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FT Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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Match Report

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N'Golo Kante and Dmitri Payet net birthday goals for France vs. Russia

Leicester midfielder N'Golo Kante and substitute Dimitri Payet both marked their birthday with fine goals as Euro 2016 hosts France beat Russia 4-2.

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Head to Head

Lineups

FRA

  1. 1Hugo LlorisG
  2. 5Mamadou SakhoCD-L
  3. 4Raphaël VaraneCD-R
  4. 3Patrice EvraLB
  5. 15Bacary SagnaRB
  6. 12Lassana DiarraCM
  7. 19Paul PogbaLM
  8. 13N'Golo KantéRM
  9. 10André-Pierre GignacF
  10. 11Anthony MartialLF
  11. 7Antoine GriezmannRF

Substitutes

  1. 21Laurent KoscielnySUB
  2. 20Kingsley ComanSUB
  3. 22Jérémy MathieuSUB
  4. 18Moussa SissokoSUB
  5. 23Benoit CostilSUB
  6. 9Olivier GiroudSUB
  7. 14Blaise MatuidiSUB
  8. 16Steve MandandaSUB
  9. 17Lucas DigneSUB
  10. 2Christophe JalletSUB
  11. 6Yohan CabayeSUB
  12. 8Dimitri PayetSUB

RUS

  1. 1Igor AkinfeevG
  2. 6Aleksei BerezutskiCD-L
  3. 14Vasili BerezutskiCD-R
  4. 18Yuri ZhirkovLB
  5. 2Oleg KuzminRB
  6. 10Alan DzagoevCM-L
  7. 24Aleksandr GolovinCM-R
  8. 17Oleg ShatovLM
  9. 9Aleksandr KokorinRM
  10. 22Artem DzyubaF
  11. 15Roman ShirokovRCF

Substitutes

  1. 21Aleksei IonovSUB
  2. 5Pavel MamaevSUB
  3. 20Fedor SmolovSUB
  4. 8Denis GlushakovSUB
  5. 23Dmitri KombarovSUB
  6. 19Aleksandr SamedovSUB
  7. 4Sergey IgnashevichSUB
  8. 27Dmitri TarasovSUB
  9. 12Yuri LodyginSUB
  10. 3Igor SmolnikovSUB
  11. 11Alexander KerzhakovSUB
  12. 29Oleg IvanovSUB

Timeline

  1. 8' N'Golo Kanté (France) Goal at 8'
  2. 36' Aleksandr Kokorin (Russia) Yellow Card at 36'
  3. 38' Andre-Pierre Gignac (France) Goal at 38'
  4. 45' Kingsley Coman (France) Substitution at 45'
  5. 45' Yury Lodygin (Russia) Substitution at 45'
  6. 45' Jérémy Mathieu (France) Substitution at 45'
  7. 46' Oleg Kuzmin (Russia) Yellow Card at 46'
  8. 54' Lucas Digne (France) Substitution at 54'
  9. 56' Aleksandr Kokorin (Russia) Goal at 56'
  10. 62' Dimitri Payet (France) Substitution at 62'
  11. 63' Alexei Berezutsky (Russia) Yellow Card at 63'
  12. 64' Dimitri Payet (France) Goal - Free-kick at 64'
  13. 68' Yury Zhirkov (Russia) Goal at 68'
  14. 69' Igor Smolnikov (Russia) Substitution at 69'
  15. 69' Moussa Sissoko (France) Substitution at 69'
  16. 70' Pavel Mamayev (Russia) Substitution at 70'
  17. 76' Kingsley Coman (France) Goal at 76'
  18. 79' Olivier Giroud (France) Substitution at 79'
  19. 80' Denis Glushakov (Russia) Substitution at 80'
  20. 80' Fedor Smolov (Russia) Substitution at 80'
  21. 88' Alexander Samedov (Russia) Substitution at 88'

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