Iran ease past Pakistan 5-0 in AFC U19 qfrs

Tehran: Qualifying Group C hosts comfortably booked their ticket to the 2012 AFC U-19 Championship on Sunday with a 5-0 hammering of Pakistan guaranteed them a top-two finished with one round of matches left to play.

Uzbekistan also made it three-out-of-three to secure their passage but they were made to work significantly harder than Iran with the Central Asians needing to come from a goal down in their hard-fought 2-1 victory over Turkmenistan.

Having already beaten India 3-0 and Turkmenistan 4-0, Iran had built up momentum going into Sunday’s match against a Pakistan that had lost their first three qualifiers.

And the Group C hosts needed just three minutes to open the scoring through Ahmad Eskandari before the Iranians went 3-0 with less than 20 minutes gone with Alireza Jirandeh adding the second with a 14th minute penalty and Behnam Barzay netting a third five minutes later.

Pakistan held out until just before the hour mark when Jirandeh scored his second of the game before Amir Reza Zare claimed Iran’s fifth and final goal with two minutes remaining.

In the earlier match at the Takhti Stadium substitute Jahongir Abdumuminov scored a late winner as Uzbekistan came from behind to defeat Turkmenistan 2-1 to assure themselves of a place in next year’s finals.

Orazberdi Myradov gave Turkmenistan the lead with five minutes of the first-half to play only for Abboshek Makhstaliev to cancel out the Turkmen midfielder’s opener three minutes after the interval.

With the hard-fought encounter heading towards a 1-1 draw forward Abdumuminov, who came on at the start of the second half as a replacement for midfielder Jamshid Iskanderov, struck in the 81st minute to give the Uzbeks the crucial victory.

Pakistan now face India in their last match on 8 November 2011 at Takhti Stadium with 1700 PST kick-off.

SOURCE: the-afc.com

Group C

Team GP W D L GF GA +/- Pts
I.R. IRAN 3 3 0 0 12 0 12 9
UZBEKISTAN 3 3 0 0 7 2 5 9
INDIA 3 1 0 2 4 6 -2 3
TURKMENISTAN 4 1 0 3 4 10 -6 3
PAKISTAN 3 0 0 3 1 10 -9 0

AFC U19 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 MATCH SUMMARY

Match
Date & Time
Duration
Stadium
Weather
Temp
Attendance
 63
 06-Nov-2011 06:30 PM
 90
 Takhti Stadium
 Very cold and some time was raining.
 10
 100
 I.R. IRAN

White
White
White
 5
 3
1st Half
 0
 0
 PAKISTAN

Green
Green
Green
 2
2nd Half
 0
Ext. Time
Penalty Kick
No. Position Name G Y R S No. Position Name G Y R S
START LIST
 2
 DF
 BAHADORI DAVOOD
 68
 3
 DF
 AMIR SIDDIQUE
 5
 DF
 MOHAMMADHOSSEIN KANANI ZADEGHAN
 4
 DF
 BABAR SHAHRAM
 6
 DF
 MOHAMMAD DANESHGAR
 6
 MF
 JUNAID QADIR
 7
 MF
 AMIN JAHAN KOHAN
 8
 MF
 SAAD ULLAH
 90
 9
 MF
 ALIREZA JAHAN BAKHSH JIRANDEH
 59,14(PK)
 70
 9
 FW
 BILAL MUHAMMAD
 75
 10
 FW
 BEHNAM BARZAY
 19
 11
 FW
 SADDAM HUSSAIN
 15
 DF
 MOHAMMADHOSSEIN HEIDARI
 15
 MF
 NAVEED AHMAD
 22
 GK
 ALI MOHSENZADEH
 19
 DF
 MOHSIN ALI
 26
 DF
 VAHID HEIDARIEH
 22
 GK
 SAQIB HANIF
 27
 MF
 AHMAD ABDOLLAHZADEH
 35
 23
 MF
 BILAWAL-UR-REHMAN
 28
 FW
 AHMAD ESKANDARI
 3
 60
 28
 FW
 MUHAMMAD SHER
SUBSTITUTES
 1
 GK
 MOHAMMADREZA GHODRATIPOUR
 1
 GK
 MUZAMMIL HUSSAIN
 3
 DF
 YOUSEF VAKIA
 5
 DF
 MOKHUM MOHAMMAD OSMAN
 75
 4
 DF
 ROOZBEH CHESHMI
 7
 DF
 MUHAMMAD RAFIQ
 11
 FW
 SARDAR AZMOUN
 10
 FW
 AMEER HAMZA
 90
 14
 MF
 AMIR REZA ZARE
 88
 60
 13
 MF
 WAHEED HAMEED
 16
 MF
 EHSAN PAHLAVAN
 14
 MF
 MUHAMMAD RIAZ
 20
 MF
 FARSHID ESMAEILI
 80
 35
 16
 MF
 NAEEM MUHAMMAD WASIF
 21
 FW
 ALI CHOOPANI DEHSORKHI
 29
 DF
 AMIR ANWAR
 25
 DF
 MOHAMMAD GHASEMI
 33
 GK
 MUMTAZ TANVEER
 29
 FW
 ALI ALIPOURGHARA
 70
 31
 MF
 FARSHID ALAVI
 33
 GK
 HOJJAT SEDGHI
NOT ELIGIBLE
NOT PLAYING
 2
 DF
 KHALID ADEEL
 12
 DF
 ARSHAD HASNIAN
 25
 MF
 BADAR QADIR
TEAM COACH TEAM MANAGER TEAM COACH TEAM MANAGER
AKBAR MOHAMMADI ARGI
 LOTFI HOSSEIN
 ANWAR SHAHZAD
 HABIB MOHAMMAD
DELEGATIONS
REFEREE
 ALI SABAH ADDAY AL-QAYSI (IRAQ)
Match Commissioner
 MANIRUL ISLAM (BANGLADESH)
ASSISTANT REFEREE 1
 PALLIYA GURUGE PRIYANGA NAMAL (SRI LANKA)
Referee Inspector
 LENNIE EDWARD MCGREGOR (AUSTRALIA)
ASSISTANT REFEREE 2
 LUAY SUBHI ADIB AL-AZAWI (IRAQ)
General Coordinator
4th Official
 ALI M H M T SHABAN (KUWAIT)
Media Officer

G = Goal, Y = Yellow Card, R = Red Card, S = Substitutes
PS = Penalty Shootout Made, PS- = Penalty Shootout Missed, PK = Penalty Kick, OG = Own Goal