Goals and Highlights: Maldives 0-4 Uzbekistan in Asian Cup Qualifiers 2022

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The game ends with a 0-4 victory for Uzbekistan.

Three minutes are added.

Uzbekistan continues to press for one more goal.

Goooooooooool for Uzbekistan! Urunov increases the lead with a great shot.

Goooooooool for Uzbekistan! Shomurodov scored his third of the match and sealed the game.

Masharipov is replaced by Munrov.

Goooooooool for Uzbekistan! Shomurodov scores the second of the night.

The second half begins.

End of the first half.

The referee adds 1 minute.

Another shot from Uzbekistan into the goalkeeper's hands.

Free kick for Uzbekistan that does not generate danger.

Dangerous chance for Uzbekistan but the goalkeeper saves.

Xamrobekov receives a yellow card.

Foul in midfield in favor of Maldives.

Uzbekistan holds the position and dominates the game. 

Goooooooool for Uzbekistan! Shomurodov gives his team the lead.

Start the game.

This is how the group's dates were set:

📋 Osiyo kubogi saralash bosqichining Oʻzbekiston milliy terma jamoasi oʻrin olgan “C” guruhi taqvimi bilan tanishing.@afcasiancup @FAThailand @MaldivesFA @OfficialFFSL pic.twitter.com/4nS9RPP317

— O‘zbekiston FA (@UzbekistanFA) February 24, 2022

World No. 156 Maldives will face Uzbekistan, 73 places above them, with one of the best attacking duos in Eldor Shomurodov and Jaloliddin Masharipov.

According to an ancient tradition, traveling family members must take a small bite of Uzbek bread. The rest of the bread is buried or hidden until the traveler returns.

This was the last result from the Maldives:

Full time! 🔴#AFCAsianCup2023qualifiers #AsianCup2023 pic.twitter.com/y0NptTJlHB

— Maldives National Team (@maldives_team) June 8, 2022

Uzbekistan is one of the five countries that make up the Central Asian region, along with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. From the end of the 19th century until 1991, they were formerly part of the Tsarist Empire and then of the Soviet Union.

Maldives is the lowest country in the world with an average of 1.5 meters above sea level. About 80% of the island is below one meter above sea level.

The game will be played at the Markaziy Stadium, inaugurated in 2006, is a multi-purpose stadium that hosted its first game until 2008, has a capacity of 17,750 spectators and was designed by architect Nasaf Qarshi.

Thank you for following the Maldives vs Uzbekistan 2022 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers, today we will see an entertaining game in search of the qualification to the Asian Conference Cup.

In a few moments we will share with you the starting rosters of the Maldives vs Uzbekistan live, as well as the latest information from the Markaziy Stadium. Don't miss any detail of the match with VAVEL's online minute-by-minute coverage. 

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Igor Sergeev, an experienced 29 year old striker, currently plays for Tobol Kostanay where in 12 games he has scored 6 goals, in his national team he has accumulated 62 games in which he has scored 19 goals, he is undoubtedly one of the best players in Uzbekistan.

Ali Fasir, a 33-year-old right winger from Club Valencia, is one of the most important offensive players of this national team. In 52 appearances he has managed to score 9 goals, which makes him a key player for his national team.

Abdullayev, Shukurov, Shomurodov, Sayfiev, Marashipov, Amonov, Hamrobekov, Yusupov, Alidjanov, Khamdamov, Ahusrmatov.

Hassan, Samooh, Nihan, Yoosuf, Umair, Faisal, Mohamed, Ghanee, Mahudhee, Ibrahim, Hassan.

Thailand 3-0 Maldives
Maldives 2-0 Bangladesh
Maldives 0-0 Seychelles
Bangladesh 2-1 Maldives
Sri Lanka 4-4 Maldives

Uzbekistan 3-0 Sri Lanka
Uzbekistan 4-2 Uganda
Uzbekistan 3-1 Kyrgyzstan
Uzbekistan 3-0 South Sudan
Georgia 1-0 Uzbekistan

To be confirmed.

The Uzbekistan national team is looking for the qualification to the Asian Cup, this team has already managed to play in the Asian Cup doing a good role in 2019 when they got the second place with six points, for the qualifiers for Qatar 2022, this team was left out despite having given a good qualifying round being in second place with 15 points only 5 points behind the leader, It is well known that in this zone there is a lot of competition and leaving points on the way can make the difference between transcending at international level or staying stagnant, now in this new qualifying round for the Asian Cup, Uzbekistan already got its first win against Sri Lanka and hopes to get the second win to be able to place as leader of the group.

The national team of Maldives is again hoping to have a better qualifying round, this small team in recent years has not been able to become a benchmark in the area and has remained as one more team, for the qualifying round of Russia 2018 this team was eliminated in the second round by scoring only six points that left them in fourth place in their group, For the Qatar 2022 qualifiers this team could not improve, being again in the second round in the fourth position with seven points, its passage through the Asian Cup qualifiers has not been very different since in the previous edition with six points they were out, now in this new edition Maldives already played a match against Thailand which they defeated 3-0, it seems that the qualifiers will not be easy and Maldives will have to react soon or they will repeat their past.

Maldives and Uzbekistan will face each other in what promises to be an extraordinary duel, the AFC Asian Cup qualifiers will be hotly contested and the teams know that they cannot afford to drop points as it could cost them their qualification, that is why the teams will show their best footballing attributes and start to get on track for that qualification.

Good afternoon to all VAVEL readers! Welcome to the Maldives vs Uzbekistan commentary of the AFC Asian Cup Qualifying match. The match will take place at the Markaziy Stadium at 11:30 AM ET kick-off.