weden’s national team triumphed over Mexico with a 3-0 win in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Group F match on Wednesday. The game attended by 33,061 people was played in Yekaterinburg.
The goals were scored by Ludwig Augustinsson (50’), Andreas Granqvist (62’, from penalty kick). Mexico’s Edson Alvarez scored an own goal (74’).
Both teams have six points each, reaching the World Cup knockout stage.
A total of 32 national football teams are participating in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in 11 cities across Russia between June 14 and July 15.
The teams were divided into eight groups, with four in each, and the top two from their relevant groups will proceed to the next round, known as the playoffs or the knockout stage, to keep vying for the much-coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy.
Russia is hosting its first ever FIFA World Cup, which kicked off with a spectacular opening show at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on June 14.
The country selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup. They are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.