Belarus rout sorry Swiss

Belarus 4 Switzerland 1

Dead-ball strike
Belarus opened the scoring when Tsimafei Kalachou converted a free-kick which goalkeeper Marco Wölfli could have saved after eleven minutes. Within another eight minutes, the lead had been tripled.

Menacing Hleb
Grasshopper-Club defender Luca Denicola was the Swiss villain, first conceding a penalty that Vjacheslav Hleb dispatched with confidence and then failing to tackle Hleb, who scored up the third. Hleb, whose older brother Alexander plays for VfB Stuttgart, was a constant menace to the Swiss defence.

Game over
The fans in Minsk celebrated when Aleksei Baga put Belarus four goals to the good after just 26 minutes. With the game effectively over, the Belarus management took the opportunity to experiment with the squad and in the second half, nine substitutes were introduced.

Swiss consolation
So many changes helped the Switzerland team, who scored a consolation goal from the spot through Patrick Baumann with ten minutes left to play. Swiss coach Bernard Challandes was watching the game from the stands in preparation for his touchline ban at the Under-21 tournament in Germany this summer.