Euro 2020 .. History does justice to Belgium against Russia

Belgium will open its Euro 2020 campaign against Russia in Group B at 9:00 pm today, Saturday, at the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia.

And brought together 7 matches between Belgium and Russia at the international level, the first of which was a friendly in 1996, and ended in a goalless draw between them.

The Belgian national team has not been defeated in any match against Russia throughout history, as it won 5 matches and settled a draw in two matches.

Among the seven confrontations that brought together Belgium and Russia, two matches ended with the first victory of the Red Devils 3-2 in the 2002 World Cup, and then repeating the victory with a clean goal in the 2014 World Cup.

The Russian national team, the owner of the land and the public, enter the match in high spirits due to the experiences that the team gained in the last World Cup and the successes achieved by the "bear", which gave him the necessary experiences in an attempt to glow on the continent, especially as he hopes to get the best results against the leader of the world ranking in the match.

The Russian team is aware of the danger of its Belgian counterpart, but the ground factor will greatly help the players to appear remarkably in the match, which will be the beginning of the start towards the playoffs of the "Euro 2020" competition.

The Belgium team enters the match in search of winning and achieving the three points after the great morale boost that the players received a few days before the start of the continental competition, after King Louis Philippe of Belgium visited the team camp yesterday evening, Thursday, in which he spoke with the star Eden Hazard, Real Madrid player, who He recently returned from injury, and is ready to participate.

The Belgian national team players' morale boosted the federation's decision to allocate a reward of 435,000 euros to each player in the event of winning the continental title, where each player gets 42 thousand euros if they pass the group stage, and the value of the reward will rise to 170,000 euros if the team qualified for the quarter-finals, and it will increase to 290 thousand in The status of qualifying for the golden square, and 370 thousand if the team managed to reach the final of the tournament.

Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne is absent from today's match as a result of the injury he sustained in the Champions League final Chelsea match, which contributed to the team losing one of the best midfield players in the world.

While the Belgian team's attack will be led by Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku, who is the most expensive player in the match, whose marketing value reached 100 million euros, according to recent Transfermarkt estimates.