under Pressure from the starting of the game. However Spain took the lead at the early stage of the game through Sergio Ramos who forced Russian defender to score an own goal. With 1-0 lead Spain were a bit uncomfortable as Russia were pressing forward time and again, any mistake from spain defence could lead to Russian goal. Russia with the corner kick and handball by Gerard Pique, its a penalty for Russia. Dyuba Scores for the Russian . Game on 1-1 and its half time.
No team was able to score any goal in remaining time. Game went to extra time. Spain kept pressing but couldn't find a way past russian defence. Russia holded the game Game ended 1-1 after 120th minutes as well. Game went to penalty shootout. Host Russia were on the front foot as the russian keeper kept Koke away from the goal were David De gea wasn' able to guess the right way also. 5th and last Penalty for spain had to be scored otherwise Russia win. Score was 4-3 from 4 shots from each. Iago Aspas came to take last shot leaving Isco behind. Shoots and saved again, Russia won 4-3 on penalty and went through the Quarter final of the competition whereas Spain are out of the tournament.
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