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EURO 2020: Aleksei Miranchuk delivers at last to rekindle Russian hopes

Football - Euro 2020 - Group B - Finland v Russia - Saint Petersburg Arena, Saint Petersburg, Russia - June 16, 2021. Russia players celebrate after the match. [REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina]

Russia revived their hopes of reaching the Euro 2020 knockout stages with an unimpressive 1-0 win over Finland on Wednesday in which Aleksei Miranchuk made all the difference with a sublime individual performance.

The 25-year-old attacking midfielder, who came on as a substitute in the opening 3-0 defeat by Belgium, was deployed as a forward in a 4-3-3 formation against the Finns and finally delivered for his country on the big stage.

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