Vasili Berezutski,scored a late header to punish Hodgson's side for not scoring more goals after an encouraging display, interestingly Russia were the only team to reach the Euros that failed to score a header en route.
Russia were tactically perfect, they dint let England score from open play and deserved a draw. Akinfeev made some amazing saves and Artem Dyzuba can be very dangerous if he can up his game further.
Massive fights between fans everywhere, after 3 days of English Russian clashes last night locals had a fight with Northern Ireland fans. Poor organization by France, airline strikes, train strikes, unprepared police, they get away because they are an "elite" EU country.
If such a thing happened in India we would get banned from holding future international tournaments. But as it is France, a developed country, it is acceptable and visiting fans are to be blamed for hooliganism.
France's security organisation must pull up its socks and deal hard with nuisance creators, send them back. With recent terror attacks that are increasing, France hosting Euros are very very vulnerable and so are the players. I pray that nothing untoward incident occurs in this period.
Highlights and goal of Croatia vs Turkey match. Croatia won 1-0 by virtue of a Luka Modric stunner, Modric becomes the first Croat to score in two European Championships.
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Rooney made 55 passes with an 86% success rate. Thirty-eight of those were in the opposition half, the most from any England player