04 June, 2007

Kazakhstan 1-2 Armenia

...But I still believe, NOT! After their famous win over Serbia, Kazakhstan was expected to hammer fellow qualifying strugglers.Nevertheless, Kazakhstan found themselves easily 0-2 down still in the 1st half, as a result of a free-kick and a dubious penalty, despite dominating the early stages of the game and hitting the woodwork.
The Kazakhs mostly relied on their tall centre backs to endanger the Armenian goal through set pieces, instead of technical skills...
In the dying minutes of the 2nd half Kazakhstan still managed to get 1 back, through yet another dubious penalty.
All of a sudden the home crowd got behind their players and even the Kazakh goalkeeper played as a striker during injury time, but it all proved to be insufficient, leaving the celebrations for the couple of dozens of traveling Armenian supporters...