Moldova v Liechtenstein background
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Liechtenstein will look to do better than past Under-17 sides as the senior team visit Moldova for the first time ever in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group G.
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Moldova and Liechtenstein are coming together for their maiden senior international in UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying Group G, with the visitors eager to avoid the fate that befell their Under-17 sides in past encounters.
Match background
• The sides are meeting for the first time in a senior international game.
• The nations have met in two UEFA age-group tournaments. Moldova's Under-17s comfortably beat their Liechtensteiner counterparts 7-0 in a first qualifying round mini-tournament in Greece on 9 October 2002, but when the teams met again in a UEFA European Under-17 Championship match in Poland on 20 September 2005 it was much closer, Moldova winning 4-2.
• The only encounter between the nations' clubs in UEFA competition ended in victory for the side from Liechtenstein; FC Vaduz beat FC Dacia Chisinau 2-0 at home in the first leg of a 2005/06 UEFA Cup first qualifying round tie, progressing despite a 1-0 loss in the return fixture.
