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RUSSIA vs TUNISIA

Match Report below

Match Stats: -

MAN OF THE MATCH: Valery Karpin (Russia)

Teams:

Russia:  
           1-Ruslan Nigmatullin 
           2-Yuri Kovtun 
           3-Yuri Nikiforov 
           7-Viktor Onopko 
           5-Andrei Solomatin 
           6-Igor Semshov (21-Dmitry Khoklov 46) 
           8-Valery Karpin 
           9-Yegor Titov 
         20-Marat Izmailov (15-Dmitry Alenichev 78) 
         11-Vladimir Beschastnykh (22-Dmitry Sychyev 55) 
         19-Ruslan Pimenov

Tunisia:
           1-Ali Boumnijel 
           2-Khaled Badra (20-Ali Zitouni 83) 
           4-Mohamed Mkacher 
           6-Hatem Trabelsi 
         12-Raouf Bouzaiane 
         15-Radhi Jaidi 
           8-Hassan Gabsi (7-Imed Mhadhebi 67) 
         13-Riadh Bouazizi 
         18-Slim Ben Achour 
         11-Adel Sellimi (3-Zoubeir Baya 67) 
           5-Ziad Jaziri

Att: 30,957
Ref: Peter Prendergast (Jamaica)
Linesmen: Michael Ragoonath (Trinidad) & Paul Smith (New Zealand)

Match Report: -

A game between two weaker sides of the tournament, turned about to be a fairly comfortable win for Russia as they ran out 2-0 winners over Tunisia. The game seemed to consist of attacking play from Russia as they didn't really get going and play as well as they can do. The goals coming from Titov in the 59th minute and then Karpin to finish off the match 4 minutes later with a penalty.