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Entertaining encounter
With the visitors defending in numbers, an entertaining game looked
unlikely in Yerevan, but there was to be plenty of goalmouth
action. Arman Karamyan tested Sergei Pareiko early on, but the Estonia
keeper fielded his shot from 16 metres, while Joel Lindpere hit the
post at the other end after a sharp counterattack before Henrikh
Mkhitaryan beat Pareiko with the aid of a deflection in the 31st minute.
Wednesday rematch
The keeper denied Mkhitaryan again not long afterwards before
Konstantin Vassiljev equalised, striking past Roman Berezovski from
Martin Vunk’s ball, and there was time for Aleksandr Dmitrijev to pass
up another chance for Estonia before the break. Armenia recovered
after half-time, but misses from Levon Pachayan and Karamyan preceded
substitute Sergei Zenjov putting Estonia ahead on 69 minutes as he
went one-on-one with Berezovski. Ghazaryan, however, had the last
word, with the two sides meeting again in Tallinn on Wednesday.