Ukraine thrashed fellow World Cup qualifiers Costa Rica 4-0 in a friendly in Kiev on Sunday night.

Goals before the interval from Serhiy Nazarenko, Andriy Vorobey and Maxym Kalinichenko killed the match and then Oleksiy Belyk added another after the break for the team coached by Oleh Blokhin.

Nazarenko opened the scoring after 26 minutes from the rebound after Costa Rica goalkeeper Wardy Alfaro had saved a penalty.

Vorobey doubled the lead after 35 minutes when he collected a pass from Vladyslav Vaschuk before lobbing Alfaro.

Kalinichenko headed the third five minutes before the break after Alfaro had only got a hand to Ruslan Rotan's shot.

Both coaches rotated their squads in the second half but the fourth goal came after 56 minutes when Belyk collected a pass from Oleh Gusev and scored.

Ecuador were beaten in their final warm-up game, 2-1 by FYR Macedonia.

Carlos Tenorio, who was later stretchered off with a leg injury, put the South Americans ahead but goals from Goran Maznov and Igor Mitreski, the latter from the penalty spot, gave Macedonia a surprise win.

Iran secured a morale-boosting draw against fellow qualifiers Croatia.

The visitors twice led through goals from Ali Karimi and Arash Borhani but Croatia earned a share of the spoils with a Dado Prso strike and a last-minute Marko Babic penalty.

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