Lithuania1 - 4 Czech Republic: Czechs build on perfect start to seal second

Sernas (pen) 68

Michal Kadlec (pen 2, pen 85), Rezek 16, 45

Michal Kadlec put the visitors ahead from the penalty spot within two minutes and Jan Rezek’s double had them three up at the break. The Czechs were reduced to 10 men midway through the second half when Roman Hubnik saw red for a professional foul, Darvydas Sernas converting the resulting penalty, but another Kadlec spot-kick five minutes from time sealed the win.

Lithuania conceded a penalty with less than a minute on the clock. Andrius Skerla earned a yellow card for a foul on Milan Baros and Kadlec unleashed a cool penalty high into the net.

The visitors did not have to wait long for their second goal. Baros was the provider, setting up Rezek to lash into the top-left corner in the 16th minute. Rezek, the player accused of diving to earn the Czechs a crucial late penalty in their 2-2 draw in Scotland last month, scored for the second time when he slid in to head home Jaroslav Plasil’s cross.

Hubnik was sent off in the 67th minute for bringing down Sernas in the area, the forward picking himself up to despatch the penalty past Cech, but the Czechs restored their three-goal cushion when Kadlec sent the third spot-kick of the night into the bottom-right corner after Ramunas Radavicius had fouled Tomas Pekhart.

Lithuania: Karcemarskas, Radavicius, Vicius, Skerla, Zaliukas, Sernas, Poskus (Panka 57), S Mikoliunas, Pilibaitis (R Beniusis 74), Ivaskevicius (Novikovas 46), Stankevicius.

Czech Republic: Cech, Gebreselassie, Kadlec, Hubnik, Sivok, Rezek (Pospech 82), Plasil, Pilar

(Pudil 70), Baros (Pekhart 59), Daniel Kolar, Jiracek.

Referee: DF Borbalan (Spa).