In an era where only certain third place teams go through, it's a little trickier to assess how teams look after group games.

Make no mistake though a win for Finland would all but put them through into the last-16, while defeat for Russia would all but eliminate them - especially with their very inferior goal difference.

Finland players of course could only watch on in horror as medics attended to Denmark's Christian Eriksen in their opening game.

With the midfielder now pleasingly looking he is on the road to recovery, those same Finalnd players have been showing support for the current Inter Milan and former Spurs star during the warm up with T-shirts reading 'Get well soon Christian!'.

Finland make one change from that win over Denmark as Rasmus Schuller replaces captain Tim Sparv who appears to be carrying a slight knee issue.

Russia meanwhile make a change in goal as Matevi Safonov is handed just his second cap to replace Anton Shunin.

There are two other changes for Russia following the 3-0 defeat by Belgium, with Igor Diveyev replacing Andrei Semenov in defence while Yuri Zhirkov makes way for Aleksei Miranchuk who features in attack.

In fact it's a little short of certain that six points will be enough to progress to the second round and Finland are targeting that this afternoon as they take a brief pitch inspection of the pitch at St Petersburg.

Safonov, Diveyev, Dzikhiya, Fernandes, Barinov, Kuzyayev, Ozdoev, Zobnin, Golovin, Miranchuk, Dzyuba.

As you well know, animals predicting football results at major tournaments is a fool-proof way of working out who's going to win.

In Russia, they tried it with a tiger cub today... meet this little guy, from the Bryansk State Circus. And now imagine how spectacularly the trick backfired when all the onlooking Russians watched him go and eat from Finland's bowl.

So that's decided then, it's three points for the Finns, who take their tally to six points in the group and leave Russia staring at an all-too-early exit.

The sun is shining, it's 20 degrees... a wonderful day for a game of tournament football!

So, as you're well aware, we're heading into the second round of fixtures in the group stages of the Euros... and there were a fair few shocks in the opening matches.

None more so than Finland, who recorded a 1-0 win over Denmark in a game that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons with Christian Eriksen's collapse.

There will, of course, always be an asterisk next to Finland's win given the circumstances and the state of Denmark's players in the aftermath, but it won't matter to the winning team, who have those three points in the bag.

Russia, meanwhile, were well-beaten by an impressive Belgium... and more specifically, an impressive Romelu Lukaku. The final score was 3-0, and the Russians will be desperate to get back on track with a victory today.

Hello and welcome to Sportsmail's live blog for Finland's clash against Russia in Euro 2020 Group B. There's under two hours to go until kick-off, so let's begin the build-up to the game...