Match Report
4 points and 23 places separated them: Lithuania 2nd with 4, New Zealand 25th with 0. New Zealand ranked just 149th in the league on five-round form despite their 25th table position. Per game in the league, Lithuania were scoring 0.5 and conceding 0, New Zealand 0 and 1, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Lithuania entered with four losses in a row. Lithuania had banked 1 of the last 15 points on offer; New Zealand, 9.
The venue was Vilniaus LFF stadionas in Vilnius, with room for 5,422 spectators. On the scoreboard, Lithuania led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.