Day One Round Up

Russia are the stars of the show as miniEURO2014 gets off to a goal-filled start

Russian minifootballers meant real business in first day of European championship held in Herceg Novi. Russia was at their finest and scored six goals against Cyprus and Ratnikov was a hat trick hero.

Host Montenegro fought a hard battle against Scotland but managed to win 3:2 with brace of Mr Ä‘enović and some great saves of Mirotić.

Moldova took care of Israel in last moments of game with great header from Eduard Valutza. Croatia overcame Italy, they came from behind and gained three points at start of tournament. Spain took a nice win against Czech Republic with brace of Mario Santos Fuentes.

All results and scorers:

Montenegro – Scotland 3:2

9’ 1:0 Darko Alibabic

10’ 1:1 Kevin Hagen

13’ 1:2 Joe Andrew

16’ 2:2 Mrđenović

32′ 3:2 MrÄ‘enović

Czech Republic – Spain 0:3 FT

12′ 0:1 Mario Santos Fuentes

35′ 0:2 Mario Santos Fuentes

40′ 0:3 Luis Lanca Dualto

Israel – Moldova 1:2 FT

12′ 0:1 Oleg Soimu

30′ 1:1 Roman Podolsky

40′ 1:2 Eduard Valutza

Croatia – Italy 2:1 FT

18′ 0:1 Andrea Chirivi

23′ 1:1 Ivan Rančić

25′ 2:1 Zoran Lukavečki

Cyprus – Russia 0:6 FT

11’ 0:1 Dmitry Ratnikov

16’ 0:2 Dmitry Ratnikov

18’ 0:3 Konstantin Anisimov

24’ 0:4 Dmitry Ratnikov

33’ 0:5 Alexey Pavlenko

39’ 0:6 Maxim Kovalchuk