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Crowd trouble mars Rubin's Russian Cup win

Hundreds of fans from both teams ran on to the pitch at the end of the match.

The ugly scenes, broadcast live on television, will not do Yekaterinburg any favours as the Ural city is bidding to host matches at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

According to local media reports, there was also a scuffle between Dynamo's Australian midfielder Luke Wilkshire and two Rubin players, Finland midfielder Eremenko and Spanish defender Sezar Navas, in the tunnel after the game.

"We really wanted to win this to complete our set of [domestic] trophies," coach Kurban Berdyev told Russian television.