• Diego Laxalt scores on a deflected ball for Uruguay, who now have a 2-0 lead over Russia in a Group A World Cup match. Luis Suarez scored on a free kick in the 10th minute to start things off for Uruguay.
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How to watch: In the U.S., Fox and Telemundo have the broadcast at 10 a.m., but you can stream it here.
29’: Uruguay Threatens Again
Uruguay breaks, and Bentancur gets the ball with only the keeper to beat. But he can’t beat him. Akinfeev with the good save on his knees.
27’: Egypt 1, Saudi Arabia 0
Over in the other game, Egypt has gone up 1-0. Yes, Mo Salah was the scorer.
Andrew Das: Tough break for Akinfeev, as Laxalt’s shot hits Cheryshev and wrong-foots him. Uruguay is now doing to Russia what Russia did to the group’s minnows: Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The round of 16 won’t be easy for either of these teams regardless of the result: Spain or Portugal likely awaits.
23’: GOAL! Uruguay Leads, 2-0.
Another Uruguayan long-range effort, by Diego Laxalt this time, caroms off Cheryshev, changes directions rapidly and hits the net.
18’: Russia Corner Comes Up Short
Smolnikov of Russia gets his head to a corner but beats it hard into the ground.
Andrew Das: Dzyuba, a box truck of a man, gets his head to a corner but sends it straight into the turf and it bounces over the crossbar. His size appears to be an issue for Uruguay after all; he’s winning everything in the air in the Uruguay end, and that could be a problem for them at some point.
13’: Russia Gets a Chance
Russia gets a corner, but it’s right to the keeper. Uruguay’s World Cup record when Suarez scores is 4-0, the BBC reports.
Andrew Das: Russia nearly strikes right back, with Dzyuba winning a high ball and feeding it into the path of Cheryshev. But the shot hits Muslera in the mitts, and he pushes it aside. Russia hasn’t trailed yet in the World Cup — until now — so that immediate punchback is probably a good sign for their fans.
10: GOAL! Uruguay Leads
Luis Suarez takes a free kick from inches outside the box, and sends it perfectly into the corner of the net. Uruguay won its first two games 1-0 and it’s 1-0 up here already.
Andrew Das: Devastatingly effective free kick for Suarez, who gets his second goal of the tournament. His teammates helped him there, peeling out of the wall in front of Akinfeev to clear a lane for the ball. In the end, Suarez probably didn’t need it — that one was going in either way.
9’: Suarez Is Blocked, but Yellow for Russia
After a failed Russian counterattack, Suarez claps on to a bad back pass, dribbled into the box and fires. Blocked.
Soon after, Russia’s Yury Gazinskiy gets a yellow card for a poor tackle. Free kick coming for Uruguay.
6’: Uruguay From Way Downtown
Caceres belts a shot from even further out than Vecino. Is Uruguay’s strategy today to take 50-yard shots?
Andrew Das: The Russians are playing long balls early, looking for Dzyuba. But Godin and Co. are not new to this, and that kind of attack will be welcome for them over the incisive passing the Russians used to carve up Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
4’: How Will They Play?
A game that is not crucial for either team often goes one of two ways. It could turn flabby, with neither team playing with urgency. Or the lack of real pressure could free up both teams to play loose, creative soccer. The neutral observer is hoping for the second scenario.
3’: Uruguay Takes the First Shot
Bombs away from Matias Vecino of Uruguay, who tries a shot from far, far out. It goes narrowly wide.
Kickoff!
Uruguay in blue, Russia in white. Both teams have brought in a few new players, but the big names, like Suarez and Cavani for Uruguay and Russian scorer Cheryshev, are all still in the lineup.
Uruguay’s Starting Lineup
Uruguay have switched to a 3-5-2 formation (from a 4-4-2), probably in an effort to shore up their midfield to feed forwards Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez.
Goalkeeper: 1 Fernando Muslera (Galatasaray)
Defenders: 3 Diego Godin (Atlético Madrid), 19 Sebastian Coates (Sporting Lisbon), 22 Martin Caceres (Lazio)
Midfielders: 8 Nahitan Nandez (Boca Juniors), 14 Lucas Torreira (Sampdoria), 15 Matias Vecino (Inter Milan), 6 Rodrigo Bentancur (Juventus), 17 Diego Laxalt (Genoa)
Forwards: 21 Edinson Cavani (Paris St Germain), 9 Luis Suarez (Barcelona)
Russia’s Starting Lineup
Russia makes some lineup changes: Igor Smolnikov replaces Mario Fernandes, Fedor Kudriashov replaces Yuri Zhirkov, and Aleksey Miranchuk plays for Aleksandr Golovin, who is sitting on a yellow card.
Goalkeeper: 1 Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow)
Defenders: 13 Fedor Kudryashov (Rubin Kazan), 3 Ilya Kutepov (Spartak Moscow), 4 Sergei Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), 23 Igor Smolnikov (Zenit St Petersburg)
Midfielders: 8 Yuri Gazinskiy (Krasnodar), 11 Roman Zobnin (Spartak Moscow), 19 Aleksandr Samedov (Spartak Moscow), 6 Denis Cheryshev (Villarreal), 15 Aleksey Miranchuk (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Forwards: 22 Artem Dzyuba (Arsenal Tula)
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Uruguay vs. Russia Top Story Lines
• Both teams will be playing in the round of 16. Their most likely opponents in that round will be difficult: Spain and Portugal.
• The winner of this game wins the group, with Russia prevailing if it’s draw, because it has a better goal difference, 8-1 versus 2-0.
• Iranian fans gathered outside Portugal’s team hotel last night, chanting, blowing horns and singing. The revelry was so loud and lasted so long, that Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo eventually made an appearance in his window and signaled to the Iranians that he was trying to get some sleep.
• Uruguay joins Croatia as the only teams that have not yet surrendered a goal.
• Russia’s eight goals tie England and Belgium for the most at the Cup through two games. The offensive explosion is surprising, as the team struggled in the months leading up to the event, drawing Turkey in its final warm-up, for example.
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• Playing the same teams as Russia, Uruguay also got two wins, but they were both by 1-0 scores.
• What The Times said (about Uruguay vs. Saudi Arabia): “If you’re not watching this game, you’re not missing much.”
• Russia’s top scorers have been Denis Cheryshev, with three goals, and Artem Dzyuba with two. Cheryshev was a surprise selection to the team, and only got on the field because Alan Dzagoev was injured early in the first game.
• Suarez, the team’s star, got the goal in the second game, against Saudi Arabia.
• Despite the gap in performance in Games 1 and 2, and home-field advantage, Uruguay is the slight favorite with bookmakers.
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