World Cup Qualifying
VS 
Uzbekistan vs Singapore
Saturday, June 7,
2008
Channel 5 :
10:00pm -
(live)
Where is Uzbekistan ?
SINGAPORE, June 2 (Reuters) - Uzbekistan sustained their
100 per cent World Cup qualifying record on Monday after they
outclassed error-prone Singapore in a remarkable 7-3
victory.
Uzbekistan remain top of Asian qualifying group 4 with nine
points, leaving Southeast Asian champions Singapore with just three
points after their three matches. 'We don't have plans for scoring
more goals than in this game,' Uzbek coach Rauf Inileyev told
reporters when asked about the sides' next meeting in Tashkent on
Saturday.
The Central Asian team went ahead after 10 minutes when Timur
Kapadze slotted home a neat cross before Bosnian-born striker
Aleksandar Duric replied quickly for the home side. Uzbekistan
retook the lead thanks to Victor Karpenko only for Singapore to
draw level again through a Mustafic Fahrudin penalty.
The in-form Uzbeks silenced the home crowd when Server Djeparov
made it 3-2 and further strikes from Vitaliy Denisov and Djeparov
once more gave them a three goal halftime advantage. Substitute
Aziz Ibragimov scored the sixth after the break while John
Wilkinson grabbed a consolation goal for the hosts. Dynamo Kiev's
Maksim Shatskikh rounded off the victory, neatly chipping over
Singapore goalkeeper Lionel Lewis.
'If anybody had told me before the game we would score three
goals against Uzbekistan, I would be very happy but today the
defence looked like it didn't exist,' Singapore coach Radojko
Avramovic told reporters. 'We couldn't cope... We must improve our
team. This game showed us a lot we didn't know.'
Other matches...
China v Qatar
Oman v
Japan
Korea DPR v
Turkmenistan
Lebanon v
Saudi
Arabia
Jordan v
South
Korea
United Arab
Emirates v Iran
Iraq v
Australia
Bahrain v
Thailand
