Russias's victory means that the host nation has never lost their opening match in any of the 21 editions of the FIFA World Cup.
Man of the Match Denis Cheryshev
"I could never have dreamed of anything like this . I already felt very happy just to be the squad . My second goal , we spent some time working on that during training sessions . I was trying to be up there with Dzyuba , he won it with a header and I just kicked the ball - I didn't have time to think ! "
Yury Gazinsky 12'
Denis Cheryshev 43' , 90+1'
Artem Dzyuba 71'
Aleksandr Golovin 90+4'