Last year Wales lost 3-2 away to Moldova, who have won two of their five matches.Yesterday's result was Albania's first victory for almost three years. Officials feared that widespread use of the heaters would overload the former Soviet republic's already straining electrical resources.Wales moved to the bottom of group seven after Albania earned their first points by beating Moldova 3-0 in Tirana yesterday. Shota Arveladze picked up a pass from Georgy Kinkladze but, with only the German goalkeeper Andreas Koepke to beat, he drove the ball into the side netting.Markus Babbel could have put the match beyond doubt for the Germans but his 54th minute effort from 18 yards hit the post.The game had been evenly contested before the Tottenham striker's first goal, but after his second the Georgians appeared to lose heart.The cash-strapped Georgian energy department asked Tbilisi residents not to use electric heaters during the match. Germany's victory maintained their 100 per cent record in qualifying group seven. The 75,000 Georgians who packed Paychadze Stadium in Tbilisi filed out of the ground in stunned silence after their team lost what had been billed locally as the "match of the century".Klinsmann scored in the 24th minute following a corner and added a second after a goalmouth scramble in the 45th minute.Georgia, who had won their last two matches against Wales and Albania, missed a chance to equalise in the 26th minute.

Though he rested during much of the fourth quarter, Jordan produced some play worthy of his earlier days. He wrapped up the match by setting up the winning basket in the final seconds, eluding a double-team to pass to Bill Wennington under the basket "Don't count on me to shoot it every time," he said "I can pass.". FOOTBALL Two goals by Jrgen Klinsmann gave Germany a 2-0 victory away to Georgia yesterday and kept his side on course for a place in the European Championship in England next summer. A Williams spokesman said: "The fuel is handled by Elf, and their tests have come out satisfactorily.". BASKETBALL Michael Jordan returned to record-setting ways yesterday, scoring 55 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 113-111 victory over the New York Knicks in New York. "I think it's starting to come back to me," said Jordan, who had looked a little rusty in his first four games back in the National Basketball Association after a 21-month absence.In the fifth, he was superb.

MOTOR RACING Formula One's governing body, the FIA, has set 13 April as the date to hear the appeals into the disqualifications of Michael Schumacher and David Coulthard at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Schumacher, the defending world champion, and Coulthard finished one-two in Sunday's season-opening race in So Paulo, but were disqualified five hours later when Schumacher's Benetton-Renault and Coulthard's Williams-Renault were both found to be using irregular fuel. The hearing will take place in Paris four days after the next race, the Argentinian Grand Prix. The Williams team said the delay would not affect the team's preparations for the 9 April race. Irwin curled the ball across and for the first time the defenders were lax in their policing of Quinn and the big man, who has been dismayed by his inactivity this season with Manchester City, pounced to score.n. His sight of goal in the 35th minute ended the wait for the first shot aimed at Alan Fettis' territory but even that was mis-hit and easy to counter.There had been so many free-kicks it was inevitable that when the resistance was pierced it would stem from yet another infringement. Kelly got two hands to it but could not deny what was the first goal the North had scored in Dublin against their Irish rivals."We took a stupid chance with a ball across our back four and got punished for it," Charlton complained.

"We had the game won at that stage and I never dreamed we were going to drop a point Then all of a sudden it's gone. I hate March - I would cancel it if I could."That was Charlton's grim reference to a strong wind and a firm surface that had the ball swirling all over the place. To that he could have added the Dutch referee whose fussiness was another factor in preventing the game from attaining any flow or momentum. Another was the resolute opposition determined not to be overrun a second time.The North had coped well with Quinn's aerial prowess and David Kelly's eagerness to mark his first competitive international after 17 caps with something significant. Then in the 73rd minute Paul McGrath made a square pass that found Denis Irwin slow to respond and opened the way for the burgeoning skills of Keith Gillespie, the makeweight in the record Andy Cole transfer, to flourish.The beautifully balanced, alert Newcastle winger had Phil Babb blocking his way but won enough room for the cross which the brawny Crystal Palace striker twisted to divert towards goal. However, it took just enough of a deflection to send it tantalisingly wide - a save as scrappy as his first had been sublime, but perhaps the one which takes Scotland over the border in the summer of '96.RUSSIA: (1-2-5-2): Kharin (Chelsea); Nikiforov (Moscow Spartak); Khlestov (Moscow Spartak), Kovtun (Dynamo Moscow); Kanchelskis (Manchester United), Karpin (Real Sociedad), Onopko (Moscow Spartak), Dbrovolski (Atletico Madrid), Shalimov (Duisburg); Radchenko (Racing Santander), Kiriakov (Karlsruhe). Substitutes: Pisarev (Moscow Spartak) for Radchenko 57, Radimov (CSKA Moscow) for Shalimov 69.SCOTLAND (5-3-2): Leighton (Hibernian); McKimmie (Aberdeen), Calderwood (Tottenham), Hendry (Blackburn), McLaren (Rangers), Boyd (Celtic); McStay (Celtic), McAllister (Leeds), Collins (Celtic); McGinlay (Bolton), Jackson (Hibernian).