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Qualifiers - Group F: Mongolia 1-4 Yemen
Bishkek: Yemen opened their AFC U17 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2027™ Qualifiers Group F campaign with a comfortable 4-1 win over Mongolia on Wednesday. 
Northern Mariana Islands will take on Kyrgyz Republic in the later match on Wednesday.

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Mongolia 1-4 Yemen
Mongolia ran into trouble in the 15th minute when Khanbileg Sainbileg handled the ball in the area, with Sadeq Ali Aziz converting his spot-kick by sending keeper Enkhmanlai Ankhbayar the wrong way as he side-stepped the ball to the right. 

Ali Farea then sent a superb through ball in the 31st minute to Aziz, who found space in the centre but was flagged offside after he hit the left post with his first-time effort.
Ankhbayar pulled off a save from Aziz’s low drive from the right in the 39th minute, the striker then finding the net a minute before the break only for teammate Elyas Al-Hemyari to be caught offside. 

Farea finally put Yemen on the right track four minutes into the second half when he rifled his shot from inside the area past a sea of bodies and into the bottom left corner of the net. 
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Sainbileg, whose handball gifted Yemen their first goal, then compounded a bad day out when he turned in Farea’s cross from the left into his own net in the 61st minute.  

Mongolia pulled one back in the 75th minute through Bold-Erdene Bat-Ochir, who, seeing keeper Ebrahim Al-Sanhani off his line, clipped the ball in from 20 yards after some good work on the right by Ugedei Byambajargal.

Aziz, however, sealed the match a minute before regulation time when he picked up Ankhbayar’s save from Ahmed Al-Yahri’s close-range strike and headed into an empty net.