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HT - It's goalless at the half-time break in St Petersburg
45' - No stoppage time added in the first half
42' - First clear chance for Salah, he turned around to beat his marker and shot with his left-foot from top of the Russian box. The strike went just wide of goal though. Good effort.
41' - Artem Dzyuba head it over the Egypt crossbar.
37' - Denis Cheryshev's tantalising cross-in from the left flank found no takers inside the Egypt box
34' - Timely clearance from Yuri Zhirkov. Salah was lurking just behind him. Nothing substantial came of the resultant Egypt corner
31' - Russia have dominated the proceedings so far. Egypt losing the ball quite easily in the middle
28' - Another Russian attack from the left flank. Aleksandr Golovin's cross-in for Artem Dzyuba was cleared out by Egypt defender
26' - Egypt defender head it out of his own goalkeeper's hand. It could have cost them dearly, but somehow Mohamed El-Shenawy hold on with the ball during the second cross-in from Russia.
23' - Yuri Gazinskiy's cross-in from the left flank was little high for the jumping Artem Dzyuba in front of Egypt goal
19' - Denis Cheryshev effort from the distance went over the Egypt crossbar
16' - WIDE! Trezeguet tried to curl an effort into the right-hand corner of Akinfeev's net but it's just wide off the mark.
14' - Corner for Egypt, first of the match for them. Mohsen's header from the edge of the six-yard box was deflected. Another corner for Egypt.
8' - Free-kick for Russia. It ended with another corner for the Russians, which they took short but nothing came of it.
7' - Egypt's Elneny gave the ball away sloppily, and Golovin dragged his shot wide of Egypt goal from 20 yards.
5' - Corner for Russia. Short corner taken and the final header from veteran defender Sergei Ignashevich was straight to Egypt goalkeeper Mohamed El-Shenawy
2' - Early chance for Russia, Denis Cheryshev's through ball was just ahead of his team-mate Artem Dzyuba
Here we go...
KICK-OFF TIME
*Time for National Anthems*
Starting line-ups
Russia: Igor Akinfeev; Mario Fernandes, Ilya Kutepov, Sergei Ignashevich, Yuri Zhirkov; Yuri Gazinskiy, Roman Zobnin; Aleksandr Samedov, Aleksandr Golovin, Denis Cheryshev; Artem Dzyuba.
Egypt: Mohamed El-Shenawy; Ahmed Fathy, Ali Gabr, Ahmed Hegazi, Mohamed Shafy; Mohamed Elneny, Tarek Hamed; Mohamed Salah, Abdallah El Said, Trezeguet; Marwan Mohsen.
TEAM NEWS
Egypt's talismanic striker Mohamed Salah was named in their starting line-up for their second World Cup Group A match against Russia in St Petersburg on Tuesday. Salah missed Egypt's 0-1 defeat by Uruguay in their first game and replaces Amr Warda in the only change made by coach Hector Cuper.
Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov made two changes to the team that thrashed Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the opening game of the tournament, with winger Denis Cheryshev, who scored twice in that match, replacing injured midfielder Alan Dzagoev. Forward Artem Dzyuba, who scored a minute after coming on from the bench in the second half, is the other change and starts in place of striker Fyodor Smolov.
Hello and welcome to the live coverage of Group A match between Russia and Egypt. The match starts at 23:30 IST,
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