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This defeat represented the first time that Germany had lost the opening game in defence of their trophy. They beat Argentina 3–1 in 1958, drew 0–0 with Poland in 1978, and defeated Bolivia 1–0 in 1994. [10] Germany lost their opening match at a World Cup for only the second time, having done so in 1982, against Algeria.
In the host nation of Russia, the final was the third-most watched match of the 2018 World Cup and accounted for around 50% of the nation's population. [119] In total, the final drew more than 160 million viewers in 20 European territories, including Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany. [120] [121]
Russia reached the quarter-final of the World Cup for the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union. Also was the first win of Russia in a knockout stage of World Cup since 1966, still like Soviet Union. Ignashevich became the oldest player to score an own goal at the World Cup, aged 38 years and 352 days. [21]
The 50th anniversary of the "Death Match" in 1992 marked the beginning of eyewitness reports in Ukrainian mass media: Kyiv Radio broadcast an interview with former Dynamo player Makar Honcharenko [3] Honcharenko denied the version that the players were threatened by an SS officer: "Nobody from the official administration blackmailed us for giving up the match."
The group consisted of Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Russia. [1] [2] Using FIFA World Rankings as a measure of the strength of the teams, The Guardian calculated in 2007 that the strongest "Group of Death" of all time was the Euro 1996 Group C. The teams (and world rankings) were Germany (2), Russia (3), Italy (7) and the Czech ...
Russia also defeated Scotland, Cyprus and Kazakhstan twice and qualified for the UEFA Euro 2020. [54] Russia consolidated its second place in the group despite being thrashed by number-one ranked Belgium 1–4 at home. [55] Russia lost their first match against Belgium in a 3–0 defeat, but won their second match against Finland 1–0.
2.2 Germany vs Russia. 2.3 Italy vs Sweden. 3 Semi finals. Toggle Semi finals subsection. 3.1 Hungary vs Germany. 3.2 Austria vs Italy. 4 Final. 5 Final summary. 6 ...
It was the only time Russia hosted the tournament and the third time the Confederations Cup was held in the European continent. As hosts, Russia qualified automatically for the tournament; they were joined by the six winners of the FIFA confederation championships and the 2014 FIFA World Cup champions, Germany.