The result ended a run of five successive draws and left them on 11 points, two behind Ireland, who they will play in their final qualifier in Cardiff, and four off leaders Serbia. “The second to last lap was OK at the beginning, but then I backed out of it, hoping that I’d get one more lap,” said the 32-year-old. “Good performance in the wet is one of those things that’s very difficult to test or dev. GROUP CMarc Wilmots led Ivory Coast to a 3-0 win in Gabon in his first competitive match in charge. There are 12 players from the junior squad in the main team. green iron fence — it felt like the conversation between the out-of-favour opener and the head coach, which started in English before moving to Marathi, involved batting technique and feet movement. Getting a big-name foreign coach and sacking him after a few poor results would prompt others to think twice about coming to India and would be akin to papering over the cracks. Normally you have a process, and if you have that in place results will come. ferent tournament entirely one where he was involved in a match under scrutiny from anti-corruption investigators because of unusual betting. ’Andriy Yarmolenko celebrated his 70th international appearance with two first-half goals to move Uk.