UEFA European Championship Qualifying

FT Friday, March 27, 2015
Sweden WDLWL 2
–
Moldova LLLDL 0
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MDA000
Republican Stadium · 10,500 att.

Match Report

Zlatan Ibrahimovic sees Sweden to win away to Moldova

Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored two contrasting goals as Sweden earned an ultimately comfortable 2-0 World Cup qualifying win over Moldova.

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Team Stats

8
Fouls
12
3
Yellow Cards
4
1
Red Cards
0
1
Offsides
2
5
Corner Kicks
3
1
Saves
3
50
Possession
50
13
SHOTS
2
5
ON GOAL
1
0.4
On Target %
0.5
1
Penalty Goals
0
1
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
0
Accurate Passes
0
0
Passes
0
0.0
Pass Completion %
0.0
3
Accurate Crosses
0
7
Crosses
2
0.4
Cross %
0.0
0
Long Balls
0
0
Accurate Long Balls
0
0.0
Long Balls %
0.0
0
Blocked Shots
1
0
Effective Tackles
0
0
Tackles
0
0.0
Tackle %
0.0
0
Interceptions
0
0
Effective Clearances
0
3
Clearances
3

Head to Head

SWE leads series 3-0

Lineups

MDA

  1. 1Ilie CebanuG
  2. 2Igor ArmasD
  3. 3Alexandru EpureanuD
  4. 4Victor GolovatencoD
  5. 5Petru RacuD
  6. 6Vadim BolohanD
  7. 7Artur IonitaM
  8. 8Alexandru GatcanM
  9. 9Gheorghe AndronicM
  10. 10Alexandru DedovM
  11. 11Gheorghe BoghiuF

SWE

  1. 1Andreas IsakssonG
  2. 2Pierre BengtssonD
  3. 4Andreas GranqvistD
  4. 5Martin OlssonD
  5. 15Erik JohanssonM
  6. 7Sebastian LarssonM
  7. 8Albin EkdalM
  8. 9Kim KällströmM
  9. 22Erkan ZenginM
  10. 10Zlatan IbrahimovicF
  11. 21Isaac Kiese ThelinF

Timeline

  1. 5' Andreas Granqvist is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  2. 28' Victor Golovatenco is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  3. 36' Moldova makes a sub: Andrei Cojocari enters for Artur Ionita. Reason: Injury
  4. 45' Petru Racu is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  5. 46' Goal!! Zlatan Ibrahimovic hits a very good header low through the middle from the centre penalty area (aprox. 12 yards) and scores!! Sweden now leads 1 - 0
  6. 55' Martin Olsson is awarded a yellow card. Reason: dissent
  7. 65' Zlatan Ibrahimovic is awarded a yellow card. Reason: dissent
  8. 69' Sweden makes a sub: Marcus Berg enters for Isaac Kiese Thelin. Reason: Tactical
  9. 70' Moldova makes a sub: Viorel Frunza enters for Gheorghe Andronic. Reason: Tactical
  10. 81' Sweden makes a sub: Emil Forsberg enters for Sebastian Larsson. Reason: Tactical
  11. 85' Zlatan Ibrahimovic places the penalty kick with his right foot to the lower right corner and scores!! The goalkeeper was nowhere near the shot.
  12. 86' Moldova makes a sub: Serghei Gheorghiev enters for Gheorghe Boghiu. Reason: Tactical
  13. 86' Sweden makes a sub: Pontus Wernbloom enters for Erkan Zengin. Reason: Tactical
  14. 88' Serghei Gheorghiev is awarded a yellow card. Reason: unsporting behaviour
  15. 90' End of the game
  16. 90'+3' Andreas Granqvist has been shown the red card and will no longer take part of this game! Reason: second bookable offence
  17. 90'+4' Alexandru Gatcan is awarded a yellow card. Reason: dissent

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