Live Match Update - Q U23's v Chinese Taipei
FINAL SCORE: Australia 11 - Chinese Taipei 0
Australia travels to Chinese Taipei for the second leg next Wednesday with a massive 11 goal advantage, Australia obviously holding the upper hand in the two-legged fixture, whose winner progresses to the next (group) stage of the 2008 Olympic games qualifying campaign. signing off from Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide.
92' the referee calls a halt to proceedings as the Australian national under 23 teams just fails to reach its record score in all-internationals (12-0 v Vanuatu, 1996), Australia cruising to an 11-0 victory in Rob Baan's first match as Australian coach
90' GOAL AUSTRALIA! its all too easy for the green and goal as Vidosic makes it eleven. Australia 11-0
89' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Dilevski sends a pin-point cross to Sarkies, who gets his fourth goal. Australia 10-0
84' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Sarkies completes his hat-trick after first laying the ball off to Djite, then retrieving it to fire home. Australia 9-0
81' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Cornthwaite, free on the left post, gets the ball directly from a corner to slot it in for his first goal. Australia 8-0
78' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Australia's ninth corner finds its way to Cornthwaite, who blasts into the danger zone, with Topor-Stanley there to notch his second for the game. Australia 7-0
76' Australia relentless in attack, with Djite and then Williams getting shots on goal in the past minute
73' substitute Chinese Taipei: Huang off, Y-T Chen on
72' substitute Australia: Leijer off, Cornthwaite on
68' Chinese Taipei with its best chance of the game: a nice diagonal cross from Chen is met by Huang, whose firm header from 5m makes Vukovic stretch to his left for a neat save
66' Williams gets the ball in the net but is ruled off-side
64' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Sarkies from a free kick 25m out strikes sweetly directly into goal. Australia 6-0
63' substitute Australia: Burns off, Vidosic on
62' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Topor-Stanley ends a nice passage of play started by Dilevski, and again it is involving Djite who assists. Australia 5-0
60' yellow card Chinese Taipei: Tsai
59' Australia gets its seventh corner, from which Williams gets another shot in - the low strike safely scooped up by Lu
58' Broxham - to Williams - shot - just over
55' sub Chinese Taipei: Yu off, C-H Wu on
48' GOAL AUSTRALIA! a delightful shot from Djite, from the corner of the penalty box, goes past the outstretched hands of Lu. Australia 4-0
46' second-half gets underway with Chinese Taipei managing a rare series of passes in Australia's defensive half
half-time substitute for Australia: Broxham on, Musialik off
46'+ referee Nishimura blows the whistle for half-time, with Australia up 3-0
45' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Chinese Taipei keeper Lu cannot handle a fierce shot from Djite, the ball bouncing back to Sarkies who makes no mistake. Australia 3-0
44' Musialik looks to be hobbling a little, would be no surprise to see him off at half time as a precautionary measure
43' corner number four for Australia... cleared by Huang
40' the Aussie assault is briefly halted as Chinese Taipei makes a rare foray into their attacking half
35' the Burns-Djite combination almost makes it 3-0, Djite blasting which smashes off the left post
32' captain Milligan concedes a free 30m out in front of goal... Hseih gets a half-decent low shot in and through the wall but Vukovic stops it no worries
29' Vukovic handles the ball for the first time...
28' Williams crosses to Burns who heads well - but it's another shot which goes just to the left of goal
27' ...Huang's shot goes well over Vukovic's goal
25' Leijer concedes a free kick just outside the penalty box, after bringing down Chang... CT lining up for a shot...
22' Williams weaves a mazy run in the penalty box through the Chinese Taipei defence, almost resulting in a goal... Australia toying with the opposition
19' third corner for Australia, again not cleared by the visitors... Djite eventually gets has shot which goes agonisingly wide
18' despite the early dominance, Australia not really looking like they're out of second gear
15' good cut-out and defensive clearance from Chiang denies Australia another opportunity
13' Williams has a shot from the corner of the penalty box which goes just wide
10' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Djite lays a good through ball to his Adelaide United teammate Burns who, with acres of space, blasts home the second goal of the game from directly in front. 2-0 Australia
7' GOAL AUSTRALIA! Milligan hits true following a short goalmouth scramble which ensued from another Sarkies corner. 1-0 Australia
6' corner Australia - ineffective
5' Australia not having everything their own way as many expected, however there has been a couple of half-chances already for the Aussies
1' an early caution (8 seconds in!): Australia's Topor-Stanley receives a yellow for a crude challenge
Australia kicks-off ------------------------------------------------------ Qantas Under 23's v Chinese Taipei Qualifying Round 1 - 1st Leg Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide Kick-off - 7.00pm (ACDT), 7.30pm (AEDT)
Australian line-up: Danny Vukovic (gk); Ruben Zadkovich, Mark Milligan, Adrian Leijer, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Stuart Musialik, Kristian Sarkies, Spase Dilevski, Nathan Burns, Bruce Djite, David Williams
Subs from: Leigh Broxham, Robert Cornthwaite, Adam D'Apuzzo, Ben Griffin, Ben Kennedy, Vince Lia, Dario Vidosic
Chinese Taipei line-up: Kun-Chi Lu (gk); Sheng-An Tsai, Chih-Hung Yu, Cheng-Tsung Huang, Yu-Lin Chen, Meng-Hsuan Hsieh, Han Chang, Wei-Yi Huang, Yi-Wei Hsu, Kai-Chun Hung
Subs from: Chih-Chang Hsu (gk), Cheng-Hsien Wu, Ming-Han Chiang, Chih-Chi Hung, Hsiang-Yu Hsu
Match officials: Yuichi Nishimura (ref); Hiroshi Tezuka, Yoshikazu Hiroshima (asst refs) - Japan
Conditions: fine