Month: September 2009

Scotland manager George Burley has called up Cardiff midfielder Gavin Rae and West Brom striker Graham Dorrans to the squad for the crucial World Cup qualifier against the Netherlands at Hampden Park on Wednesday night.

Rae’s last appearance for Scotland was against Iceland in April this year. Dorrans have 5 U-21 appearances to his name, but has never played for the senior squad.

Burley made the call ups after Scott Brown limped out of the Macedonia game with a hamstring. Influential forward James McFadden is suspended for the Holland game.

Ukraine crushed minnows Andorra 5-0 in a World Cup qualifier in Kiev on Saturday to keep their hopes of qualifying alive. With the result, Ukraine now have 14 points from 7 games, while second placed Croatia have 17 points from 8 games.

Andriy Yarmolenko gave the Ukraine the lead on 9 minutes, and it was doubled by Artem Milevskiy just before half time. Andriy Shevchenko scored the third from the spot on 72 minutes, and the Andorrans gave away two other penalties in second half injury time, which were converted by Milevskiy and Yevhen Seleznyov respectively.

Final score :-

Ukraine 5-0 Andorra ( Andriy Yarmolenko 9′, Artem Milevskiy 45+2′, Andriy Shevchenko 72′ pen, Artem Milevskiy 90+1′ pen, Yevhen Seleznyov 90+5′ pen)