Euro 2016 Vine: Russia ‘Keeper Igor Akinfeev Floored By Flare As Clash With Montenegro Abandoned

Alan Duffy

28th, March 2015

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By Alan Duffy

Unfortunately, there have been quite a few unsavoury incidents in the Euro 2016 Qualifying campaign so far, with the behaviour of Croatia’s fans against Italy back in November one particular shocking.

However, in Podgorica on Friday night, things hit a new low when a flare thrown from the Montenegrin fans’  hit Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev right after the kick-off. The 28-year-old was stretchered off the pitch before being taken to hospital, with the game delayed for over half an hour.

However, in the second-half, referee Deniz Aytekin decided to abandon the game for good after brawling between the players and coaching staff of both teams.

The meleé happened after a Roman Shirokov penalty was saved by Montenegro goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic just after the hour-mark. Just after the spot-kick, another Russian player appeared to by struck by a missile which ignited the brawl, which left the officials with little choice put to call off the game.

Thankfully, according to hospital reports, Akinfeev has suffered no serious injuries although one imagines the Montenegrin FA are in for quite a response from UEFA, with Russia probably being awarded a 3-0 win for starters. Utter madness.

(Vine: INAKI FUTBOL)

(Photos: Getty Images)

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  1. Lukass says:

    As someone who has personally attended this match, all I can say is that I feel so ashamed that I was born in this country. By the way, the flare and this fight are actually only the tip of the iceberg of what transpired here tonight. During the ”half time” break, which by the way lasted almost half an hour, fans of both teams were throwing seats and all kinds of objects at each other for a solid 20 minutes straight. There was fighting before the match and there was fighting after the match. All I can say is that I am ashamed at having witnessed this disgrace of football today. We 100% deserve to be kicked out of qualifying for a while.

  2. Jarren says:

    Excuse my absolute igorance here, but is there some underlying beef between Montenegro & Russia?

  3. SG says:

    Although this wasn’t in Russia, just wait for World Cup 2018, which is. The shit will really hit the fan.

  4. Lukass says:

    The ”underlying beef” you are referring to is probably the fact that Montenegro will soon become part of NATO (enemy to Russia) and the fact that Russians own a lot of real estate properties here. Also ethnic Serbs from Montenegro joined forces with Russian fans in cheering against their country of birth. That being said, all of this crap was initiated and made by Montenegrin ”fans”. In short, to anyone coming from a normal country, this is a classical example of Eastern European ethnic-cultural-historic clusterf*ck…

  5. Pedro says:

    The thing I always wonder with this is how the fuck do they bring flares into the stadiums? At NFL stadiums it’s tough to even bring a damn water bottle because they search you at the gate, how fucking hard is that?

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