Thanks to the goals from Suarez, Laxalt and Cavani Uruguay beat the hosts in Samara 3-0 in the match that was worth the lead of group A. Now Tabarez's team will face the second of group B (where Spain, Portugal and Iran are competing for the qualification) while Russia will face the winning team of the same group. In the other race in the afternoon Arabia wins over Egypt 2-1 but their experience in the world championship closes today. El Hadary, the oldest goalkeeper in the World Cup finals round, received an honourable mention as he took a penalty kick at the end of the first half at Volgograd.

Uruguay and Russia are qualified in the round of 16 after the last two challenges in the Group A: Uruguay has beaten the hosts in Samara 3-0 and in the match that was worth the head of the group has fielded quantity and quality with a real test of strength. Russians were not on the track in today's race but the quality of the adversary compared to the first two opponents was quite different. In the other event of the same group Arabia beat Egypt 2-1 but their experience in the world event closes today and they will soon return home.

The Uruguayans will now face the second of Group B in Sochi on Saturday 30 at 20:00 while Russia will play Sunday 1 July at 16:00 in Moscow against the first of the same group.

Uruguay-Russia 3-0 (Suarez, Laxalt, Cavani)

Important victory for the boys of Master Tabarez for 3-0 against Russia: Uruguay has a strong match and at the 9′ minute has found the advantage with Luis Suarez who defeated Akinfeev with a punishment kicked from the edge of the area: the Pistolero kicked strong on the goalkeeper's post and thanks to Cavani's movement in front of the extreme Russian defender he found the low corner.

Russia's response arrived immediately: Dzyuba passed to Cheryshev, who has kicked very well towards the Uruguayan goal but Muslera deviated it, albeit with some problems. At 23′ came the doubling of Diego Laxalt who kicked hard towards the Russian goal and a deviation of Cheryshev put off Akinfeev. Bentancur went close to tris around half an hour but he waited too long before kicking while at minute 36 Russia remained in 10 people because Igor Smolnikov got the second yellow within 12′.

A few seconds before the end of the game came the first goal of this World Championship by Edinson Cavani who reiterated in the net a ball that was deviated by Akinfeev: it unlocked the Matador and now Uruguay dreams big.

For the first time since 15/07/1966 the Uruguayan national team scored more than one goal in the first half of the World Cup: at that time, the France suffered the goals of Rocha and Cortés. After 8 years Uruguay qualifies to the last sixteen, as the first in his group : the last time was in South Africa 2010 when the team of Tabarez won the fourth place.

Saudi Arabia-Egypt 2-1 (Salah, Alfaraj, Al-Dawsari)

Quiet game at Volgogard, between two teams that have collected only defeats in the first matches of the World Championship. After a good initial possession of the ball by Arabia, is Egypt to find the goal with Mohamed Salah at 22′: the Liverpool striker has beaten the opponent's goalkeeper with a soft touch realizing the 50th goal of the season and the first goal on Egypt's action at the World Cup since 1934. Momo has also become the best all-time bomber in the Pharaohs World Cup, equal to Fazwi, who scored two goals in the tournament played in Italy 84 years ago.

Great emotions in the last minutes: two penalties are assigned to Saudi Arabia but if the second is realized by Alfaraj at 50′, on the occasion of the first penalty El Hadary, older goalkeeper to play a final phase of the World Cup, rejected the conclusion of Bahibir making his day even more magical. A few seconds from the end came the goal of victory for Arabia thanks to a goal of Salem Al-Dawsari on the assist of Abdullah Ateef.

With today's goal Mohamed Salah has found the way to goal in all the last five appearances with the Egyptian national team (6) and, despite the elimination in the first round, his presence on the field has made happy thousands of compatriots who consider him the undisputed leader of this team.

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