Azkals vs. Chinese Taipei Live Scores, Coverage and Results (Oct. 10, 2013)

The Philippine Azkals will face the Chinese Taipei national football team in the opening of the Philippine Peace Cup hosted by the City of Bacolod in Negros Occidental. We will be having our live coverage of the game by providing you the live scores, highlights and results.

Here’s our live coverage of the Azkals vs. Chinese Taipei match:

Fulltime: Chinese Taipei 2 – 1 Philippines

4 mins added time. still 2-1 Chinese Taipei

Mark Hartmann replaces Jerry Barbaso with 4 minutes left in regulation
10 minutes left in the match and Azkals are still down, 1-2
78′ Misagh Bahadoran replaces goalscorer James YH
Goal Chinese Taipei! Azkals now down, 1-2 at around 65′
Caligdong enters the game for Angel Guirado. Still 1-1 almost midway the second half.

Chinese Taipei 1 – 1 Philippines
Goals from Li Mao (14′) and James Younghusband (45+3′)
James with the equalizer! It’s now 1-1 just before halftime!
Reichelt replaces Porteria on the pitch, 35′

30th minute mark still 1-0 in favor of Chinese Taipei

22nd minute still 1-0 in favor of Chinese Taipei
GOAL Chinese Taipei! Goal coming from Li Mao as he chipped it over Etheridge for the opening goal.
Hopefully the match tonight will not be hampered by rains, some parts of Bacolod City is slightly raining already.
Thirteen minutes gone in the match and it’s still 0-0 between the two sides with chances from Angel Guirado and Stephan Schrock coming close.
Phil Younghusband has a calf injury while Paul Mulders has a groin injury, both players will not suit up for the Philippine Azkals on tonight’s game at Panaad.

Chinese Taipei Starting XI:

Pan Wei Chih, Lee, Chen Ting-Yang, Wen, Huang, Lin, Li, Chen Yi-Wei, Hsieh, Kuo, Chen Po-Liang

Starting 11 v Chinese Taipei by Azkals:

GK: Neil Etheridge
DF: Jerry Barbaso, Rob Gier, Juan Guirado, Jeffrey Christiaens
MF: James Younghusband, Jerry Lucena, Chris Greatwich, Stephan Schrock
FW: OJ Porteria, Phil Younghusband

The match will feature three international teams including the Philippines, Chinese Taipei and the national football team of Pakistan. The first game of the Philippine Peace Cup will kick off at around 7:00 PM live from Panaad Park and Stadium in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.

The Philippine Azkals is the defending champion of the competition after its inaugural season held at the Rizal Memorial Stadium last year. The Philippines will try to make a repeat against last year’s runner-up, the Chinese Taipei national squad who are currently in Bacolod City for the tournament.

According to Coach Hans Michael Weiss, the Philippines will field one of their strongest team (–foul word(s) removed–)embled due to the presence of Europe-based players such as Stephan Schrock, Neil Etheridge, Jerry Lucena, Rob Gier who are given the clearance by their respective European teams.