Uzbekistan have reached the quarter-finals of the Under-20 World Cup in Turkey with a 3-1 victory over Greece.

Abbosbek Makhstaliev opened the scoring for the Uzbeks when he was allowed plenty of time inside the area to smash the ball into the top corner.

Greece were level at the break thanks to Kostas Stafylidis's confident penalty on 33 minutes.

However, Uzbekistan took the lead again with a penalty of their own on the hour mark through Igor Sergeev after Dimitrios Kourmpelis was shown a second yellow card for hauling down Sardor Rakhmanov.

The win was sealed seven minutes from time when Rakhmanov converted what was a third penalty of the match.

Written by
Jack Prescott