International Friendly

FT Sunday, March 26, 2023
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Russia LWDDD 2
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Match Report

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Russia ease past Iraq in first home international since Ukraine invasion

Russia played their first match on home soil since November 2021 after being barred from global competitions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

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Lineups

RUS · 4-3-3

  1. 16Sergey PesjakovG
  2. 5Maksim OsipenkoCD-L
  3. 22Ruslan LitvinovCD-R
  4. 2Aleksandr SilyanovLB
  5. 13Danil DenisovRB
  6. 15Danil GlebovCM
  7. 8Daniil FominLM
  8. 18Danil PrutsevRM
  9. 7Aleksandr SobolevF
  10. 20Sergei PinyaevLF
  11. 27Ivan OblyakovRF

IRQ · 3-4-1-2

  1. 12Jalal HassanG
  2. 4Mustafa NadhimCD
  3. 6Ali Adnan KadhimCD-L
  4. 5Ali FaezCD-R
  5. 20Osama JabbarCM-L
  6. 14Amjad AttwanCM-R
  7. 10Zidane IqbalAM
  8. 3Hasan RaedLM
  9. 8Ibrahim BayeshRM
  10. 9Ali Al-HamadiCF-L
  11. 18Aymen HusseinCF-R

Timeline

  1. 45' Ibrahim Bayesh (Iraq) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  2. 45' Substitution, Russia. Anton Miranchuk replaces Danil Prutsev.
  3. 50' Goal! Russia 1, Iraq 0. Anton Miranchuk (Russia) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
  4. 56' Aymen Hussein (Iraq) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  5. 58' Goal! Russia 2, Iraq 0. Sergey Pinyaev (Russia) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Maksim Osipenko.
  6. 66' Substitution, Russia. Daniil Khlusevich replaces Maksim Osipenko.
  7. 67' Substitution, Iraq. El Ani replaces Ali Adnan.
  8. 67' Substitution, Iraq. Hussein Ammar replaces Ibrahim Bayesh.
  9. 67' Substitution, Russia. Daler Kuzyaev replaces Daniil Fomin.
  10. 71' Substitution, Russia. Anton Zinkovskiy replaces Sergey Pinyaev.
  11. 74' Substitution, Iraq. Ahmad Farhan replaces Ali Al Hamadi.
  12. 74' Substitution, Iraq. Hamzah Adnan replaces Hasan Raed Matrook.
  13. 74' Substitution, Russia. Konstantin Tyukavin replaces Aleksandr Sobolev.
  14. 80' Substitution, Russia. Vyacheslav Karavaev replaces Ivan Oblyakov.
  15. 81' Substitution, Iraq. Aso Rustom replaces Aymen Hussein.
  16. 81' Substitution, Iraq. Karar Nabeel replaces Amjad Attwan.
  17. 90'+2' Danil Glebov (Russia) is shown the yellow card.
  18. 90'+3' Daler Kuzyaev (Russia) is shown the red card for violent conduct.

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