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Video: Newly-promoted FC Ural hold champions CSKA 2-2 in season-opener

Newly-promoted FC Ural hold Russian champions CSKA Moscow to 2-2 draw in season-opener.

The Russian champions CSKA took on newly-promoted FC Ural in this season’s opener

And CSKA took a deserved lead after 24 minutes. Ahmed Musa forcing the ball home.

But Ural caught the champions napping with a swift counter-attack. One botched clearance later and their former striker Spartak Gogniyev equalised

Half-an-hour later the he was at it again, it was hard to tell which side were the champions and which ones were the newly promoted.

But Ural were denied a famous upset, goalkeeper Evgeny Pomazan, got too excited. Wagner Love, looped home the header into the empty net.

However, there was still time for Pomazan to redeem himself as he made a brilliant save in the final seconds from Pontus Wernbloom That preserved a first point of the season for FC Ural.

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