England fans riot at Old Port in Marseille

This means that England have to beat their neighbours Wales in the coming match to secure first place in group B.

Vast swathes of England fans filling most of the 67,000 Stade Velodrome seats were acclaiming the win only for captain Berezutski to leap above Danny Rose and loop a header beyond Joe Hart that substitute Glushakov touched, seemingly over the line, although organisers UEFA awarded the skipper the goal.

Russian Federation again came close through Fyodor Smolov in the 63rd minute as the number 10 just missed the post with a long-range effort, before England enjoyed another strong spell in the final third of the field.

England fans have been embroiled in fresh clashes with police and rival supporters in Marseille on the day the team played its first Euro 2016 game.

Tear gas was repeatedly used to move fans on from bars on Friday and riot police were met with showers of bottles when they marched towards groups of England fans.

Meanwhile, England coach Roy Hodgson urged fans to “avoid any troubles lurking around the corner”.

Europe’s football organisation UEFA said on Saturday it “firmly condemns” the street battles.

Vasily Berezutsky scored Russia’s equalizer in the second minute of injury time, canceling out Eric Dier’s goal from a free kick in the 73rd.

Yet England got their break on 73 minutes, when a free-kick from just outside the area was left for Tottenham Hotspur’s 22-year-old midfielder Eric Dier to step up and smash home with a superb strike to give his side the lead.

“We got one up and conceded late on so of course we’re disappointed but there’s a lot of positives to take”. “Our emotions went from a high to a low pretty quickly”.

England failed to finish a flurry of chances in a dominant first-half performance and struggled a bit until Dier stepped up to score the victor in the Group B match.

Sky’s Sports Correspondent Paul Kelso said a gang of what appeared to be Russian supporters stormed into the old port area of the city, looking for English fans to attack in the hours before kick-off.

Al Jazeera footage of one incident shows a man smashing a chair against another man, who then fell off a concrete flight of steps.

Some fans walked through the city bare-chested and with blood dripping from head wounds.

The trouble that raged all day had largely died down by the time the match started, but reignited just as it finished.

Fans of Russian clubs Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg were “active” in the fighting, he added, but would not comment on whether a group of Russian fans had attacked English supporters.

Broken glass and debris littered some roads and walkways near the Queen Victoria pub, focal point of clashes between English, Russian and French fans on Thursday and Friday.

October 1977 — England fans cause major damage to the stadium at a World Cup qualifying game in Luxembourg.

During the match, flares were also fired from a section seating Russian fans.

Two nights of violence preceded Saturday’s outburst, which reports said were sparked from Russians supporters.

“It was a good performance, but a good performance is a win in tournament football”.