Roy Hodgson's new England is liked and entertained but is fooled in full recovery by the tough Russians in their debut at the 2016 European Football Championships. And in the end it is 1 to 1 with the Three Lions national team already forced to chase and envy the small Wales of Bale who beat Hamsik's Slovakia 2-1 yesterday.
The Marseille stadium where England and Russia met is the exact opposite of the dramatic landscape of the city set on fire by the devastating fury of the English hoolingans, who, completely drunk, began to rail against opposing fans and against the police with a terrible balance: a dying Englishman and a very serious Russian.
The game was instead pleasant and, after scoring with Dier and hitting the crossbar with captain Rooney, the English went very close to victory but the joke surprised them in the 92nd minute, in full stoppage time, when the Russian Berezutski grabbed the equalizer goal.
