Russia V Egypt World Cup 2018

Russia V Egypt

(Synopsis in red)

Pregame bets:

Today’s game will all depend on if Mo Salah is playing. If yes then we have a real game on our hands, if not then forget it Egypt will be out. If he is playing I think he will dramatically change Egypt’s fortunes, and is sure to give the Russian defenders something to think about. Egypt, knowing they need a result, could easily beat a Russian team that were lucky that SA made them look so good, because they aren’t really.

€20.00 Single
Russia v Egypt – Away Team Multi Corners Egypt Over (2.5) 10/11

€1.00 Single
Russia v Egypt – To Score a Hat-Trick Mohamed Salah 150/1 (for sport)

€5.00 Single
Russia v Egypt – Penalty Scored? Yes 10/3

€8.00 Single
Egypt 3/1

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Happy with those two bets, alas Mo didn’t really have much influence but anyhow…… I still won though!

Beers: Group A of Beer World Cup:

World Cup of Beer Group A

Looking forward to trying another great Russian beer, as the first one was outstanding, albeit very strong! No match here again as Egypt is another kebab nation.

Had a nice American Pale Ale from Knightberg, lovely and tasty and like in the football, made it 2/2 in the beer world cup for Russia, and through to the last 16.

PreGame:

Excellent win for Russia in their opener and a bit of a surprise that they played as well as anyone expected, even more so for their supporters. They took it to the Saudi’s from the get go, relentless attack after attack, harrying the Saudi’s time and again, hounding them, pressurizing them into making mistakes, and boy did they make some elementary mistakes, especially their back two.

For the first game of the World Cup it was a decent enough opener, 5 good goals, a lot of action and some nice play. For me Y Zhirkov and R Zobnin down the left flank were a constant thorn all game to the Saudi’s and it was nice to see Zobnin round off an excellent performance with a goal of his own in the dying seconds of the game. Also to note, fuck me For egyptDzyuba is an animal, the size of him, lol!

Russia now look at today;s game against Egypt with utmost confidence knowing that another performance like the opener will see them through to round two.

Egypt: Ok, not the best game at all in their opening game. A shame that they couldn’t have held out, their defence certainly played well enough to get a draw in the game. The team were very well set up, and I kind of understand the manager not wanting to play Salah, but perhaps he could have brought him on for the last ten minutes or so, if only to send some shivers down the Uruguayan defence.

Warda was fairly lively for Egypt, but should have been substituted much earlier in the second as he had gone off the boil big time, not even bothering to join the attack at times. While Kahraba was lively when he came on, and the goalkeeper had an excellent game, particularly the save near the end from Cavani. Ahmed El-Shenawy looks like he might have done enough to get a move to Europe with that great display of goalkeeping (He plays with Zamalek in Egypt).

But for Egypt it all depends on that man, Mo. If he plays Egypt have a serious chance, if not then no hope today. I am sure he will play today, ok he still has that niggly injury but today its do or die for his country. A nation expects!

A more detailed review on Russia here and on Egypt here

Salah was playing, great we all thought, but little did we know how muck the rest of the Egyptian team would be even with their talisman. I mean they didn’t really have a good system to use him, he was left stranded on his own for long periods, and the Egyptian midfield often took the balls backwards when in possession rather than look for through balls or at least launch the ball in Salah’s direction. That’s how it looked to me anyhow.

Russia showed from the very beginning their intention to take this game by the scruff of the neck, Salah or no Salah they were intent on winning this game. Good early pressure had the Egyptian defence in all sorts of problems, they kept giving the ball away and were very sloppy at the back. Egypt also played very slowly, no real intensity in their play. Salah though, was lurking all the time in and around the box, and but for Zhirkov’s last ditch clearance he might have had a tap in. He also had a swinging effort go the wrong side of the post. He really needed more help from his team mates.

Didn’t have to wait too long in the second half for a goal as it came after a very sloppy display of goal keeping by El-Shenawy who choose not to catch a simple ball and the resulting clearance made its way back into the box and off the defender Fathy for a pathetic own goal. Two more goals came, Cheryshev, scored a well deserved second from a great assist by Fernandes, and Dzyuba, the man mountain scored a typical centre forward effort bringing the ball brilliantly down on his chest and then rifling it home bottom corner, class stuff.

Egypt got one back from a penalty (good call ref) from Salah, but by then the game was over, and with it their tournament. Egypt were simply not good enough, with or without Mo, and lucky for Russia to have two handy training games before their world cup starts proper against Uruguay.

Music to get you in the mood

DJ Groove feat. Molodoj & Philipp Leto – Sunrise (Russia) V Aly & Fila feat. Jwaydan – We Control The Sunlight (Egypt)