To your attention the review of the day of World Cup 2018 for June 25.
After two wonderful matches, the hosts of the tournament, who played for almost an hour in the minority against the Uruguayan team, could not achieve success with a rival caliber higher. In the match, in which the winner of group A was to be determined, Uruguayans took the upper hand thanks to the goals of Luis Suarez (10 ') and Edinson Cavani (90'), as well as the goal of Denis Cheryshev (23 '). In three matches, Uruguay achieved a 100 percent result, scoring five goals at the opponents' gate and not conceding any to their own, and from the first place stepped into the 1/8 finals.
See also: Uruguay - Russia 3: 0 Heads-up and match review In a parallel match, Saudi Arabia beat Egypt 2-1 and broke its series of 12 consecutive defeats at the FIFA World Championships. The Egyptians who took the last place, sweetened the bitter pill of their 45-year-old goalkeeper Essam al-Hadari, who became the oldest player in the history of the world championship. "Pharaohs" came forward after the goal of Mohamed Salah (22 '), but the exact blows of Salman al-Faraj from the penalty (45' + 4) and Salem al-Dausari on the fifth added minute of the second half allowed the Arabians to wrest such a long-awaited victory and a major note to finish the performance in the tournament.
Much more exciting was the outcome in Group B, in which the first place for more than 90 minutes of playing time several times passed from one team to another. Not realizing a penalty in the 53rd minute, Cristiano Ronaldo missed an excellent opportunity to consolidate the advantage of his team, obtained after the goal of Quaresma (45 '), for which Portugal paid not only a victory in the match, but also the first place in the group. Persistent Iranians in the 3rd added minute of the 2nd half equalized the efforts of Karim Ansarifard. Penalty in the gates of Asians became the 19th on the tournament. Thus, in Russia, a record for the number of 11-meter.
See also: Spain - Morocco 2: 2 The goal video and the match review of Spain had to do much more than expected (2: 2), but this draw still allowed it to bypass Portugal in the fight for the first line in the group. Khalid Butaib (14 ') and Youssef en Neseri (81') twice led Morocco forward, but the Spaniards each time compared the score with the efforts of Isco (19 ') and Iago Aspas (90' + 1). Moroccans and Iranians go home, having played their last matches with dignity.
See also: Iran - Portugal 1: 1 Goalscorer and match review It's interesting Goalkeeper of the Egyptian national team Essam al-Hadari at the age of 45 and 161 days became the most age-old football player ever to appear on the field in the FIFA World Cup match. The veteran showed that in his 45 years is in good form. In the match with Saudi Arabia, he not only made some magnificent rescues, but even reflected a penalty in the 41st minute. The Egyptian surpassed the record of Colombian Farid Mondragon, who played at the 2014 World Cup at the age of 43 years and three days. Essam al-Hadari has been in favor of the Egyptian national team since 1996 and has since held 159 matches and four times won the African Nations Cup.
In the parallel game the anniversary was celebrated by another goalkeeper. With Russia, Uruguayan Fernando Musler held his hundredth game for the national team.
In addition, he became the record holder of the national team in terms of the number of matches at the world championships - 14.
June 26 Australia - Peru (Group C, Sochi?) Denmark - France (Group C, Moscow, Luzhniki Stadium) Nigeria - Argentina (Group D, St. Petersburg) Iceland - Croatia (Group D, Rostov-on-Don) Source: FIFA.
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