Coach Ion Caras announced the final lineup of 23 players for the match against San Marino of the 2014 World Cup preliminaries. Alexandru Epureanu wasn’t included in it as he didn’t recover after suffering an injury in the Europa League fixture between Anji and Sheriff, IPN reports.

One of the top scorers of the championship of Kazakhstan Igor Bugaiov is also not in the lineup. Ion Caras preferred Viorel Frunza from Veris. “The team of Bugaiov now plays in the second group in Kazakhstan for the 7th-12th places. Surely he can easier score there. Here, after 11 games played, Frunza scored eight goals. This is an index,” Caras said in a news conference.

On October 11, Moldova plays San-Marino at Zimbru Stadium, starting at 7pm. Next week Moldova faces Montenegro in its last qualifier abroad.

England leads in the group with 16 points, followed by Ukraine and Montenegro with 15 points each. Poland comes fourth with 13 points. Moldova is the fifth with only five points.