St. Petersburg - Russia remains the toughest competitor of the DFB-Elf in World Cup qualification Group 4! The team of coach Guus Hiddink brought in St. Petersburg a 3-0 (3-0)-expected win against Liechtenstein and dwarf football ranks, now with 18 points in the second place - with just one point behind Germany.
Vasily Beresutski (17) and Roman Pavlyuchenko were transformed with two penalties (40./45.) Scored the goals for Russia, which called for seriously any stage.
In another match in group 4 missed the team coached by Berti Vogts from the Azerbaijan 1:2 (0:0) against Finland's first experience of success in the World Cup elimination. Elvin Mammadov gave the kicker from the Caspian Sea in the 49th Minutes while a 1-0 lead, but Markus Heikkinen (74) and the Bremen Bundesliga player Petri Pasanen (85) fürVogts and Co. made the hope to destroy the first three.
With the victory, was happy the table Third Finland (13Punkte) its theoretical chance of qualifying.
After today's match the hot final phase of World Cup qualification began final: Russia must start next Wednesday in Wales, while the German team played in Hanover against Azerbaijan. The summit meeting between the two top favorites, it comes on 10 October in Moscow.
