Portugal beats 1-0 (2-0 on aggregate) Bosnia-Herzegovina to advance to 2010 World Cup Finals – Recap and Video Highlights

The UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying Playoffs had their second legs on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. One of the match-ups was Portugal v Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Portugal led 1-0 after the first leg. Who was able to win and advance to South Africa next summer? Here’s a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Portugal beats Bosnia-Herzegovina 1-0 (2-0 on aggregate) – Video Highlights

Portugal and Bosnia played a close and low scoring match on Wednesday. Unfortunately for the home side, Bosnia, they couldn’t score in the second leg and would lose 0-1 in the match. Portugal didn’t dominate either match but they held Bosnia scoreless and now advances to the World Cup Finals in South Africa.

The goal in the match came in the second half by Raul Meireles in the 56th minute. It was more than enough as they now had a 2-0 aggregate lead and an away goal.

BIH

POR

• 1 Kenan HASAGIC (GK)
• 3 Boris PANDZA
• 5 Zlatan BAJRAMOVIC (-83′ )
• 6 Sanel JAHIC
• 7 Haris MEDUNJANIN  (-45′+1 )
• 10 Senijad IBRICIC
• 11 Edin DZEKO (C) 
• 13 Safet NADAREVIC
• 14 Vedad IBISEVIC
• 15 Sejad SALIHOVIC
• 18 Miralem PJANIC

• (GK) EDUARDO 1
• BRUNO ALVES 2
• PAULO FERREIRA 3
• DUDA 5
• RICARDO CARVALHO 6
• TIAGO 8
• (-90′+1)  LIEDSON 9
• (-80′)  (C) SIMAO 11
• PEPE 15
• RAUL MEIRELES 16
• (-73′)  NANI 17

Substitute(s)

• 2 Dzemal BERBEROVIC (+83′)
• 4 Damir MIRVIC
• 8 Dario DAMJANOVIC
• 9 Zlatan MUSLIMOVIC (+45′+1)
• 12 Asmir BEGOVIC
• 16 Adnan MRAVAC
• 17 Ninoslav MILENKOVIC

• ROLANDO 4
• (+90′+1)  MIGUEL VELOSO 7
• (+80′)  DECO 10
• HILÁRIO 12
• MIGUEL 13
• (+73′)  EDINHO 14
• HUGO ALMEIDA 18

Coaches

Miroslav BLAZEVIC (BIH)

(POR) Carlos QUEIROZ

Officials

• Referee: Roberto ROSETTI (ITA)
• Assistant Referee 1: Paolo CALCAGNO (ITA)
• Assistant Referee 2: Stefano AYROLDI (ITA)
• Fourth official: Nicola RIZZOLI (ITA)

Cards

6 Sanel JAHIC (25′) 13 Safet NADAREVIC (37′) 11 Edin DZEKO (58′) 15 Sejad SALIHOVIC (77′) 15 Sejad SALIHOVIC (77′) 2 Dzemal BERBEROVIC (90′+2)	(27′) SIMAO 11

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