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Russia defeats Spain and goes to quarter-finals.
So, basically, the Russian strategy became an endurance game to resist all the way from after scoring the equalizer to the penalty shootout and paid-off with Spain, eventually, wearing themselves down at extra time.
Just in one match Ignashevich fell hard from that own goal in order to rise redeeming himself by scoring his penalty shot at the shootouts.
However, the true star of the match was the Russian goalkeeper, Igor Akinfeev. I mean when Spain shot its last penalty I thought Aspas blew away the ball, however, the video repetition clearly showed how the ball bounce off from Akinfeev's foot as if kicked it away.
Spain 1 - 1 Russia
Penalties (3 - 4)
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