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ARMENIA EASE TO WIN OVER MINNOWS ANDORRA
Irish Examiner
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/armenia-ease-to-win-over-minnows-andorra-519010.html
Sept 2 2011
Andorra 0 Armenia 3
Armenia picked up their third win in Euro 2012 qualifying after easing
past Group B's bottom side Andorra.
Marcos Pizzelli gave the visitors the lead 10 minutes before half-time
at the Estadi Comunal in Andorra la Vella and Gevorg Ghazaryan doubled
their advantage in the 57th minute.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan completed the scoring with a stoppage-time penalty
at the end of the game after Andorra defender Ildefons Lima was sent
off in conceding the spot-kick.
The result lifts fourth-placed Armenia onto 11 points but is not enough
to gain them any places in the standings, while Andorra remain rooted
to the foot of the table with no points from their seven games.
Armenia had already seen Ghazaryan fire an effort wide from the edge
of the area and an Artur Sarkisov shot tipped around the post by
Andorra goalkeeper Jose Antonio Gomez by the time they went ahead
through Pizzelli.
The Metalurg Donetsk forward found the top right-hand corner of the
net from outside the box to record his third goal in qualifying.
That was the only strike separating the sides at the break, but Armenia
started the second period looking determined to put further distance
between themselves and their hosts.
Sarkisov and Edgar Manucharyan both tried their luck from outside the
area without hitting the target before Pizzelli, in the 54th minute,
brought a brilliant parry out of Gomez.
Gomez then easily dealt with visiting captain Sargis Hovsepyan's
65th-minute shot before the home custodian produced another fine stop
to keep out Ghazaryan's drilled right-footer five minutes later.
Gomez could not continue keeping the Armenia attack at bay, though,
and the visitors doubled their advantage when Ghazaryan fired in from
close range.
Armenia added a third goal late on when Mkhitaryan slotted home
from the penalty spot after Lima had brought down Karlen Lazarian -
a foul that saw the Andorra skipper shown a straight red card.
Irish Examiner
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/armenia-ease-to-win-over-minnows-andorra-519010.html
Sept 2 2011
Andorra 0 Armenia 3
Armenia picked up their third win in Euro 2012 qualifying after easing
past Group B's bottom side Andorra.
Marcos Pizzelli gave the visitors the lead 10 minutes before half-time
at the Estadi Comunal in Andorra la Vella and Gevorg Ghazaryan doubled
their advantage in the 57th minute.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan completed the scoring with a stoppage-time penalty
at the end of the game after Andorra defender Ildefons Lima was sent
off in conceding the spot-kick.
The result lifts fourth-placed Armenia onto 11 points but is not enough
to gain them any places in the standings, while Andorra remain rooted
to the foot of the table with no points from their seven games.
Armenia had already seen Ghazaryan fire an effort wide from the edge
of the area and an Artur Sarkisov shot tipped around the post by
Andorra goalkeeper Jose Antonio Gomez by the time they went ahead
through Pizzelli.
The Metalurg Donetsk forward found the top right-hand corner of the
net from outside the box to record his third goal in qualifying.
That was the only strike separating the sides at the break, but Armenia
started the second period looking determined to put further distance
between themselves and their hosts.
Sarkisov and Edgar Manucharyan both tried their luck from outside the
area without hitting the target before Pizzelli, in the 54th minute,
brought a brilliant parry out of Gomez.
Gomez then easily dealt with visiting captain Sargis Hovsepyan's
65th-minute shot before the home custodian produced another fine stop
to keep out Ghazaryan's drilled right-footer five minutes later.
Gomez could not continue keeping the Armenia attack at bay, though,
and the visitors doubled their advantage when Ghazaryan fired in from
close range.
Armenia added a third goal late on when Mkhitaryan slotted home
from the penalty spot after Lima had brought down Karlen Lazarian -
a foul that saw the Andorra skipper shown a straight red card.