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Artem Dzyuba and Isco face off (Getty)
Cape Town – Russia's dream at the 2018 World Cup continues as the Spaniards lost 4-3 to penalties 4- 3 completed 1-1.
On the occurrence: Russia / Spain
After dominating possession early in the match, Spain opened the scoring in the 11th minute thanks to Sergei Ignashevich 's own goal.
Although Spain continues to control the proceedings, there were few ways to attack the threat of the champions of 2010.
And Russia made them pay in the 39th minute when Gerard Spades missed the ball in the area.
With a perfect pbad, Artem Dzyuba tripped 1-1 with Artem Dzyuba.
Spain continued to dominate the possession of his teammates with the attackers.
Andreas Inestia the bench early in the match, came closest with a scoring shot that was saved by Igor Akinfeev.
Neither side was able to find a winner after the full time and the match came in 30 minutes of overtime
Time followed the same path as regulation time, with Spain who launched wave after wave of attack.
They were however penalized with five minutes in the match, with Spades seemingly pulled down in the region. A VAR decision was however taken by Russia
. In the last extra time action, Rodrigo scored on a goal saved by Akinfeev but after the extra time, the teams were still at the same level and the match decided by a penalty shot.
At 2-all in the shootout, Koke's penalty was saved by Akinfeev to give the advantage to the home. Spain remained penalized and Akinfeev was written in Russian folklore saving the last Spanish penalty taken by Iago Aspas.
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