Azkals vs Sri Lanka Leg 2 video replay

Azkals vs Sri Lanka Leg 2 Results: 4-0

The Azkals scored not 2 or 3 but 4 goals during its home match vs a goal-less Sri Lanka held Sunday at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

It was the 2nd leg of the Azkals vs Sri Lanka was held 4 days after the 1st leg in Sri Lanka, which resulted to a draw (1-1).

Their aggregate scores were 5 for the Philippine Azkals and only 1 for Sri Lanka.
Watch a video replay of how the Azkals scored the 4 goals during its game vs Sri Lanka:

1st goal scored by Chieffy Caligdong at 18th minute


2nd goal by Phil Younghusband during the 42nd minute (with "gf" Angel Locsin being shown at the crowd cheering for Phil's 1st goal)


3rd goal made by Angel Aldeguer Guirado at 50th minute


4th goal by Phil Younghusband again at 56th min. (Angel is shown again after Phil scored his 2nd goal)

The Philippine Azkals will now face a tougher football team from Kuwait on July 23 and 28 for the 2nd Round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers.

Video uploads courtesy of tagailaya

Azkals vs Sri Lanka Live Updates

The Philippine Azkals faced Sri Lanka in its first qualifying playoff for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The Azkals (Philippines) vs Sri Lanka football match happened at the Colombo Sugathadasa Stadium with live coverage on Studio 23 which started at 5:20 PM and the game kicked off at 6:30PM.

LIVE SCORE UPDATE: Sri Lanka 1, Philippines 1
Sri Lanka's Chathura Gunarathna scores first goal 4 minutes before 2nd half of the game (41st minute)
Not giving his best performance, Phil Younghusband was replaced by Fil-Am Nate Burkey before halftime.
Burkey scored the first goal for the Philippine Azkals 4 minutes after the 2nd half (at 49th minute). He was later replaced by Ian Araneta.
Azkals' players who got 1 yellow card each were James Younghusband, Stephan Schrock and Aly Borromeo.
Sri Lanka also received 3 yellow cards. One each for Anton Nimal Fernando, Nadeeka Pushpakumara and Safraz Kaiz.
Game ends in a draw with 1 goal each for Sri Lanka and Philippines.

Here's the Philippine Azkals' line-up on today's match vs Sri Lanka:

Team Captain: Aly Borromeo
Goalkeeper: Neil Etheridge
Strikers: Phil Younghusband, Angel Aldeguer Guirado, Misagh Bahadoran, Ricardo Bicete
Midfielders: James Younghusband, Emilio "Chieffy" Caligdong, Manuel Ott, Jerry Lucena, Stephan Schrock, Nate Burkey
Defence: Aly Borromeo, Anton del Rosario, Rob Gier, Ray Jonsson, Roel Gener, Jason Sabio

The Azkals' starting 11 line-up included Etheridge, Borromeo, Gier, Phil and James Younghusband, Caligdong, Guirado, Mulders, Ott, Shrock and Del Rosario while Sabio, Bahadoran, Araneta and Burkey were subsitutes.

Other qualifying matches for Asian countries are also happening simultaneously with the Philippinez vs Sri Lanka June 29 match being held in different venues, such as Cambodia vs Laos, Nepal vs Timor-Leste, Afghanistan vs Palestine, Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Mongolia vs Myanmar, Vietnam vs Macau and Malaysia vs Taipei.

But the Philippines vs Sri Lanka playoff was predicted to end up as among the 3 most interesting from those 8 matches.

The 2nd leg of the Azkals vs Sri Lanka will be on July 3 to be held at the Rizal Memorial Football Field.

Azkals vs Sri Lanka, 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Match

The Azkals vs Sri Lanka Qualifying Match for the 2014 FIFA World Cup is happening on June 29 at the Sugathadasa Stadium, in Colombo, Sri Lanka and on July 3 at the Rizal Memorial Stadium here in the Philippines.

And thanks, Studio 23 will be airing the said Azkals vs Sri Lanka home-and-away games.

A teaser for the said qualifying match has been airing already starting today on Studio 23. Watch!
Whoever wins between the Philippine Azkals and Sri Lanka in their match will advance to the next round of the Qualification Stage and will face the football team from Kuwait on July 23 and 28. Can't wait!