| Score | 1-0 to Russia |
| Referee | Antonio Mateu Lahoz |
| Competition | FIFA World Cup Europe group H |
| Venue | Ak Bars Arena, Kazan |
| Attendance | 9,588 |
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Manager: Valerii Karpin
| Milan Skriniar | own goal | 24 |
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| Daniil Fomin for Fedor Smolov | 46 |
| Anton Zabolotny for Arsen Zakharyan | 46 |
| Dmitrii Chistyakov for Aleksandr Erokhin | 63 |
| Rifat Zhemaletdinov for Zelimkhan Bakaev | 73 |
| Fedor Kudryashov for Sergei Terekhov | 80 |
| Daniil Fomin | 84 | Y |
Manager: Štefan Tarkovič
| Patrik Hrošovský for Juraj Kucka | 64 |
| Albert Rusnák for Ondrej Duda | 64 |
| Dávid Strelec for Róbert Boženík | 64 |
| Ladislav Almási for Lukáš Haraslín | 80 |
| Tomáš Suslov for Peter Pekarík | 80 |
| Juraj Kucka | 52 | Y |
| Patrik Hrošovský | 88 | Y |